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Popular Belief in Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

A study of the folklore of people living in Leicester, based on interviews with friends, acquaintances and other informants, including residents of a local Old Peoples' Home. The study contains six ch...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants from Leicesterrelate customs and beliefs known to them: flowers in hospital, new moon, shoes, crossed knives, hawthorn, howling dogs, cutlery, wart cures, death omens, divination (f...

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