The Folk-Lore of North Staffordshire
THE FOLK-LORE OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE An annotated bibliography 2018 Version 1.4 Additions from version 1.3: BLAGG (1902) | BUCKLAND (1896) | CARRINGTON (1865) | DAKEYNE (1860) | HADEN (2018) | KEY (2015) Additions from version 1.2: BLAKE | BURNE (1896, iii) | BURNE (1914, expanded) | DAY | ELLIOT (1988) | HELM | HOWITT, M. (1845, 1859) | KASKE | MACHIN | SHIRLEY | THOMAS | WARDLE | WELLS | WRIGHT Additions from version 1.1: BERESFORD | DEACON 1 ANON. Legends of the moorlands and forest in north Staffordshire, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., c.1860. [The Chieftain; Caster’s Bridge; The Heritage; Lud Church; A Legend of Lud’s Church. Also issued in Leek: Hall and Son, 1860.] ANON. “Suggested Folk Museum for Staffordshire”, Museums Journal 29, 1930, page 288. ALFORD, V. “Correspondence”, Folk-lore journal, 1953, pages 364-365. [Detailed note on the Abbots Bromley horn dance, from someone who saw it performed three times.] BENNETT, G. and ASHMAN, G. “Charlotte Sophia Burne: Shropshire Folklorist, First Woman President of the Folklore Society, and First Woman Editor of Folklore. Part 1: A Life and Appreciation”, Folklore journal, Volume 111, Issue 1, 2000, pages 1-21. [On the life and work of a key collector of folklore and folk-song, also very active in North Staffordshire until c.1895. The short “Part 2: Update and Preliminary Bibliography”, followed in Folklore journal, Volume 112, Issue 1, 2001, pages 105-106.] BERESFORD, W. “Notes on a Portion of the Northern Borders of Staffordshire: Superstitions”, The Reliquary, 1866-67. [Collected from the Moorlands. Farm superstitions. “The belief in fairies, by the way, still lingers with some here, and in witches with many”.
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