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The Chime Child

or Somerset Singers Being An Account of Some of Them and Their Songs Collected Over Sixty Years

By: Ruth L. Tongue

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The Chime Child

or Somerset Singers Being An Account of Some of Them and Their Songs Collected Over Sixty Years

By: Ruth L. Tongue

Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal accounts and documents their lyrics and their tunes, which are all together at the end of the volume.

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115

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Routledge

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1317357655

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9781317357650

Green Hills of Magic

West Virginia Folktales from Europe

By: Ruth Ann Musick

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Green Hills of Magic

West Virginia Folktales from Europe

By: Ruth Ann Musick

In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories—never before published in book form—in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.

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329

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813164176

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9780813164175

Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore)

By: Ruth Tongue

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Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore)

By: Ruth Tongue

In this book, first published in 1970, Ruth L. Tongue has collected a number of county folk tales recorded by her from childhood onwards, from old people, village children and farm round-the-fire sessions. Many of the beliefs embodied in the gipsy and witchcraft tales are still in practice today among the travelling people and locally ‘gifted’ healers. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like Crooker, and the ‘uncanny’ Black Dog makes his appearance in more than one tale. The collection includes several of the long fireside tales which would be told on succeeding evenings on winter nights round the kitchen fire, and rhozzums from various localities.

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185

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Routledge

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1000155986

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9781000155983

God Made a Tongue for You

By: Ruth Martin

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God Made a Tongue for You

By: Ruth Martin

The tongue is a useful rough muscle located at the bottom of your mouth. It helps you to be able to enjoy your foods as you chew them, and when your food comes into contact with all your taste buds, it creates an explosion of flavors. The tongue can also be used for proper speech, either by using it to glorify God or using it to kill and destroy, which you will find in the book of James in the Bible.

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WestBow Press

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1973610094

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The Chime Child

The Chime Child

Green Hills of Magic

Green Hills of Magic

Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore)

Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore)

God Made a Tongue for You

God Made a Tongue for You

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