Tradition Today

No. 7

April 2018

ISSN 2050-0920

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SIMON YOUNG
True Fairy Stories? Nineteenth century Irish fairylore

 


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SANJAY SIRCAR
The Motif of a Magic Staff/Club/Stick in Maerchen: in a flexible numerical series of no fixed number; semi-personified; solo and semi-personified in a modern fantasy novel; possibly with one Indic source in Tantric practice; with more than one function; and in motif-clusters with various companions

 


20-33

J. B. SMITH
William Henderson's Folk-Lore and Thomas Wilkie's "Old Rites": A comparative approach

 


34-44

WILLIAM SAYERS
Medieval Anglo-French, English, and Scots Names for Gulls

 


45-50

J. B. SMITH
Guardian of the Wild and Fairy in the Sack: A traditional narrative viewed in its wider contex
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51-60

FIONNUALA CARSON WILLIAMS
What's In a Name? The underlying narrative behind contemporary names for small businesses in Belfast, and their use of forms common in oral tradition


61-67


WILLIAM SAYERS
The Etymology of English
toad: Effects of the Celtic substrate?


68-73


J. B. SMITH
Putting the Owl to Roost: A traditional Newfoundland prank and some European analogues


74-78


Notes and Queries
(1) Pixilated - A Somerset word? (Simon Young and Peter Muise)
(2)
Brautin (J. B. Smith)



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