201:, dated 1584, with many additions, a few repetitions and mention of many creatures that do not appear elsewhere. While the fact that the tracts contain creatures that are not referenced anywhere else could indicate that Denham had researched the subject more thoroughly than others of his time, a lack of other sources makes some think this unlikely despite Denham being regarded as a trustworthy source of information.
878:, its spectre, or its knocker. The churches, churchyards, and crossroads were all haunted. Every green lane had its boulder-stone on which an apparition kept watch at night. Every common had its circle of fairies belonging to it. And there was scarcely a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit!"
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3rd edit., beautifully printed in colours, with many engravings. One hundred and ten pages. June, 1851. Newcastle upon Tyne, imprinted by George
Bouchier Richardson, at the sign of the River God Tyne, 38, Clayton-st., West. Cr. 8vo., a few copies printed in
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of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in
England that had not its own peculiar ghost. Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its
943:"§7. "Gyre Carling". XI. The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21"
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Part III. «Rare and
Popular Rhymes, Proverbs, Sayings, Characteristics, Reproaches, &c., &c., relating to the Inhabitants of certain Towns and Villages; and also to particular Families and Individuals in the County of
205:"What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with
35:, a Yorkshire tradesman. Most of the original tracts were published with fifty copies (although some of them with twenty-five or even thirteen copies). The tracts were later re-edited by James Hardy for the
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Part II. «A collection of Rare and
Popular Rhymes, Proverbs, Sayings of Reproach and Praise, &c., &c., relating to the City of Durham and its Inhabitants.»
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Pages 51 to 78, May, 1851. Fifty copies. Inscribed «To Sir
Cuthbert Sharp.» Civ. Dunelm. Imprinted by Will. Elliott Duncan & Sons, in Saddler-street.
77:«A Myth of Mildridge; a story anent a Witless Wight's Adventures with the Mildridge Fairies in ye Bishoprick of Durham; now more than two centuries ago.»
63:«A collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings related to the Seasons, the Weather, and Agricultural pursuits. Gathered chiefly from oral tradition.»
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Part VI. «Rare and
Popular Rhymes, Sayings, Characteristics, &c., &c., relating to certain Towns and Villages in the County of Durham.»
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Pages 13 to 28, January 1851. Fifty copies. Inscribed «To ye Clargy, Lawers, and Olde Maids, of ye afore-named Cittie, &c.»
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2nd edit. Twenty-four pages, Decem. 1850. Novo-Castro-Sup-Tynam. Printed by M. & M.W.Lambert, Grey-st. Fifty copies.
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Eight pages, September 1858. Fifty copies. Civ. Dunelm. Imprinted by Will. Duncan & Sons, in
Saddler-street, 1859.
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Part I. «A collection of
Bishoprick Rhymes, Proverbs and Sayings, in connexion with the Border and Feudal periods.»
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961:"The Fairy Mythology: Celts and Cymry: The Dance and Song of the Korred"
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The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore by Michael Aislabie Denham..
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and imprinted in two volumes in 1892 and 1895. It is possible that
979:"Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Thrummy Cap"
911:"J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment"
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A Broadside of three columns, August 1849. Fifty copies.
31:, fifty-four in all, collected between 1846 and 1859 by
461:, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries,
1019:The Denham tracts : a collection of folklore
94:A Broadside of two pages. Oct. 1849. Fifty copies
913:. Taylor & Francis – via Google Books.
108:1st edit. Six pages, January 1850. Fifty copies.
49:from the list of fairies in the Denham Tracts.
925:"Reginald Scot's collection of magical texts"
8:
909:Drout, Michael D. C. (February 17, 2007).
100:IV. Slogans; and War and Gathering Cries.
105:(1) «Slughorns of the North of England.»
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137:Twelve pages, July, 1850. Fifty copies.
119:(3) «Slogans of the North of England.»
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997:"Things That Go Bump in the Night"
143:VI. Co: Pal: Durham. – Five Parts.
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899:London: Folklore Society (1892).
1036:Book series introduced in 1846
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313:, mock-beggars, mum-pokers,
357:, spoorns, men-in-the-oak,
191:List of spirits and fairies
53:List of the original tracts
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929:www.esotericarchives.com
811:corpse lights or candles
198:Discoverie of Witchcraft
441:, Tom-pokers, tutgots,
33:Michael Aislabie Denham
186:and 42 more pamphlets.
1046:Northumbrian folklore
1056:Works about folklore
965:www.sacred-texts.com
669:, freiths, freits,
895:James Hardy, ed.,
525:, bolls, caddies,
683:Jinny-burnt-tails
603:friars' lanthorns
563:hob-and-lanthorns
411:Meg-with-the-wads
263:Robin-Goodfellows
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733:, alholdes,
601:, robinets,
589:, hudskins,
587:gallybeggars
519:bull-beggars
511:hob-thrushes
215:Bloody Bones
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759:leprechauns
687:hell-hounds
649:, miffies,
571:Peg-powlers
565:, gringes,
561:, patches,
483:colt-pixies
479:yeth-hounds
471:changelings
443:snapdragons
371:melch-dicks
363:fire-drakes
345:, calcars,
287:hobhoulards
243:shellycoats
223:ignis fatui
217:, spirits,
1030:Categories
883:References
851:whitewomen
847:nicknevins
783:succubuses
751:cluricauns
747:lubberkins
715:hobgoblins
709:, grants,
695:boggleboes
685:, dudmen,
671:gy-carlins
611:cauld-lads
583:kidnappers
551:gallytrots
503:shag-foals
487:Tom-thumbs
415:old-shocks
359:hell-wains
301:-thrusts,
291:boggy-boes
283:hobgoblins
275:breaknecks
273:, scrags,
247:scarecrows
235:black dogs
1051:Pamphlets
735:mannikins
731:wirrikows
719:brown-men
559:gytrashes
455:conjurers
423:pad-foots
391:Elf-fires
355:incubuses
259:barguests
25:pamphlets
819:mahounds
791:banshees
775:korigans
761:, kors,
707:portunes
627:bugaboos
567:boguests
543:boggarts
495:boggarts
489:, black-
431:pictrees
407:rawheads
399:knockers
377:, kitty-
343:centaurs
311:warlocks
279:fantasms
269:, night-
239:spectres
231:bugbears
227:brownies
163:Durham.»
29:folklore
863:cutties
855:fairies
831:sprites
807:doubles
787:shadows
779:sylvans
771:puckles
767:korreds
755:kobolds
743:korreds
739:follets
727:dunnies
711:hobbits
675:pigmies
667:swarths
651:buckies
639:nickies
619:goblins
607:silkies
595:madcaps
591:nickers
541:, flay-
535:wraiths
523:bygorns
497:, scar-
475:redcaps
459:thurses
379:witches
339:tritons
319:urchins
307:kelpies
303:fetches
295:dobbies
255:wizards
251:witches
211:boggles
869:, and
867:nisses
865:, and
843:sibyls
839:fiends
827:gnomes
815:scrats
723:cowies
703:redmen
699:bogies
679:nixies
663:guests
659:sylphs
655:ghouls
647:waiths
599:trolls
547:fiends
467:mormos
451:spunks
447:sprets
439:dwarfs
435:giants
427:pixies
347:nymphs
335:sirens
323:satyrs
219:demons
207:ghosts
46:hobbit
876:bogle
835:fates
823:trows
763:mares
643:nacks
635:cowes
633:, or
575:pucks
539:waffs
531:brags
527:bomen
419:ouphs
403:elves
375:larrs
331:fauns
631:kows
579:fays
555:imps
515:bugs
499:bugs
491:bugs
351:imps
327:pans
271:bats
267:hags
123:4to.
86:III.
19:The
299:hob
72:II.
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