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The list of contents of the book
by
J. Horsfall Turner
Please note that this index is given in good faith as a
guide to the contents of the book, but there may be errors in
both the original index and the transcription of the index.
Numbers in brackets give the number of pages referenced when greater than one.
Yorkshire Folk Lore, Vol I
- Part I
- Mother Shipton
- Spiders
- Selling Warts
- Robin Hood's gravestone
- Haunted Houses
- Holy Wells
- A Village Game
- Prophet Wroe
- Anecdotes
- Cromwells
- High Abbotside and Hardrow
- Poems
- The Calder Vale Dialect
- Part II
- Prophet Wroe
- Burials in woolens
- Cures for warts and for a Sore Mouth
- Duck
- Finis
- Arkengarthdale
- Prison Bars, or Scotch
- Fair Imogene
- Spiders
- Ballads
- Witches
- Notes on High Abbotside
- Etymology
- Wassailing
- Christmas Customs
- Carols
- Devil's Knell
- Mother Shipton
- Part III
- Bolling Hall and its Ghost
- Bolling Ghost Ballad
- Folk Lore Notes
- Fair Imogene
- Fire Worship
- Bretton Hall Ballad
- George Daniel of Beswick
- Woodsome Ghost
- Hop-Scotch
- Bristol, a game
- Seemerwater Ballad
- Talismanic Cure - Potato
- Part IV
- York Minster Screen in North Riding Dialect
- Yorkshire Centenarians
- Henry Jenkins
- Part V
- Arkengarthdale
- Striking the luck
- Yorkshire Anecdotes
- Paper Hall Ghost
- Hanging together
- Popular Errors
- Lahpe Hoil
- Popular Rhymes
- Poor Man's Bane
- Yorkshire Dialects
- William Darney and his hymn
- Part VI
- Superstitions
- Wife Sales
- Fuffen
- Aerial Phenomena
- Batley Legend
- Dewsbury Legend
- Curious Custom
- Cross of St John
- A Joke
- Strange appearances
- Witches
- Witch Box
- Golden Ball
- Sheffield and Airedale Folk-lore
- Living in Pudsey
- Sisters of Beverley(Ballad)
- Job Senior (Ballad)
- Arms of Hull
- Calder Vale Words
- Part VII
- The Cruel Unkle, with Ballad
- The Sisters of Beverley
- Palm Sunday Custom
- Notable Yorkshire Characters
- Advice to Workmen
- A Yorkshire Bite
- Smithereens
- Calling it sharp
- Local Preachers
- Peace Egg - a Play
- Part VIII
- Yorkshire Speyks
- Yorkshire Centenarians
- Woman's Will in Olden Times
- Wife Sales
- Local Preachers
- Easter Eggs
- Soothill Tradition
- Rhymes on Yorkshire Place Names
- Robin Hood, a Scarborough Fisherman; with Ballad
- Fisher Lad of Whitby - a Ballad
- On some nursery Rhymes
- Part IX
- Yorkshire Anthology
- Herbert Knowles
- Sprotborough Hospitality
- York Minster
- Yorkshire Bite
- Gross Darkness
- Yorkshire Centenarians
- Hunting Song, to Sir H. Goodricke
- Jack Pearson, the rhyming Oddity
- The Hal of Kirklees
- Part X
- Christmas Carol
- Robin Hood
- Herbert Knowles
- Yorkshire Ballads
- All Fool's Day
- Pomfrette Election
- Yorkshire Anthology
- Whig and Tory
- Legends and Traditions of Wells
- Centenarians
- Part XI
- Holy Wells
- Spectre hunts
- Man and Hounds
- Gabriel Hounds
- Hal of Bradford
- Pyrah the Prophet
- Gipsy Charm
- Prophet Wroe
- New Years' Weddings
- Semerwater Ballad
- Burial Customs
- A Drop at York
- Girls' Game
- Priestley Anecdote
- Mischief Neet
- Yorkshire Speyks
- Part XII
- Bradford Waits
- Runswick
- Whitby Arms
- Typical Yorkshiremen
- Centenarians
- Rayner
Yorkshire Notes & Queries with Folk Lore (Vol II)
- Part XIII
- York Gaol delivery 1775
- Burning to death
- Criminal statistics
- Woollen trade 1726
- Wakefield prison 1605
- Huddersfield Cavalry, 1817
- Militia
- Poem on Ingleborough District
- Langfellow and Holling Hall
- Jackson and Early Baptists
- Jollie's Sheffield Non-conformist register
- Yorkshire &c., New Books.
- Aram
- Grindletonians
- Washburn Place Names.
- Holy Well
- Centenarians
- The Hal of Arthington
- Warley May Pole
- Flambro' Nominy
- Yorkshire Chap books
- Mirfield Hall
- Part XV
- Knaresborough Folk Lore
- Saxon Grit
- Keighley Quaker Register of Births
- Beaumont Tradition
- Granny Hall
- Barmston
- Hull Mansion House
- Hilston
- Brandesburton
- Early History of Howley
- Congregational Churches
- Notices of New Books
- Part XVII
- Keighley Quaker Register
- Congregational Churches
- Howley and the Saviles
- Leeds Free Trade 1645
- Greenland Sailor's Strike
- Winestead Church
- Nunburnholme Cross
- Canute's York Coins
- Dove Cote Cave
- Honley Parish Church
- Burning Women
- Genealogical wants
- Old Chap Books
- Notices of New Books
- Sherburn School Register
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