Wit, Character, Folklore And Customs Of the North Riding of Yorkshire

About this eBook

Author

Blakeborough, Richard, 1850-1918

Title

Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire With a Glossary of over 4,000 Words and Idioms Now in Use

Credits

Produced by Brian Coe, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Folklore -- England -- Yorkshire

Category

Text

eBook-No.

62999

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62999

Release Date

August 21, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Wit Character, Folklore & Customs OF THE NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.PREFACE
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.THE YORKSHIRE FOLK-SPEECH IS NOT A DIALECT, BUT A LANGUAGE.
8. 8.CHAPTER I YORKSHIRE STORIES OF WIT AND CHARACTER.
9. 9.CHAPTER II WIT AND CHARACTER
10. 10.CHAPTER III WIT AND CHARACTER— continued .
11. 11.CHAPTER IV WIT AND CHARACTER— continued
12. 12.CHAPTER V WIT AND CHARACTER— continued
13. 13.CHAPTER VI CUSTOMS OF THE YEAR AND FOLKLORE
14. 14.CHAPTER VII CUSTOMS OF COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE, BIRTH, AND DEATH — Superstition. — Birth. — Death.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII OMENS, CHARMS, RECIPES
16. 16.CHAPTER IX WITCHCRAFT
17. 17.CHAPTER X WITCHCRAFT— continued
18. 18.CHAPTER XI SOME CHARACTERISTIC YORKSHIRE SAYINGS
19. 19.CHAPTER XII IDIOMS AND THE PECULIAR USE OF CERTAIN WORDS
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII SIMILES, PROVERBS, AND SAYINGS
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV CHILDREN‘S LORE
22. 22.CHAPTER XV ODD SCRAPS OF OLD YORKSHIRE, ETC.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI A FEW SIMPLE HINTS ON THE GRAMMAR OF THE FOLK-SPEECH
24. 24.GLOSSARY OF ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND NORTH RIDING WORDS
25. 25.CONCLUDING REMARKS
26. 26.Untitled
27. 27.Untitled
28. 28.FOOTNOTES
29. 29.LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS

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