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Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651

[Undated newspaper cutting titled: A giant's devices].

Bodies : sex, violence, disease, and death in contemporary legend / Gillian Bennett.

Legend and belief : dialectics of a folklore genre / Linda Dégh.

Grisly relics of the dead : where some gruesome memorials are to be found.

Ancient tales and folklore of Japan / by Richard Gordon Smith.

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Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651

Bodies : sex, violence, disease, and death in contemporary legend / Gillian Bennett.

Legend and belief : dialectics of a folklore genre / Linda Dégh.

Grisly relics of the dead : where some gruesome memorials are to be found.

Ancient tales and folklore of Japan / by Richard Gordon Smith.