The Romanitshels' Didakais' and folk-lore gazette, reflecting also the opinions of tinkers, travellers, gawjos, show-folki and posh-rats.

Date:: [1912?]

Credit: The Romanitshels' Didakais' and folk-lore gazette, reflecting also the opinions of tinkers, travellers, gawjos, show-folki and posh-rats. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$(1) What Folk-Lore is. (2) Superstitious Belief and Practice. (a) Superstitions connected with great natural objects. (b) Tree and plant superstitions. (c) Animal superstitions. (d) Goblindom. (e) Witchcraft. (f) Leechcraft (or folk-medicine). {g) Magic and divination. (h) Beliefs relating to future life. (t) Superstitions generally. (3) Traditional Customs. (a) Festival customs. (b) Ceremonial customs. (c) Games. (d) Local customs. (4) Traditional Narratives: (a) Nursery tales or marchen: hero tales, drolls, fables and apologues. (,b) Creation, deluge, fire and doom myths. (c) Ballads and songs, (d) Place legends and traditions. (5) Folk Sayings. (a) Jingles, nursery rhymes, riddles, &c. (6) Proverbs. (ic) Nicknames, place rhymes. I beg the reader’s pardon for such a lengthy list, but the truth is, I know no more complete or useful summary, and as the volume is somewhat rare, my excuse must be in favour of its greater publicity. . . Perhaps chief interest in the Folk-Lore revival is centred on Folk-song and it is not hard to seek the reason. The work of the Folk-song Society ,n editing and arranging from the vast material collected by its members from Sussex,^Surrey, Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Dorset and other Counties has evidence in the issue of some sixteen parts of its Journal, making I should think four sumptious volumes was too late to collect Folk Songs. The last issue of the Folk some hundreds of airs and tunes, and all this, despite the remark oLen made that t or some 105 airs collected by Miss Tolm.e in the Western Highlands of Scotland. These are classified as Songs of Rest and Recreation (Cradle Songs, Nurses Songs,. and Vocal Dance Music), Songs of Labour (waulk.ng songs, reaping, roving and m.llnng songs), Ancient Heroic Lays, Songs to Chiefs and others, Laments, Love Lyr.cs, &c., a most worthy collection, admirably supplementing the work of Mrs. Kennedy Fraser; whose “Songs of the Hebrides” was perhaps the first attempt in later years to garner the folk-music of the Gael. , . . *v,pv 8 The “Songs of Labour” mentioned above are exceedingly interesting as they give us the connecting link between modern and primaeval times in Uie art of folk- imposition. Prof. Gummere of Harvard University a worthy successor to Pr^ Child of Ballad fame has told us, how on the remote Faroe Islands, the old d$