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Add. MS b/37/337
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Copy letter from W. S. Weeks to Sir James Frazer
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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1 item; typescript copy
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Westwood, Clitheroe. Dated 2nd February, 1922 - Gives some local instances of folklore mentioned in 'Folk-lore in the Old Testament': if a younger sibling marries before the elder, the elder dances in stocking feet at the wedding; if a cow aborts a calf, that calf is buried under the gateway by which the cows enter and leave the farmyard to prevent the other cows doing the same; cites a Court Roll of the Manor of Downham near Clitheroe about a case in which a man was prosecuted for refusing to help carry a neighbour's deceased wife to be buried.