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Add. MS c/61/28 · Item · 21 Mar. 1901
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Farnborough Lodge, Farnborough, R.S.O., Kent - Has been reading the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' and offers additional stories of a stranger as the corn spirit, keeping a boar in the stable, Varro's anointed feet, the swan woman, the cedar of Lebanon, the 'tamaniu', and mistletoe in oak; heard Miss Kingsley's paper at the British Association about the secret societies of Africa.

Add. MS c/61/29 · Item · 18 July 1906
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Farnborough Lodge, Farnborough, R.S.O., Kent - Tells him of the practice of dropping pins in wells encountered at Alderley Edge near Manchester, and dough cake at Aldborough in Suffolk made in the shape of a fish, called a 'kitchel'.

Add. MS b/37/360 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Farnborough Lodge, Farnborough, R.S.O, Kent. Dated 18 July 1906 - Tells him of the practice of dropping pins in wells encountered at Alderley Edge near Manchester, and dough cake at Aldborough in Suffolk made in the shape of a fish, called a 'kitchel'.

Add. MS b/37/361 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Farnborough Lodge, Farnborough, R.S.O, Kent. Dated 21 March, 1901 - Has been reading the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' and offers additional stories of a stranger as the corn spirit, keeping a boar in the stable, Varro's anointed feet, the swan woman, the cedar of Lebanon, the 'tamaniu', mistletoe in oak, heard Miss Kingsley's paper at the British Association about the secret societies of Africa.