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Channel Islands Folklore

Folklore of the Channel Islands, where Norman French and its island dialects lived beside English: customs, legends, witchcraft, charms, songs and proverbs, with the French texts kept as recorded.

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Texts

Guernsey Folk-Lore — Edgar MacCullochSir Edgar MacCulloch’s collection of the folklore of Guernsey (his preface is dated 1864), edited after his death by Edith F. Carey and published in 1903: festival and local customs, the dolmens and holy wells, fairies, goblins, the Devil, ghosts, witches and the island’s witch trials, charms, stories, nursery rhymes and proverbs, with much in Guernsey French and old French, Carey’s added notes, and an appendix of Guernsey songs and ballads.