The British Columbia Folklore Society.

“B.C.FOLKLORE”
The Journal of the Society.

“The Editor,”
B.C. Folklore,
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Please note that all the details of collection of an item are expected, and if it's a song, then the tune is needed. Suggestions for content are welcome. While our main language is English, we will readily accept (and even print) correspondence in French; and for folklore items, we will try to reproduce the original language.

• A, Wa, Willie see: Hey Bonnie Lassie, 17.46
• “African Oral History Motif, An” (RMB), 9.14
• Allies, Jabez: On the Ancient British & Roman Antiquities... (review note), 7.15
• Anthropomorphic (body-part) maps 19.26
• Australian Colloquialism, 23.20
• Axe, faller's, belief about, 7.19
• “B.C. Peoples - Some Sources” (Dave Spalding), 10.23
• Baikal, 5.14
• Bains and Bannocks 11.7
• Ballad, 6.13
• Baikal, 5.14
• Ballantyne, Anne:
  • The Raincoast Kitchen, 6.2;
  • “Wart Cures”, 10.5
• Ballantyne, Mike:
  • “A Brief Look at a Motif from African Oral History”, 9.14
  • analysis of song, Fishing Grounds, 2.14
  • “Caribbean Indian Folktales” (review), 22.44
  • “Crossing the Line: A Nautical Mummer’s Play — Part I”, 18.14
  • “Crossing the Line: A Nautical Mummer’s Play — Part II”, 19.11
  • “Death of Tangaroa, The” (with motifs - an Easter Island Legend), 9.20
  • “Lost Gold Mine of the Cowichans” (with motifs), 9.5
  • “Lost Polson Mine” (with motifs), 6.5
  • “The Lost Treasure of 108 Mile House” (with motifs), 4.7
  • “Lost Treasure of Savary Island, The” 21.65
  • “The Motif Index: what it is, what it does” 2.5; and bibliography, 12.3
  • Motif numbers; suggested additions to the Indexes, 12.4
  • on “Green”, 5.8
  • on the Society Library, 3.4
  • “Seal Husband tales, The” 24.8
  • “Seals & “The Bungling Host& legends” 23.7
  • “Self-Moving Canoes of the Pacific Northwest”, 22.5
  • Reviews:
    • Boas, Franz, Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America (q.v.), 17.67
    • Calt, Stephen, Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary, 23.27
  • “Rowland's Scotty Creek Gold” (with motif analysis), 8.26
  • Work-in-Progress (update) with:
    • “The Story of Ten Brothers and the Sea Lion” (Cowichan legend), 16.20
    • “Night Hunter and Day Hunter” (Kwakiutl Legend), 17.56
    • “Seal Husband tales, The” 24.8
    • “Seals & “The Bungling Host& legends” 23.7
    • “Self-Moving Canoes of the Pacific Northwest”, 22.5
• Ballantyne, R. Michael (see Ballantyne, Mike(
• R. Michael Ballantyne & Murray Shoolbraid:
  • “The English Folkmusic 7”, 45 rpm recordings from the “Kenneth C. Savory Collection” of the BCFS, on the accompanying CD”, 20.5
• bannocks, 11.7
• Barbeau: Marius Barbeau Medal Award (see Thomas, Phil 18.2)
• Barbeau’s Folklore Network (Bouliane) 19.3
• Barney, Gord:
  • “Eyebrow Edwards”, 6.11
  • “Plug Your Ears!”, 9.2
  • “Gas Sucks”, 11.44
  • [Gord Barney's Website]
• barnie pickers, 4.2
• barrel organ, 3.15
• beliefs, see axe, blackberries, birds, black cat, face-pulling, horses, ravens,
  • An Unusual Name Superstition 19.59
• Bernson, Becky (1953-2000) [Summers], 13.3
• Bibliography of British Folklore, 2.3, 5.3
• Bibliography of Slavic Folklore, 8.16
• Biographies of Journal Contributors:
  • Ballantyne, Mike 16.29
  • Black, Catherine 20.69
  • Bouliane, Sandria P. 19.65
  • Burne, John MBE MD 20.69
  • Degraaf, Art 15.57
  • Graber, Paddy 15.57; 19.65
  • Gregory, E. David 17.69
  • Guigne, Anna Kearney 15.57
  • Hall, Steven 16.29
  • Hamilton, Tark 18.59
  • King, Heather 17.69
  • Monk, Katelyn 14,13
  • Oscar, Eric 17.69
  • Postans, Laurie 16.29
  • Rajagopalan, C.R. 16.29
  • Russell, Jack 19.65
  • Sandler, Helena 14.7
  • Shoolbraid, Murray 16.29
  • Sneyd, Elizabeth 15.57
  • Storz, Peggy 18.59
  • Swierenga, Sabine 16.29
  • van de Wal, Hilda 15.57
  [note: brief biographies of contributors was not begun until issue No. 14 and a formal list was not started until the subsequent Issue]
• birds:
  • beliefs about, 9.15
  • crow, 18.55
  • mergansers, 11.14
  • ravens, 7.19
  • Some Historical, Folk Names for Wild Birds in B.C. Part 1, 24.34
• black cat, 4.9
• Black, Catherine: Calico (review), 20.69
• Blackberries 18.3
• “Bladder-Head Boy” (Kaska folktale with motifs), 12.11
• Blair, W. & Meine, F. J. Half Horse Half Alligator (review), 9.19
• Blow the Man Down, (a West Coast version) (song: w. & m.) 18.44
• blason populaire, 4.11
• Boas, Franz, Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas,
  • see: Boas, Franz, Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America.
• Boas, Franz, Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America (translated by Dietrich Bertz. Editied and Annotated by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy), 17.67
• book reviews see reviews
• Bouliane, Sandria P. "Barbeau’s Folklore Network" 19.3
• “Boundary Question, The / The Pig War” (Thomas), 9.7
• Bourne, Ken, “The Murder Mystery of the 108 Hotel”, 4.5
• Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares (review), 6.20
• Peter Buchan MS.,
  • Secret Songs of Silence. (see: Shoolbraid, Murray 18.37. see also “Editorial”, 20.1)
• bull prick, 3.13, 4.3
• Burne, John MBE MD: “Not Forgotten: a clarification of some references made in “Forgotten Folklorist: Charlotte Burne and Shropshire Song” (BCF 18, pp. 4-13)” 20.35
• Buryatia, 5.14
• Camp Point Logging Spread (poem) (Ruth Dickson) 11.29
• Can ye mak a Hielanman? (rhyme), 4.18
• “Canada's War Cake” recipe, 2.8
• Canadian Journal of Traditional Music (vol. 24), review, 7.3
• Canadien errant, Un, 12.24
• cante-fable, 5.17
• Carson Kids, The, 10.14
• cat, black, 4.9
• censorship, 4.11
• C'est au champ de bataille, 12.23
• Chanson de Louis Riel, 12.23
• Charm: definition (Shoolbraid), 13.5
• chicken, how to steal a sleeping, 7.19
• Chiloé legend: “El Cuchivilu”, 19.1
• “Chinaman”, 6.8
• Chukchi Folklore, 13.15
• clam diggers, 4.3
• Coast Salish 11.30
• Colcannon described, 16.19
• “Cosmology and Culture” (Katelyn Monk), 15.8
• Cowichan legend, “The Story of Ten Brothers and the Sea Lion”, 16.20
• Cray, Erotic Muse (rev.), 3.12
• “Crossing the Line: A Nautical Mummer’s Play — Part I”, (Ballantyne) 18.14
• “Crossing the Line: A Nautical Mummer’s Play — Part II”, (Ballantyne) 19.11
• crow: rhyme spoken to predict the future (Scottish) 18.55
• Culture, etc. (Shoolbraid), 15.6
• Cultus Lake, 1.4
• “Death and Resurrection of Kamachavelan, The” (A Paraya Folktale) (tr. Vattamattam) 11.41
• “Death of Tangaroa, The” (Easter Island legend), 9.20
• de Cosmos, Amour (ghost of?), 14.26
• ‘Deerwood‘:
  • “Us and Them” Some Thoughts about Folk Geography, 23.21
  • YOU CAN’T PRINT THAT! Censorship and self censorship, 24.35
• definitions: fishwife, 18.28; folk belief - ballad, 6.13; folktale, 7.5; Märchen, 7.8; myth, 7.8; jest, 7.9
• Degrading Tale of 1970, The (song) (Graber) (w. & m.) 10.3
• Degraff, Art (1933-2002) [Ballantyne], 17.3
• “Determination of the Seasons” (Tahltan legend), 13.44
• Devil's horse, 4.9
• Dickson, Ruth:
  • “Master Mechanic” (biography), 11.21
  • Camp Point Logging Spread (poem), 11.29
• dites, 6.19
• Did You Ever Eat Colcannon (song: w & m.), 16.18
• Dog Soldiers 11.13
• Durham Lockout, The sung to the tune Paddy West, (q.v.) 16.17
• Dwyer, John [1921-1998] (obituary), 8.3
• Dwyer, John: The San Juan Pig (w. & m.), 9.11
• Easter Island, 10.20
• Earthquakes in Japanese Folklore, 24.56
• Edith Fowke [1913-1996] (obituary, by Thomas), 2.2
• EFDSS: Missing, LP Records, 20.41
• “English Folkmusic 7”, 45 rpm recordings from the “Kenneth C. Savory Collection” of the BCFS, on the accompanying CD, The”, 20.5
• “Epic Singing in Khakassia” (Kira Van Deusen), 12.14
• erotic motifs, 4.13
• “Er Soghotokh”, a Yakut epic, 12.32
• ESP, 17.36
• ethnic slur, 4.11
• Evanishen, Raspberry Tree (review), 3.6; Zhabka (review), 8.6
• exemplum, 5.3
• “Eyebrow Edwards” (Gord Barney), 6.11 [Gord Barney's Website]
• Face-Pulling 11.4
• falsification of folklore, 6.15
• Fat lady sings, The, 4.3, 6.23
• Fernie, Legends of:
  • Legend of Fernie, The, 14.20
  • Legend of Griz, The (Mascot of Fernie), 14.21
  • Legend of the Three Sisters, The (Three Sisters Mountain and Proctor Mountain), 14.22
• First Metis - origins of 11.11
• Fishing Grounds (song) by Ken Hamm: 2.14 (with analysis by M. Ballantyne)
• Fleetwood, Jack [1914-1998], 1.2, 4.3
  • (obituary), 8.2
  • The Horselogger's Song (poem), 7.13
  • The Remittance Man (song), 9.13
• Fleetwood, Mabel (1908-2001) [Ballantyne], 17.2
• folk beliefs, 4.9; defined, 6.13
• Folk on Films, 20.3
• “Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore”, electronic communication notice, 21.57
• “Four Great Chiefs of the Wind, The” (Tsimshian legend), 13.45
• Foty, Nadia: “Traditional Ukrainian Funerary Rituals”, 14.1
• Fowke, Edith (obituary), 2.2
• Fraser River Fever, The (Dan Marshall), 10.14
• Fraser Union's CD From There to Here reviewed, 16.26
• “From the Siberian Desk” (Kira Van Deusen), 5.14
• From There to Here (“Fraser Union” CD) reviewed, 16.26
• “Gas Sucks” (Gord Barney), 11.44 [Gord Barney's Website]
• Gibault, George (Editor):
  • Four (or more) Strong Winds of Change, 23.4
  • Conspiracy Theory: the Modern Vampire Myth, 24.4
• ghost, 2.12
• “Gift of the Drum, The” (Helena Sandler), 10.6
• Glenwhorple? 19.10
• Godfrey, Russell:
  • The Phantom Horse of Jordan Meadows, 16.15
• Graber, P.:
  • “An Irish Emigrant's Thoughts about Canada & Folk Heroes”, 10.2 (with song), 10.3
  • Degrading Tale of 1970, The (song: w. & m.), 10.3
  • Did You Ever Eat Colcannon (song with words by Shaun O'Nolan to the tune: One Morning in June), 16.18
  • Hope-Princeton Slide, The (song: w. & m.), 16.16
  • Jenny Summers - The Belle of Rock Creek (song: w.& m.), 15.40
  • Tippy Cat (stick game), 14.24
• Granger, Byrd Howell, 4.7-9 [suggested additions to Granger's Motif Numbers]
• Green Jelly Beans, 22.4
• Gregory, E. David:
  • “Alan Lomax: The European Years, 1950-58”, 17.9
  • “Forgotten Folklorist: Charlotte Burne and Shropshire Song”, 18.4
• green, 5.8
• Hall, Steve: Community Music in Alberta: Some Good Schoolhouse Stuff! (review), 16.24
• Hamber Foundation grant, 7.20
• Hamilton, T.S.:
  • Call of the Cadborosaurus, The (song: w. & m.), 18.33
  • “Cadborosaurus: Survivor from the Deep” (review), 20.51
  • Mayor: “Fossil Legends of the First Americans” (review), 22.41
  • May-Can-Do, The (song: w. & m.), 13.51
• Hamm, Ken, 2.14
• haunted cave 11.9
• haywire, 7.18
• healing lake 11.10
• Hemsworth, Wade (1916-2002), 16.1
• “Hermit, The”, 4.3
• Hey Bonnie Lassie, (song: w.& m.), 17.46
• Home remedies, 9.16
• hoopsnakes 11.18
• Hope-Princeton Slide, The (Graber) (song: w. & m.), 16.16
• Horselogger's Song, The (poem and glossary, Fleetwood), 7.13
• horses, 4.9
• “How the first Helandman of god was maid” (poem), 4.18
• “How April Went to Visit March” Ukrainian Folktale, (w. motifs), 13.16
• How to Steal a Sleeping Chicken (Phil Whittaker), 7.19
• Humans, Gods, and Nature in Paraya Folklore (Sebastian Vattamattam), 14.14
• hummingbirds, 1.3; 14.28
• hurdy-gurdy, 3.15
• I lie on my bed of straw (song), 12.21
• I Love a Cookie / Sausage (song), 4.19
• I'll Eat Nae Mair o' your Cheese (rhyme), 4.16
• I'll No Lie wi' my Mither Nae Mair, 17.47
• Independent Scholars of Asia, 2.13; 13.54
• Index to BCF issues 1-12 (1996-1999), 12.53
• indexes, 5.2
• internet, 4.2
• Internet Goodies, 21.50
• “Irish Emigrant's Thoughts about Canada & Folk Heroes, An” (Graber), 10.3
• “It ain't over till the fat lady sings”, 4.3
• It Happened Ae Nicht (song: w. & m.), 17.54-55
• Jenny Summers - The Belle of Rock Creek (song: w.& m.), 15.40
• jest, 7.9
• John Hielandman (rhyme), 4.17
• Johnson, Vera:
  • Don't Touch This Land (song), 23.18
  • San Miguel (song), 23.19
  • Tom Terrific (song), 23.17
  • Victoria Farewell (song), 23.16
• jokes
  • Elephant Stew (recipe) [shaggy-dog story], 22.23
  • ethnic, 4.11
  • In Case You Missed It..., 22.21
• Julia's Fancy (tune, MS), 6.22
• “Juniper Tree” [Van den Machandelboom Grimm No.47, AT720: note], 5.17
• Kaska folktale, 12.11
• keen, 12.2
• Ketelbinkie [The Kettleboy: with music; words in Dutch & English] submitted by Art Degraaf, 15.42
• Khakass epics, 12.14
• King, Heather: “Experiential Aspects of Waking ESP: the memorates of a mother and daughter”, 17.36
• Kirghiz proverb, 9.3
• Kwakiutl legend “Night Hunter and Day Hunter” 17.56
• lament (definition), 12.2
• Last Letter from Louis Riel (Regina, 15th Nov. 1885), The (song), 12.21
• Lazeo, Laurence Andrew. Lost Treasure in British Columbia, cited, 4.7
• Leach, Maria. Standard Dictionary of Folklore Myth & Legend, 7.10
• “Learning Music Through the Playground Culture” Yurgen Ilaender Project [work in progress], 14.34
• legend, 7.6
• “Legend of Fernie, The”, 14.20
• “Legend of Griz, The”, 14.21
• “Legend of the Three Sisters, The” (Three Sisters Mountain and Proctor Mountain), 14.22
• legends:
  • “Blue-Jay, Ioi his Sister, and Seal” (Chinook), 23.9
  • “Chulyen and the seal” (Tanaina), 23.11
  • “How Creator Went Sealing” (Koryak), 24.8
  • “How Syuna, The Rockfish, Got His Flat Head” (Yahgan, Tierra del Fuego), 24.18
  • “How Yiñe´a-ñe´ut was married to a seal” (Koryak), 24.10
  • “Millalobo” (Chiloe Island, Chile), 24.20
  • “The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerry” (Orkney), 24.14
  • “The MacCodrums of the Seals” (Lewis), 24.12
  • “The Three Daughters of King O’Hara” (Ireland), 24.17
  • “The Wife of Seal” (Coos), 24.24
  • “The Woman who married the Seal” (Coos), 24.22
  • “Raven and the Seal-Club” (Tlingit), 23.10
  • “Raven the Bungling Host” (Haida), 23.8
• “Let them eat cake!”, 7.7
• Library:
  • notice relating to the Vera Johnson song Bald Eagle, 22.26
  • ongoing updates regarding recent additions to the library, are listed in most issues of the Journal.
  • Shoolbraid Donations 2004, 20.62
  • Shoolbraid donations 2008, 22.48
• limericks, 9.18
• Little Playmate (rhyme from the Ilaender Collection), 17.63-67
• Local Legends:
  • “Legend of Fernie, The”, 14.20
  • “Legend of Griz, The”, 14.21
  • “Legend of the Three Sisters, The” (Three Sisters Mountain and Proctor Mountain), 14.22
  • note: see also under “Fernie,” above, for a direct link to these legends on-line.
• loggerisms 2.4, 3.13, 7.18. See also wordlore
• Logging-camp coffee: recipe from David Fleetwood (see BCFS Newsletter No.1 April 2001)
• Lomax, Alan (obituary from The New York Times) [Pareles], 17.5
• “Alan Lomax: The European Years, 1950-58”, article by E. David Gregory, 17.9
• Alan Lomax Archive, The, 21.38
• Lost Mines and Treasures:
  • “Curtis Creek Buried Treasure” (Russell) 19.27 [motif analysis 19.32]
  • “Lost Gold Mine of the Cowichans” (with motifs) (Ballantyne), 9.5
  • “Lost Polson Mine” (with motifs), 6.5
  • “Lost Treasure in British Columbia” (L. A. Lazeo), cited, 4.7
  • “Lost Treasure of 108 Mile House, The” [legend and Motif study] (Mike Ballantyne), 4.7
  • Lost Treasure of Savary Island, The (Ballantyne) 21.65
  • “Rowland's Scotty Creek Gold” (with motif analysis), 8.26
• love spoons, Welsh, 4.2
• Luck Belief 19.39
• McGinty was a Sportin' Chap (song), 4.15
• MacVee, Agnus, 4.5
• The Magdalen Green (song: w. & m.), 17.50-52
• The Manchester Martyrs, or The Smashing of the Van sung to the tune Paddy West, (q.v.) 16.17
• “Mannikam Pennu” A Paraya Folktale. (Sebastian Vattamattam), 12.27
• mammoths (wooly), 12.11
• Märchen, 7.8
• Marshall MS., 5.14
• Marshall, Dan: “Fraser River Fever, The”, 10.14
• Mary Had a Steamboat [rhyme from Ilaender material] 15.46
• “Master Mechanic” (biography) (Ruth Dickson) 11.21
• May-Can-Do, The (song) (Tark Hamilton), 13.51
• Medicine Bags 11.8
• memorates, 17.36
• Mergansers, 11.14
• Mesachie Man, 4.2
• Métis, The, Part II, 12.21
• Métis food: Bains & Bannocks 11.7; preserves, 11.8
• Métis issue, no. 11
• Métis language 11.3
• Métis music, 9.2
• Michif 11.3
• Mine, Lost Polson, 6.5
• Moberg, Alan. review of “Salt Water Cowboy” and “Coastal Acoustic”, 13.21
• Moammar Gadhafi’s “Poison in the Coffee” by Judith Neulander, 23.26
  • and follow up, 24.57
• Monk, Katelyn
  • Cosmology and Culture [Part 2 of 2], 15.8
  • Ethnography as Art, 16.2
  • Forbidden Journeys, Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers (review), 16.23
  • Worldview and Narrative [Part 1 of 2], 14.8
• Monopoly, The (poem) 10.17
• Moon: Luck Belief 19.39
• moss bags for babies 11.11
• “Motif Index” (article, Ballantyne), 2.5; cf. 4.4
• Motif Index for Lost Mines and Treasures (B. H. Granger), cited, 4.7
• Motif Index: what it is and what it does. A revised explanation and bibliography, 12.3
• Motif numbers; suggested additions to the Indexes, 12.4
• Mowachaht legend: “Woodpecker was a Chief at the Time the Whole World was in Darkness”, 19.34
• “Murder Mystery of the 108 Hotel, The” (Ken Bourne), 4.5
• Murgatroyd: name lore and associations, 21.41
• Musqueam peoples 11.30
• “My Limerick Question” (Thomas), 9.18
• myth (def.), 7.8
• myth (def.), 7.8
• Name Lore:
  • Nevay Island, 24.7
• New Urban Legend? 19.51
• New Yellow Fever, The (poem) 10.17
• New Yellow Fever, The, (researched by Dan Marshall with music by Hilda Thomas), 13.4
• “Night Hunter and Day Hunter” (Kwakiutl Legend with motifs), 17.56-63
• The Night Visit (song: w. & m.), 17.52-53
• Nivkh legend, 1.5
• Norwegian settlers, 4.3
• “Not Forgotten: a clarification of some references made in “Forgotten Folklorist: Charlotte Burne and Shropshire Song” (BCF 18, pp. 4-13)” 20.35
• Not last night but the night before (rhyme), 5.12
• Notes.
  • Steve Hall 14.26
  • Mariamma Chedathy (award), 14.26
  • Oh, Sir Jasper Do Not Touch Me (song), 14.26
  • Hummingbirds in Folklore and Legend (update) 14.28
  • Logie o' Buchan, 17.47
  • Necrology, 14.30
  • The Tailor Fell Through the Bed, 17.47
  • Urban e-lore, 14.30
• obituaries:
  • Becky Bernson, 13.3
  • Art Degraaf, 17.3
  • John Dwyer, 8.3
  • Jack Fleetwood, 8.2
  • Mabel Fleetwood, 17.2
  • Edith Fowke, 2.2
  • Wade Hemsworth, 16.1
  • Vera Johnson, 21.1
  • Alan Lomax Jr., 17.5
  • Meep, 18.1
  • Bruce Olson 19.2
  • Kenneth Peacock, 15.1
  • Bill Sarjeant, 17.4
  • Dorothea Marion Savory, 1912-2005 [note], 20.1
  • Dorothea Marion Savory, 21.4
  • Cyril Tawney, 20.2
  • Hilda Louise Thomas, 21.2
  • Philip James Thomas, 21.1
• Oinas, Felix J.: “The Russian Chronicle & Historical Songs as Folklore”, 8.10
• Old Apple Tree in the Orchard (song), 5.11
• “Old Hildebrand” [Type 1360C, Motif K1556.], 5.17
• olongkho, 12.32
• Olson, Bruce 1930-2003 19.2
• “One fine day, in the middle of the night”: “Two Dead Boys” folk rhyme: all four verses (from BCFS Newsletter No.1 April 2001)
• “One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night” or “Two Dead Boys” (Website Article) 19.40
• One Morning in June, tune used for Did You Ever Eat Colcannon, 16.18
• “108 Mile House murder”, 4.5; rejoinder, 6.6
• “Origin of the Russians” (Mongolian legend) 1.2, of the Nivkh, 1.5
• Origin of the Tsitilwalagame Clan: Kwakiutl legend (Helena Sandler), 14.6
• Oscar, Eric:
  • “The Cedar Bough”, Morris tune, 14:23
  • “The Marmot's March”, Morris jig or 6/8 March, 17.55
• Osmanli proverb, 9.3
• Otto, Katherina (tr.), 12.32
• “Ou-Princess, The”, (Assamese tale w. motifs) 22.24-26
• Paddy West, tune used for Graber's song, The Hope-Princeton Slide, 16.16
• Paraya folklore (Vattamattam), 14.14
• Paraya folktale, 11.41
• Paterson, Tom: “Vancouver Island's Skeleton Cave”, 11.38
• Peacock, Kenneth Howard, 1922-2000 (Anna Kearney Guigne), 15.1
• “Phallus fallacy? Shoe Size Hints About Manhood Size?” 20.52
• “Phantom Horse of Jordan Meadows, The”: My Father's Story (Russ Godfrey), 16.15
• “Plug Your Ears!” (Gord Barney), 9.23 [Gord Barney's Website]
• Polack joke, 4.11
• political correctness, 4.11
• Postans, Laurie: From There to Here (review), 16.26
• practical joke, 4.20
• Prediction: crow rhyme spoken to predict the future (Scottish) 18.55
• preserves 11.8
• proverbs: Russian, 3.5, 8.8; Turkic, 3..5, 5.6; 9.4
• Pushkin, 8.23
• Queen of Nanaimo (song, Shilo Zylbergold) (w. & m.), 10.20
• Rajagopalan, Dr. C.R.:
  • (Ab)Original Aesthetics, 16.10
  • Sharing the Local / Traditional Knowledge, 17.43
• ravens, belief, 7.19, 11.9
• Recent Acquisitions — ongoing [22.53]
• Recent purchases, 22.60
• recipes:
  • Boxty, 18: 54
  • Canada's War Cake, 2.8
  • Colcannon, 18.53
  • Elephant Stew, 22.23
  • Potato Pie Dessert, 18.54
• Red River Jig, 11.12, 11.21, 12.24
• Redpath, Jean. review of “Now & Then”, 13.20
• references (editorial), 7.2
• Reimer, Phil. Phil Reimer's B.C. Weather Book, 13.37
• reincarnation as raven 11.9
• Remittance Man, The (song, Fleetwood), 9.13
• Reports:
  • Society's Year 2000 Canada Day Weekend folklore display, 14.24
• reviews:
  • Auerbach & Knoepflmacher (eds.), Forbidden Journeys, Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, 16.23
  • Barua, Pallavi Grandma’s Tales (Shoolbraid), 22.24 — together with the tale “The Ou-Princess”, from the same book
  • Blair & Meine, Half Horse Half Alligator, 9.19
  • Boas, Franz, Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas, see: Boas, Franz, Indian Myths & Legends from the North pacific Coast of America., 17.67
  • Boas, Franz, Indian Myths & Legends from the North pacific Coast of America (translated by Dietrich Bertz. Editied and Annotated by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy), 17.67
  • Books/Journals: Canadian Journal of Traditional Music (vol. 24), 7.3
  • Bourne, Antiquitates Vulgares, 6.20
  • Calt, Stephen, Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary, 23.27
  • Child, Francis James, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (New Edition), 17.68-69
  • Cray, Erotic Muse, 3.12
  • Curran: &$147;Zombies: A Field Guide to the Walking Dead.” 22.43
  • Cyr, Hélène, Handmade Forests; the treeplanter's experience, 13.32
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (New Edition), 10.19
  • Evanishen, Danny, The Raspberry Tree, with analysis of motifs, 3.6;
  • Evanishen, Danny, How April Went to Visit March, and other Ukrainian Folk Tales Retold in English (w. motifs), 13.16
  • Fraser Union, From There to Here, 16.26
  • Garry and El-Shamy, Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook, 20.54
  • Graber, Paddy The Craic was Great: Irish Songs and Stories from my Home (CD) 19.55
  • Green, Thomas A. (ed.) Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art (1997) 19.52
  • Gregory, E. David Victorian Songhunters: The Recovery and Editing of Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, (Shoolbraid) 21.59
  • Greenhill & Tye, Undisciplined Women - Tradition and Culture in Canada, 16.23
  • Joseph, Frank (ed.) Sacred Sites of the West, A Guide to Mystical Centers, 13.14
  • LeBlond and Bousfield, Cadborosaurus: Survivor from the Deep,, 20.51
  • Lyon, George W., Community Music in Alberta: Some Good Schoolhouse Stuff!, 16.24
  • Mahabir: “Caribbean Indian Folktales” (Ballantyne), 22.44
  • Erynn Marshall, Calico, 20.57
  • Phil Thomas and Friends: Live at Folklife Expo 80 (CD), 20. 56
  • Philip J. Thomas, Songs of the Pacific Northwest (second edition), (Shoolbraid) 21.12
  • Recordings: 9.2, Fiddle Fire (The Carson Kids), 10.1; 13.20, 13.21, 16.26
  • The Raincoast Kitchen, 6.2
  • Sassenach Rebellion, The Trooper and the Maid (CD) 19.53
  • Andrea Spalding, A World of Stories, with motif-analysis, 5.7
  • Tarasoff, Koozma J. Plakun Trava - The Doukhobors (CD-ROM book), 16.26
  • Taylor, David A., Documenting Maritime Folklife, 6.3;
  • Typenverzeichnis der bulgarischen Volksmärchen FFC 257 (Perkowski et al.) (MS), 8.6
  • Van Deusen, Kira. Raven and the Rock: Storytelling in Chukotka, 13.15
  • Von Sydow: Selected Papers on Folklore, 6.18
  • Zhabka and Other Ukrainian Folk Tales Retold in English (Evanishen), 8.6
• Riel, Louis, 12.21
• Riley, Al, 4.5
• “Rip Van Winkle” (Elizabeth Sneyd), 15.8
• River Roe, The sung to the tune Paddy West, (q.v.) 16.17
• Rob Tamson (song), 4.15
• Robin was a Ploughboy (song: w. & m.), 17.48-50
• Roger, Alexander (1784-1846), reference to:
  • I'll No Lie wi' my Mither Nae Mair (q.v.), 17.47-48
  • Robin Tamson's Smiddy, 17.48
  • The Cornclips, 17.48
• “Rowland's Scotty Creek Gold” (with motif analysis), 8.26
• Rufous-Sided Towhee, see “Swamp Robin”, 17.35
• Ruslan i Ljudmila, Prologue (Pushkin) 8.23
• Jack R. Russell, Jack R. “Curtis Creek Buried Treasure” 19.27
• “Russian Chronicle & Historical Songs as Folklore, The” (Oinas), 8.10
• “Russian Erotic Folklore”, (Shoolbraid), 21.17-38
• Russian folklore, 8.22
• Russian Proverbs, 8.8
• Russian superstition, 2.12
• Saint Nicholas Day in North Holland [with recipes] (Hilda Degraaf van der Wal) 15.54
• Sally Brown, 4.10
• Sandler, Helena:
  • “The Gift of the Drum”, 10.6
  • “Origin of the Tsitilwalagame Clan: Kwakiutl legend”, 14.6
  • “The Spirituality of Sound”, 11.30
  • “Tradition, Ceremony, and Culture through Song”, 15.31
• San Juan Pig, The (song, Dwyer), 9.11
• Sarjeant, William (Bill) Anthony Swithin (1935-2002) [Spalding], 17.4
• Sayings, see: “Wordlore and sayings”.
• Savory, Kenneth, 1.1-2, 2.8, 3.4, 5.4
• Savory, Dorothea Marion, 1912-2005 [note], 20.1
• Scottish Songs in B.C., 17.46
• Seagram's Flu, 14.26
• “Sealion Hunters, The” (legend), see: “The Story of Ten Brothers and the Sea Lion”, 16.20
• “The Secret Languages of Women: Complaint Discourse as a Means of Communication”, (Kris Carter) 22.27-39
• “Secret Songs of Silence”: Peter Buchan Project [work in progress], 14.34; 20.1
• seduction in folksongs, 4.14
• “Self-Moving Canoes of the Pacific Northwest”, (Ballantyne) 22.5
• shanties, 4.10
• “Shamans and the Millenium” (Marilyn Walker), 12.18
• “Shanty Process, The - Alive & Well”, 10.23
• Shoemaker's Kiss, The (song), 5.8
• Shoolbraid, Murray:
  • Peter Buchan MS., Secret Songs of Silence (More “Work in Progress”): 18.37; see also “Editorial”, 20.1, for publishing acceptance.
  • “Censorship & Folklore”. 4.11
  • Charm: definition, 13.5
  • “Closet On The Stair: A Toonheid Idyll, The” (Collected and Edited by MS), 24.46
  • Culture, etc. 15.6
  • Glenwhorple? 19.10
  • “Glenwhorple Highlanders, The”, 20.42
  • reviews:
    • of Barua, Grandma’s Tales, 22.23
    • of Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (New Edition), 17.68
    • of Cray, Erotic Muse, 3.12
    • of Evanishen, Raspberry Tree, 3.6
    • of Garry and El-Shamy, Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook, 20.54
    • of E. David Gregory, Victorian Songhunters: The Recovery and Editing of Vernacular Ballads and Folk Lyrics, 21.59
    • of Tarasoff, Plakun Trava - The Doukhobors (CD-ROM book), 16.26
    • of Philip J. Thomas, Songs of the Pacific Northwest (second edition), 21.12
    • of Spalding, A World of Stories, 5.7
  • Mary Had a Steamboat [rhyme from Ilaender material] 15.46
  • “Russian Erotic Folklore”, 21.17-38
  • see also: “R. Michael Ballantyne & Murray Shoolbraid”, 20.5
• sidehill gougers 11.17; 14.26
• Silviculture Folklore: B.C. Forestry from a Different Perspective, 13.32
• Slavic folklore, bibliography, 8.16; 10.22
• Slavic issue, no 8
• “Sleeping Kiltie”, The, and its motifs (together with the song “The Scotsman” sans music), 21.42
• “Sleeping Kiltie, The Continuing Saga of the”, (with new and corrected motifs) 22.40
• smudging 11.5
• Sneyd, Elizabeth: “Rip Van Winkle”, 15.8
• snakes, 12.27
• Society, formation of, 1.1; concertina, 2.8, library, 3.4, 7.16, 10.22
• Society's Canada Day Weekend folklore display, July 1st to 3rd (2000), 14.24
• Society's folkmusic recordings on 45 rpm discs. See: English Folkmusic 7”, 45 rpm recordings from the “Kenneth C. Savory Collection” of the BCFS, on the accompanying CD, The, 20.5
• Sokolov, “Russian Index, Index to,” (Shoolbraid), 13.22
• songs and rhymes [see, also, Tunes]:
  • A, Wa, Willie see: Hey Bonnie Lassie, 17.46
  • Bang Bang Susie, 20.3
  • Big Jim Folsom, 24.44
  • Bird In The Bush, The, 24.36
  • Bitter Withy, The, 24.38
  • Blow the Man Down, (a West Coast version) (song: w. & m.) 18.44
  • Call of the Cadborosaurus, The, (Hamilton) (song: w. & m.) 18.34
  • Cara Mia Mine (parody), 22. 39
  • Carnloch Bay, (w. & m.) 18.47
  • Ching ching Chinaman, muchee muchee sad, 6.8
  • Christ Made A Trance, (w. & m.) 18.7
  • Cold Blows the Wind, (The Unquiet Grave) (w. & m.) 18.5
  • Cruel Mother, The, (w. & m.) 18.8
  • Cuckold, The, (w. & m.) 18.37
  • Cuckold By Consent, A, (w. & m.) 18.39
  • Dech the halls with Commie corpses, 24.44
  • Degrading Tale of 1970, The, (Graber) (w. & m.) 10.3
  • Did You Ever Eat Colcannon (song: w & m.), 16.18
  • Far from Home, (coll. Philip J. Thomas), 21.14 [cf, Home Again (Pike), 21.16]
  • Fishing Grounds, (Ken Hamm), 2.14
  • Fishwife’s Tale, The, (Storz) (song: w. & m.) 8.29
  • Glenwhorple Highlanders, The [traditional version w. & m.], 20.43
  • Glenworple Highlanders, The (Duncan Tovey) [w. & m.], 20.48
  • Goodbye Horse, [traditional song of the Royal Navy] (w. & m.), 21.47-48
  • Hame o Mine, 24.53
  • Hey Bonnie Lassie, (song: w.& m.), 17.46
  • Hope-Princeton Slide, The (Graber) (w. & m.), 16.16
  • Horselogger’s Song, (Fleetwood), 7.13
  • Housewife’s Lament, The, (Johnson) (song: w. & m.) 21.6
  • I like’s a bow wow, me care-ee chow chow, 6.8
  • I’ll Eat Nae Mair o' your Cheese, 4.16
  • I’ll No Lie wi' my Mither Nae Mair, 17.47
  • Innerty finnerty, 7.12
  • It Happened Ae Nicht (song: w. & m.), 17.54-55
  • It Was In the Month of Daytime, (rhyme query) 21.49
  • Jenny Summers - The Belle of Rock Creek (song: w. & m.), 15.40
  • John Hielandman (song: w. & m.), 4.17
  • Ketelbinkie [The Kettleboy: with music; words in Dutch & English] submitted by Art Degraaf, 15.42
  • Little Camp Above Beaton, 24.63
  • Little Playmate (rhyme from the Ilaender Collection), 17.63-67
  • Loppington Bear, The, (w. & m.) 18.10
  • McGinty was a Sportin’ Chap, 4.15
  • Magdalen Green, The (song: w. & m.), 17.50-52
  • Mary Had a Steamboat [from Ilaender material], 15.46
  • May-Can-Do, The (Tark Hamilton), (song: w. & m.), 13.51
  • Me No Likee English Sailor, 20.42
  • Mine eyes have seen the horrors, 24.44
  • My name is Polly ’ill and I have a lover Bill, (“On the Banks of the Yang-Tsee-Kiang”) 6.8
  • New Yellow Fever, The, (coll. Dan Marshall w. music by Hilda Thomas), 13.4
  • Night Visit, The (song: w. & m.), 17.52-53
  • Not last night but the night before, 5.12
  • O Canada other words [and plea for information] 15.40
  • Old Apple Tree in the Orchard, The, (w. & m.) 5.11
  • On the Banks of the Yang-Tsee-Kiang, 6.8
  • One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night or Two Dead Boys [folk rhyme] (Website Article) 19.40
  • Queen of Nanaimo, (Shilo Zylbergold) (song: w. & m.), 10.2
  • Remittance Man, The, (Fleetwood) (song: w. & m.), 9.13
  • Road to Dundee, (w. & m.) (Ord) 18.48
  • Road to Dundee, (Modern Set) (w. & m.) 18.50
  • Robin was a Ploughboy (song: w. & m.), 17.48-50
  • Saga of the “La Pharte”, 21.44
  • Sally Brown, 4.10
  • San Juan Pig, The, (Dwyer) (song: w. & m.), 9.11
  • Scotsman, The (The Sleeping Kiltie), 21.42
  • Sea Is England’s Glory, The, 24.54
  • Shoemaker’s Kiss, the 5.8
  • Silkie of Sule Skerrie, The [Donegal Version] (words) 19.58
  • Somebody Bad Stole the C.P.R. (anonymous), 22.22
  • Sun-Sun-Sunflower Seed, 24.45
  • Sweet Carnloch Bay, (Graber) (w. & m.) 18.46
  • Tae a Fert, 21.64
  • Tailor Fell Through the Bed, The, note 17.47
  • There are bats in your belfry that flut, 7.14
  • There dwall’d a man in Aberdeen, 7.6
  • They Say They Are Flooding Old Beaton, 24.62
  • Wanton Willie Yir Wame Rins Out, 17.47
  • Way to Dundee, The, (w. & m.) 18.51
  • Wee Willie’s Lost His Marlie, 20.4
  • Whaur are ye gaun, my bonny wee lass?, 5.13
  • When she cam ben she bobbit fu’ law see: The Laird o' Cockpen, 17.46
  • Willifou fa’ the cat, 4.16
  • A Woman’s Work Will Never Be Done, (w. & m.) 18.43
• “Songs and Snippets from B.C.”, 4.15, 5.11, 6.8, 7.12, 21.44
• Spalding, Andrea: A World of Stories (rev.), 5.7
• Spalding, Dave: “B.C. Peoples - Some Sources”, 10.23
• “Spirituality of Sound, The (the Xwmetskwyam/Skwxwu7mesh First Nations)” (Helena Sandler) 11.30
• Squamish peoples 11.30
• step dancing 11.12
• “Step on the Squares...” (rhyme), 13.2
• Sto:lo people 10.6
• “The Story of Ten Brothers and the Sea Lion” (Cowichan legend), 16.20
• Storz, Margret (Peggy) 18.29
• street piano, 3.15
• superstitions, 2.12; 4.9; (definition), 6.13; Unusual Name Superstition 19.59
• survey of Russian folklore (MS), 8.22
• Swamp robin: defined, 17.35
• Swieringa, Sabine: Undisciplined Women - Tradition and Culture in Canada (review), 16.23
• Tahltan legend “Determination of the Seasons” 13.44
• Talking Head, The 11.10
• tall tales 6.11, 11.4, 11.8, 11.17, 13.11 (Cold Weather, Frogs, Hot Weather, Windmills)
• Tawney, Cyril 20.2
• Tippy Cat (stick game), 14.24
• Thomas, Phil:
  • “Edith Fowke” (obituary), 2.2
  • “My Limerick Question”, 9.18
  • note (by M. Ballantyne) on his biog. & Heritage Award, 3.2
  • Marius Barbeau Medal Award 18.2
• Thompson, Stith, 4.13 [suggested additions to Thompson's Motif Numbers]
• “Tradition, Ceremony, and Culture through Song” (Helena Sandler), 15.31
• traditional Métis music 11.18-20
• Traditional Ukrainian Funerary Rituals (Nadia Foty), 14.1
• Tramps and Hawkers sung to the tune Paddy West, (q.v.) 16.17
• Tree Planter’s glossary (John Cathro), 13.33
• tunes:
  • Back of the Smithie a reel. 21.56
  • Bonny Muir Hen, tune cited for, Wanton Willie Yir Wame Rins Out (q.v.), 17.47
  • Cedar Bough, The, Morris tune (Eric Oscar), 14:23
  • Home Again (Pike), 21.16
  • John Hielandman, 4.17
  • Julia's Fancy (MS), 6.22
  • The Laird o' Cockpen, tune for, Hey Bonnie Lassie, (q.v.), 17.46
  • The Marmot's March, Morris jig or 6/8 March (Eric Oscar), 17.55
  • Old Apple Tree in the Orchard, 5.11
  • Red River Jig, 12.25
• Tuvan legend, (Stories from Tuva) 1.5
• 24 ounce flu, 14.26
• “Two Dead Boys” folk rhyme “One fine day, in the middle of the night”
• Typenverzeichnis der bulgarischen Volksmärchen (Perkowski et al.) (review, MS), 8.6
• UFOs 10.22
• Uighur proverbs, 3.5, 5.6
• Ukrainian-Canadian stories, 3.6
• New Urban Legend? 19.51
• Van Deusen, Kira:
  • “Epic Singing in Khakassia”, 12.14
  • “From the Siberian Desk”, 5.14
  • Tuvan and Nivkh legends, 1.5
• “Vancouver Island's Skeleton Cave” (Tom Paterson) 11.38 (motifs, 41)
• Vattamattam, Sebastian:
  • “The Death and Resurrection of Kamachavelan”, 11.41
  • Humans, Gods, and Nature in Paraya Folklore, 14.14
  • “Mannikam Pennu”, 12.27
• Victoria Chinatown tunnel dwellers (belief), 14.26
• Von Sydow, Selected Papers on Folklore (review, MS), 6.18
• Walker, Marilyn:
  • “Shamans and the Millennium: A review of the International Congress on Shamanism and Other Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and Practices”, 12.18
• wart cures (Anne Ballantyne), 10.5
• Weather folklore: British Columbian's Weather Wisdom, 13.37; two myths: 13.44 & 13.45
• Weather myths:
  • “Determination of the Seasons” (Tahltan legend), 13.44
  • “The Four Great Chiefs of the Wind” (Tsimshian legend), 13.45
• Weathercocks, origin of, 21.5
• Welsh love spoons, 4.2
• Wet Weather 11.18
• Whaur are ye gaun, my bonnie wee lass? (song), 5.13
• When she cam ben she bobbit fu’ law see: The Laird o’ Cockpen, 17.46
• Willifu fa’ the cat (rhyme), 4.9
• Wordlore and sayings:
  • 1.4 (cultus), 2.4; 7.20
  • “Cold Enough to Freeze the Balls off a Brass Monkey,” 18.32
  • “He’s got more tongue than a mountie’s boot,” 16.9
  • “Folk music’s a bit like the mafia, because if you’re born into it, the only way out is if you die,” 16.9
  • See also:
    • bull prick
    • green
    • loggerisms
    • swamp robin
  • Worldview and Narrative (Katelyn Monk), 14.8
  • Yakut epics, 12.32
  • Yes You Did (note), another Irish song using the tune One Morning in June, 16.19
  • Zhabka and Other Ukrainian Folk Tales Retold in English (Evanishen) (review, MS), 8.6
  • Zylbergold, Shilo: Song: Queen of Nanaimo (w. & m.), 10.20

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