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Galoshins remembered : a penny was a lot in these days / edited by Emily Lyle.

Title
Galoshins remembered : a penny was a lot in these days / edited by Emily Lyle.
Publication
Edinburgh : NMS Enterprises, 2011.

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Lyle, Emily B.
Description
189 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
Summary
Galoshins was a seasonal folk drama learned orally and performed, mostly by boys, in people's houses. It took place on Old Year's Night or on Halloween in the south of Scotland at the very end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The drama took the form of a fight, sometimes with 'swords', and then a 'doctor' perfomred a comic turn in bringing the injured party back to life. These oral reminiscences were collected for the School of Scottish Studies Sound Archive from people in Melrose, Morebattle, Hawick, Westruther, Biggar, Muirkirk, Kirkcowan, Newton Stewart, Armadale, Falkirk, Camelon, Dennyloanhead and Kippen.
Subject
Folk drama, Scottish
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781905267569
  • 1905267568
LCCN
^^2011431359
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library