Sound Recording, Leicester
Description
Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); Cat Anna's bower in Leicester; Kirby Castle; Cat Anna as children's frightening figure; rhyme (weather/months); beliefs - luck, birds and birth, scissors, knives, hair, weatherlore, moonlore; New Year's Eve - letting in the New Year; divination (future husband) - apple peel, wedding cake; luck - pennies, salt, spiders, itchy hands; secret tunnel; Black Anna (witch). 1 of 2.
Metadata
| Identifier | bj1lwnvy |
| IRN | 414156 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A106r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bj1lwnvy |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Edge, Christine |
| Date | 1965 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 32' 53". |