Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
Frank Weatherill , recorded at home in Danby; talks about a local storyteller; tall tales; storytelling as a form of amusement; local legends regarding hammer throwing (example from Lastingham); FW's work as a stonemason; interest in folklore and poetry; recites poems (one written 1971, another a Baron Munchausen story); sending poems as Christmas cards; introduces and reads 'The Story of Fairy Cross Plain'; relates anecdotes connected with the Danby area; talk of terms used in the story, including a name for a type of cupboard (with carvings); talk of the song ? 'Woodbury Hill'. Frank Weatherill talks about songs and singing, survival and changes (reference to 'The Bonny Hawthorn'); singing with his father; learning to play the fiddle; hearing; supplying musical parts to local brass band; Fryup Free School (reference to a nineteenth century account book); origin of 'The Story of Fairy Cross Plain', and the tale's transmission - FW recites the story from memory; local fairy beliefs and anecdotes; sixpence in butter churn as protection against witches; shapeshifting (hares); the Goathland area and its dialect; talk of FW's dialect and influence of Army service with men from other parts of the country (compares situation within local regiments); differences/similarities in Yorkshire dialects.
Metadata
| Identifier | wbxq68f5 |
| IRN | 414681 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A630r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wbxq68f5 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Green, Anthony E |
| Date | 17 August 1973 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 103' 22". |