Personal Folklore File
Description
A collection of personal folklore items, based on personal experience and information given from family, friends and colleagues between 1968 and 1977. This record of traditions relates primarily to the collector's country of origin, Malawi, and was completed as a first term exercise (Folk Life 1) within the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies. Three main sections cover children's traditions (nicknames and insults, divination, omens and luck, disciplinary threats, games, songs, rhymes and sayings, calendar customs), adult oral traditions (song, narrative - jokes, sayings) and adult custom and belief (drinking, sex, pregnancy and childbirth, medicine and traditional remedies). This file follows the same format as those dossiers held in other student folklore files in this series, but was not originally filed amongst them.
Metadata
| Identifier | xssnm3cd |
| IRN | 410390 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/3/2/011 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xssnm3cd |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Student Folklore Dossiers |
| Creator(s) | Timpunza Mvula, Enoch S |
| Date | [1977] |
| Size and Medium | 105 unbound ms. leaves. |