Week of June 22 - Folklore – Dale Jarvis (guest editor)

Wikipedia Needs Assessment –
Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore

Existing Articles to Improve:

Candlemas (needs expansion for NL content)
Cressie (needs expansion and citations)

Fairy (needs expansion for NL content)

Fish and Brewis (needs expansion and citations)

Guy Fawkes Night (needs expansion/citations for NL content/Bonfire Night/Torch Night)

Jigg’s Dinner (needs reworking and citations)

Lutin (needs expansion/citations for NL content)

Mummers Parade (add more on Festival?)

Newfoundland Screech (needs citations)

Otto Tucker (needs expansion, bibliography and citations)

Peter Easton (needs citations)

Root Cellar (needs expansion for NL content)

Rug Hooking (needs editing, citations)

Sheelah’s Day (include Sheila’s Brush?)

Sleep Paralysis (to include Old Hag)

Tibb's Eve (needs expansion and citations)

Touton (add citations)

Ugly Stick (needs citations)

Will-o’-the-Wisp (needs expansion/citations for NL content/Jacky Lantern)

Wren Day (needs expansion for NL content)

New articles to create:
Barking/Bark Pot
Barrelman Radio Program
Birch Broom
Craft Council of NL
Father Duffy’s Well
Jellybean Row
Mug up
Nalujuk Night
Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival
Old Smoker Legend
St. John’s Folk Arts Council
St. John’s Storytelling Festival
Sugarloaf Hill
Tiddly
Trigger Mitts
Wessex Society of Newfoundland

Online Resources on Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore
“Folklore” in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Volume 2, pp. 243-271
Folklore and Traditional Culture – Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador website
Dictionary of Newfoundland English
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Pam Hall’s Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge
Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive
Digital Archives Initiative (Memorial University)
Archival Moments (The Rooms Archives)
Culture & Tradition (The Canadian Graduate Student Journal of Folklore)
Folklore Theses (Memorial University)
Collection Guides – Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries
See suggested titles in “Folklore of Newfoundland and Labrador” 2003

Also consult Online Resources with Newfoundland and Labrador Content.

Recommended readings and potential citations for articles:

Devine, P. K. Devine's Folk Lore of Newfoundland in Old Words, Phrases and Expressions, Their Origin and Meaning. St. John's, Nfld.: Memorial U of Newfoundland, Folklore and Language Publications, 1997.

Halpert, Herbert, and G. M. Story. Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland; Essays in Anthropology, Folklore, and History. Toronto]: Published for Memorial University of Newfoundland by University of Toronto, 1969.
Halpert, Herbert. Ireland, Sheila and Newfoundland. St. John's, Nfld.: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1977.
Hiscock, P. (2002). A Perfect Princess: The Twentieth-Century Legend of Sheila na Geira and Gilbert Pike. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 18(2).
https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/880
Jarvis, Dale Gilbert. Any Mummer's 'llowed In? : Christmas Mummering Traditions in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's : Flanker Press Limited, 2014.
Narváez, Peter. The Good People : New Fairylore Essays. New York: Garland Pub., 1991.
Rieti, Barbara. Strange Terrain : The Fairy World in Newfoundland. St. John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991.
Thomas, Gerald, and J. D. A. Widdowson. Studies in Newfoundland Folklore : Community and Process. St. John's, Nfld.: Breakwater, 1991.

Compiled June 18, 2020
Centre for Newfoundland Studies
cnsqeii@mun.ca