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 FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. , 1893.

HE principal undertakings of the Society during the year 1892 have been: (1) The inauguration of the work recommended by the Council in their last Annual Report, viz., collecting the Folk-lore of the different counties; (2) closely allied with and arising out of this work: the institution of a joint conference of the learned societies interested in the subject, for the discussion of the best means of obtaining a complete ethnographic survey of the United Kingdom.

As regards the first point, the Council drew up the following recommendation for the guidance of the Local Committees, viz:—


 * I. That the Committee be called the ............... Local Committee for Folk-lore.
 * II. That the Committee be invited to attach itself to the Folk-lore Society as a member.
 * III. That all items of Folk-lore from printed sources, such as Chronicles, Local Histories, Newspapers, Notes and Queries, and Archceological Publications, be copied out by the Local Committee, to be printed by the Folk-lore Society.
 * IV. That the current Folk-lore of the county be collected orally, to include (a) Folk Tales and Nursery Tales; (b) Hero Tales; {c) Traditional Ballads and Songs; (d) Place Legends and Traditions; (e) Fairy Lore and Goblindom; (f) Witchcraft and Charms; (g) Folk Medicine; (h) Superstitions; (i) Local Customs; (j) Festival Customs; (k) Ceremonial Customs; (l) Games; (m) Jingles, Nursery Rhymes, Riddles, etc.; (n) Proverbs; (o) Old Saws—rhymed and unrhymed; (p) Nicknames, Place Names, and Sayings; {q) War Cries; (r) Folk Etymology.