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51exterminate — exterminate, extirpate, eradicate, uproot, deracinate, wipe are comparable when they mean to effect the destruction or abolition of something. Exterminate implies utter extinction; it therefore usually implies a killing off {efforts to… …
52Aubrey, John — (1626 1697) Antiquary, was a country gentleman who inherited estates in several counties in England, which he lost by litigation and otherwise. He devoted himself to the collection of antiquarian and miscellaneous observations, and gave… …
53Collins, William — (1721 1759) A pre Romantic poet of many odes, the son of a hatter from Chichester, Sussex, Collins was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he published his Persian Eclogues (1742). Dr. Samuel Johnson says of him …
54Wright, Thomas — (1810 77) After showing early promise in the literary antiquarian field, settling in London in 1836, he served as Secretary of both the Camden and Percy Societies, and for many years worked in collaboration with fellow antiquarian *Halliwell… …
55the robin and the wren are God’s cock and hen; the martin and the swallow are God’s mate and marrow — Marrow is an obsolete word (except in dialect), meaning ‘something that makes a pair with another’. The rhyme is found in a variety of forms, as in a 1508 J. SKELTON Poems (1969) 45 The prety wren..is our Ladyes hen. 1787 F. GROSE Provincial… …
56\@Vampire Mythology: Bibliography — [↑] @Vampire Mythology Abbott, George Frederick. Macedonian Folklore. Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1903. Abrahams, Roger D. The ManofWords in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins… …
57Bibliography — ■ Abrahams, Roger D., Jump Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969). ■ and Rankin, Lois, Counting Out Rhymes: A Dictionary (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980). ■ Ackerman, Robert, J. G. Frazer: His Life… …
58Fairy ring — For the article dedicated to the Southwest African phenomenon of fairy circles, see Fairy circle (Africa). For the Neolithic archaeological monument, see Hjaltadans. A fairy ring on a suburban lawn A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf… …
59Culture of Quebec — The Culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting from the shared history of the French speaking majority in Quebec. It is unique to the Western World; Quebec is the only region in North America with a French speaking… …
60FOLKLORE — This entry is arranged according to the following outline: introduction …
