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    Garis, Marie (1986). Folklore of Guernsey. The Guernsey Press. ASIN B0000EE6P8. Gerish, William Blyth (1911). The Folk-Lore of Hertfordshire. Bishop's...
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    located 27 miles (43 km) west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited...
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    de Garis, Marie – Folklore of Guernsey. de Guerin Basil C. – The Norman Isles (1952) de Sausmarex, Haviland – The Extentes of Guernsey, 1248 to 1331, and...
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    history of Guernsey stretches back with evidence of Neolithic occupation, followed by Roman occupation. Christianity was brought to Guernsey by St Sampson...
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    18, 2011. "Colypixy". Pandius.com. Retrieved November 18, 2011. Folklore of Guernsey by Marie de Garis (1986) ASIN B0000EE6P8 [page needed] William Grant...
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    In Guernsey, Owain is remembered as Yvon de Galles. He and his Aragonese mercenaries have been absorbed into the island's folklore as an invasion of diminutive...
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    The culture of Guernsey in the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a culture which has been shaped by its indigenous Norman language and traditions as well as French...
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  • The Guernsey Society is an organisation for people with an interest in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. The Guernsey Society aims are to promote, maintain and...
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    Witches' stones (category Culture of Jersey)
    are flat stones jutting from chimneys in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. According to folklore in the Channel Islands, these small ledges were used...
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  • Jetins (category Culture of Guernsey)
    mostly mentioned by Paul Sébillot along the coast of Ille-et-Vilaine and on the island of Guernsey. Compared with similar lutins, they are characterized...
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  • Marie de Garis (category Guernsey centenarians)
    in Saint Peter, Guernsey, she published Folklore of Guernsey (1975) and the Glossary of Guernsey place-names. She served as president of La Société Guernesiaise...
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    cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions and practices associated with the United Kingdom, including the cuisines of England, Scotland, Wales and...
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    Theo Brown (category Devon folklore)
    preliminary notes on the folklore of Postbridge. West Country Folklore No. 7. St. Peter Port, Guernsey. Reprinted from Transactions of the Devonshire Association...
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    Wild Hunt (redirect from Lord of the Hunt)
    The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif occurring across various northern European cultures (motif E501 per Thompson). Wild Hunts typically involve a chase led...
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    the Treaty of Paris of 1259, when the English sovereign ceded his claim except for the Channel Islands; i.e., the Bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey,...
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    Houles fairy (category Culture of Guernsey)
    children were taught the art of using wands and seeing illusions. A story collected on the island of Guernsey tells of a ploughman who tried to take...
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    and Canadian folklore, and since the mid-20th century has grown into a cultural icon, permeating popular culture and becoming the subject of its own distinct...
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    bailiwicks, Guernsey and Jersey, are not a part of the United Kingdom, but since the 20th century are majority English-speaking and part of the British...
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    Connemara (category Geography of County Galway)
    one of the busiest smuggling operations in South Connemara and regularly unloaded cargoes smuggled in from Guernsey. Like many other members of the Gaelic...
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    States of Guernsey". parliament.uk. Policy Council of Guernsey. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013. "Isle of Man welcomes...
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  • This is a list of people on the banknotes of different countries. The customary design of banknotes in most countries is a portrait of a notable citizen...
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    List of flags of Kosovo List of flags of Latvia List of Liechtensteinian flags List of flags of Lithuania List of flags of Luxembourg List of flags of Malta...
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    (1974), Chamulas in the World of the Sun. Time and Space in a Maya Oral Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP. Guernsey, Julia (2006), Ritual and Power...
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    Europe (redirect from Map of europe)
    Dependencies of the United Kingdom. Other Channel Islands legislated by the Bailiwick of Guernsey include Alderney and Sark. Cyprus can be considered part of Europe...
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    of lyric, religious, and folkloric works, later diversifying under colonial influence into prose fiction, now widely embraced. The national poet of Pakistan...
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  • platforms. Carey, Anne (Autumn 2016). "Lore: Season 1". The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. pp. 167–69. Mahnke, Aaron (19 March 2015). "They...
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    Bibliography of Guadeloupe Bibliography of Guangzhou Bibliography of Guatemala Bibliography of Guernsey Bibliography of India Bibliography of Jersey List of books...
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  • William Arnold (bailiff) (category Bailiffs of Guernsey)
    Bailiff of Guernsey from 1960 to his death in 1973. Arnold was born and educated on Guernsey. He was called to the English Bar in 1926 and the Guernsey Bar...
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    Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet...
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    Legal Resources. Abortion (Guernsey) Law, 1997, Guernsey Legal Resources. Abortion (Guernsey) (Amendment) Law, 2021, Guernsey Legal Resources. Law on abortion...
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