Bibliography - Folklore
Bibliography Home

West Sussex Superstitions, by Charlotte Latham, published 1878 in The Folklore Society (vol. 1, issue 1, article, pp.4-67, Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1744-1994)   View Online

Sussex "Tiptecrers" Play, by Charlotte Latham, published 1884 in The Folklore Society (vol. 2, issue 1, article, pp.1-8, Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1744-1994)   View Online

Sussex Folklore, by Mrs Hardy, published September 1914 in The Folklore Society (vol. 25, issue 3, article, pp.368-369, Taylor & Francis)   View Online

Witch Lore from the Borders of Sussex and Surrey. (1895-1898), by Mary M. Banks, published March 1941 in The Folklore Society (vol. 52, issue 1, article, pp.74-75, Taylor & Francis)   View Online

Rough Music in Sussex, by S. Olivia Wooley, published March 1958 in The Folklore Society (vol. 69, issue 1, article, p.39, Taylor & Francis)   View Online

Legends of Chanctonbury Ring, by Jacqueline Simpson, published June 1969 in The Folklore Society (vol. 80, issue 2, article, pp.122-131, Taylor & Francis)   View Online

Sussex Local Legends, by Jacqueline Simpson, published September 1973 in The Folklore Society (vol. 84, issue 3, article, pp.206-223, Taylor & Francis)   View Online

"Waendel" and the Long Man of Wilmington, by Jacqueline Simpson, published March 1979 in The Folklore Society (vol. 90, issue 1, article, pp.25-28, Taylor & Francis)   View Online

The skeleton army and the Bonfire Boys, Worthing, 1884, by Chris Hare, published June 1988 in The Folklore Society (vol. 99, issue 2, article, pp.221-231, Taylor & Francis) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Sussex Serpent, by J. Harte, published 1994 in The Folklore Society (vol. 105, issue 1-2, article, pp.103-104, Taylor & Francis) accessible at: British Library   View Online

Herbert Toms (1874-1940), witch stones, and "porosphaera" beads, by Christopher J. Duffin, published April 2011 in The Folklore Society (vol. 122, issue 1, article, pp.84-101)   View Online
After early employment with the archaeologist, General Pitt Rivers, Herbert Samuel Toms (1874-1940) was a curator in the Brighton Museum. He amassed a significant folklore archive, including specimens, photographs, and records of interviews from Sussex and adjoining counties, his particular interest was naturally perforated flints (witch stones or hagstones), used to protect households against witches, domestic animals from the ravages of the nightmare, and to cure a range of diseases. By the 1920s, they were regarded as little more than "lucky stones", as were necklaces made up of the Cretaceous fossil sponge, Porosphaera.