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| Custom: Rituals and behaviors that are habitual |
| Omen: A warning or sign that something will happen. |
| Old Hag: A terrfiying Nightmare. |
| Fairies: In the bogy and wooded areas, it is believed that 3-inch creatures sing and dance. If your paths cross, these creatures may cause you some trouble. So, you better take some precautions! |
| Folk Medicine: Non-conventional medicine performed by non-professionals and uses natural ingredients. |
| Place Legends: Story about a specific location |
Curing Warts Some people in Melrose have the abiltiy to cure warts without the use of any modern medicines. These people will tell you that one way to cure a wart is to simply by"not thinking about it". If you look at your wart and then you stop thinking about it--the wart will just disapear! |
| How to Escape a Fairy There are numberous tales of fairies living in the forests and bogs of Newfoundland. Would you believe that Melrose also has a rich oral tradtiion all about Fairies? If you get caught in the spell of a fairy, one way to lose this fariy is to find a tree or tree stump and walk around it. The fairy will quickly lose you! |
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| Do you have any creepy ghost stoires? Do you and your family have any yearly customs? E-mail: [email protected] to have them posted here! |
| Newfoundland Vocab: A variation of standard words and phrases. A way of speaking that is unique to Newfoundland |
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| Place Legend Legend has it that, at night, if you walk "in the road" towards Port Union, you shouldn't look over your left shoudler. If you do...you will see a ghost! |
| Folk Song: Traditional songs that have several variations depenign on where you hear it. Songs that sing about lcoal culture and concers |
| Tall Tale: A deliaberate lie told about humorously exaggerated events. |
| Folklore: The culture of a group that is passed on over the years through words, habit and oberservation. The folklore of a group is often very different from the folklore of other groups. |
| Folklore includes: Jokes, children's games, Fairy Tales, art, archeitecture, Proverbs, Riddles, slang, superstitions...and so on. |
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| As a fishing village with a rich history and great character, Melrose has LOTS of Folklore! |
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