The Denham Tracts constitute a publication of a series of pamphlets and jottings on folklore, fifty-four in all, collected between 1846 and 1859 by Michael...
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Denham Springs is a city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2010 U.S. census placed the population at 10,215, up from 8,757 at the 2000...
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Hobbit (word) (redirect from Hobbit (Denham))
the source that it supposed Tolkien to have used: J. Hardy's 1895 The Denham Tracts, Volume 2, which stated that "The whole earth was overrun with ghosts...
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The word "hobbit" also appears in a list of ghostly beings in The Denham Tracts (1895), though these bear no similarity to Tolkien's Hobbits. Scholars...
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rowan's apotropaic powers against witches in English folklore, citing the Denham Tracts (collected between 1846 and 1859). Rowan also serves as protection against...
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Kilwhineloch. Denham Tracts Denham, Michael Aislabie; Hardy, James (1892–1895). The Denham tracts: a collection of folklore by Michael Ailabie Denham, and reprinted...
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Phenomena in Nature Denham, Michael (1895). Hardy, James (ed.). The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore : Reprinted from the Original Tracts and Pamphlets...
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Michael Aislabie Denham (1801 – 10 September 1859) was an English merchant and collector of folklore. A native of Gainford, County Durham, Denham was in business...
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wailing noises. It is also mentioned in the Denham Tracts, a 19th-century collection of folklore by Michael Denham. It may have been one inspiration for the...
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Pantheon Books. pp. 323–324. ISBN 0394409183. Denham, Michael and Hardy, James (1895). Denham Tracts (Vol. 2). David Nutt for The Folklore Society. p...
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