Excerpt from For Collecting and Printing Relics of Popular Antiquities, &C: Established in the Year MDCCCLXXVIII
This, the sixth number (and fourth volume) of the County Folklore series, is the result of the painstaking collection made some years ago by Mrs. M. C. Balfour, formerly of Belford, Northumberland, which has now been revised and edited by Mr. N. W. Thomas. The thanks of the Society are due to both these workers, and also to Mr. R. O. Heslop for much kind help in facilitating research, to the publishers of Brockie's Legends and Superstitions for permission to quote extracts from that work, and to Mr. D. D. Dixon for similar permission with regard to his Whittingham Vale. The last-named gentleman's Upper Coquetdale (Redpath, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1903) is naturally of too recent a date to be included among the works quoted.
The smallness of the present volume, as compared with the second and third of the series, is due, not to the paucity of Northumberland Folklore to be recorded, but to the fact that so much of it has already seen the light in the publications of the Society.
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