Folk Legend and Personal Experience Narrative
- ISBN-10
- 0919519377
- ISBN-13
- 9780919519374
- Category
- Folk literature
- Pages
- 24
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-01-01
- Publisher
- St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater Books
- Authors
- Gerald Thomas, David Duncan Buchan, Kenneth S.. Goldstein
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