John B Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3790648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John B Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | John B |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0666-9680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1890 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Developing a Congregational Health Needs Assessment: Lessons Learned from Using a Participatory Research Approach
Cross-disciplinary partnerships made the creation of the MSCHS and implementation protocol possible. Successes include long-term engagement across partnership sectors, organizational "buy-in," and development of a common language. These lessons can help others wanting to develop successful multi-sector partnerships
On the Discovery of Plantain as a Healing Herb
The herb plantain was said on the Isle of Man to be good against cuts, as demonstrated by a cockroach that, in a battle against a stag beetle, was able repeatedly to heal itself by using the herb as a vulnerary. When this was removed, the cockroach died. A similar and roughly contemporaneous account was recorded in Virginia about 1800. Earlier variants may be found in the works of Erasmus and of the pharmacologist Hieronymus Brunschwig. Such acco…
Some Indigenous Fruits and Berries and their Harvesting in the Mirror of Language and Tradition
While most of the fruits and berries we nowadays consume are exotic in origin, there are a few indigenous ones that, when we harvest them in the wild, put us in touch with the food-gathering activities and experiences of earlier generations. Much can be learnt from the names of such fruits and berries, and from the culinary, medicinal, and domestic uses to which they are put. As for the folklore associated with them, although this often suggests …
The Silly Treun: An Odd Bird Identified
We proceed from Seumas MacManus's 1905 poem 'The Silly Treun', in which the Donegal poet portrays as risible the claim made by a treun alias corncrake that, as it lies on its back, it is holding up the sky with its feet. This narrative clearly has medieval predecessors, in which, however, the protagonist is always a wren. Linguistic evidence is presented for and against the view that it was MacManus himself who transmuted wren to corncrake. The r…
Granfer-GrigandFuzzy-Pig: What Devonians Call Woodlice - and Why
Consider pissabed, welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk, proud tailor, Devil's coach-horse, twitch-ballock. No one could deny that such everyday., now halfforgotten names for plants and animals are highly evocative, sometimes rude, sometimes affectionate, sometimes mysterious, often poetical. To quote an early authority on such matters, they reflect ‘a folk-lore full of channing fancies and quaint beliefs, but wholly unscientific in its att…
Granfer-Grig and Fuzzy-Pig: What Devonians Call Woodlice - and Why
A Bunch of Customs: Paying Beverage, Giving Handsel, Bending Coins
Regional customs and the expressions that refer to them are like the scattered pieces of a long-lost puzzle. Each one is unique and somehow meaningful, but makes only partial sense when viewed in isolation. Of course it is rare for every piece of such a puzzle both to survive and to fit in with its neighbour to give a perfect picture. But even when only two or three pieces can be discovered, one will often complement the other and add to its sign…
Striped-petticoat Philosophy
Topics, Notes and Comments: The Devil of Croyden Hill: Kinship, Fiction, Fact, Tradition
Making Sweet Hay: A West Country Custom in its Wider Context
Our subject is harvest customs, together with arguably related rites of passage, civic ceremonies and occupational practices. If any of these can be said to have cast a spell, it is surely harvest customs, and if a reason for this be sought, it may be glimpsed in the following quotation. It is from a modern and readily accessible commentary on a rite allegedly associated with the knack or neck, a Devonshire word for the last sheaf in the harvest-…
Perchta the belly‐slitter and her kin: A view of some traditional threatening figures, threats and punishments
In the contemporary folklore of Austria, Frau Perchta (active during the twelve days of Christmas) is depicted as the rewarder of the generous and the punisher of the bad. But the punishments she inflicts, such as ripping out a person's guts and replacing them with refuse, do not seem to fit the crime. This paper links Perchta's behaviour, and that of other bogeyman figures, to their historical context. Initially Perchta was the enforcer of commu…
Writing, thinking, computing
Chew-hallaw and Buckalee: A Comparative Study of Some Bird-Scaring and Herding Rhymes
It is common knowledge that many so-called nursery rhymes began their lives as something quite different and would long since have been lost trace of if they had not been appropriated by or for young children. If we search through the Opies' collection with this in mind, we shall find proverbs, tongue-twisters, riddles, older children's counting-out formulas, snatches of love songs, ballads, drinking songs and mummers' plays, epigrams, political …
Of Skinflints and Pinch-Farthings
NOT very long ago I was reminded of the saying as mean as Moke, which used to be common in the part of my family that comes from N.W. Derbyshire, but an explanation of who or what Moke might be did not readily occur to me. In some northern dialects moke is 'mist' or 'fog,' and in general dialect and in slang the word means 'donkey. The latter interpretation might be preferred by anyone familiar with the Cockney as mean as cat's,2 which also appea…
Thematic Structure in Four Fundamentalist Sermons
The Computer and the Finnish Historical-Geographical Method
THE FINNISH, OR HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL, METHOD for comparative study of folktales needs introduction to folklorists. The methodology has endured for nearly a century, and surest signs of its soundness have been improvements fashioned upon it by its most devastating critics. Recently, it has been attacked again by current generation of structuralists as being the study of folklore for its own sake, as though that were a fault.' Its endurance, as …
The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure
Insects as factors in sanitary work have been very little regarded until recent years and, practically, only since it was demonstrated that mosquitoes of certain species were necessary intermediate agents in the transmission of certain febrile diseases. Thr history of that demonstration has been well written by Howard, Blanchard, Theobald and others, and need be only referred to here. Since that time, attention having been directed to the class, …
An Essay on the Development of the Mouth Parts of Certain Insects
Volume: 19
Contributions toward a monograph of the insects of the lepidopterous family Noctuidae of boreal North America. A revision of the deltoid moths
A catalogue, bibliographical and synonymical, of the species of moths of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidae, found in boreal America, with critical notes
Contribution toward a monograph of the insects of the lepidopterous family Noctuidae of temperate North America. Revision of the species of the genus Agrotis
A Bunch of Customs: Paying Beverage, Giving Handsel, Bending Coins
Regional customs and the expressions that refer to them are like the scattered pieces of a long-lost puzzle. Each one is unique and somehow meaningful, but makes only partial sense when viewed in isolation. Of course it is rare for every piece of such a puzzle both to survive and to fit in with its neighbour to give a perfect picture. But even when only two or three pieces can be discovered, one will often complement the other and add to its sign…
Perchta the belly‐slitter and her kin: A view of some traditional threatening figures, threats and punishments
In the contemporary folklore of Austria, Frau Perchta (active during the twelve days of Christmas) is depicted as the rewarder of the generous and the punisher of the bad. But the punishments she inflicts, such as ripping out a person's guts and replacing them with refuse, do not seem to fit the crime. This paper links Perchta's behaviour, and that of other bogeyman figures, to their historical context. Initially Perchta was the enforcer of commu…
Chew-hallaw and Buckalee: A Comparative Study of Some Bird-Scaring and Herding Rhymes
It is common knowledge that many so-called nursery rhymes began their lives as something quite different and would long since have been lost trace of if they had not been appropriated by or for young children. If we search through the Opies' collection with this in mind, we shall find proverbs, tongue-twisters, riddles, older children's counting-out formulas, snatches of love songs, ballads, drinking songs and mummers' plays, epigrams, political …
Contribution toward a monograph of the insects of the lepidopterous family Noctuidae of temperate North America. Revision of the species of the genus Agrotis
A catalogue, bibliographical and synonymical, of the species of moths of the lepidopterous superfamily Noctuidae, found in boreal America, with critical notes
Contributions toward a monograph of the insects of the lepidopterous family Noctuidae of boreal North America. A revision of the deltoid moths
An Essay on the Development of the Mouth Parts of Certain Insects
Volume: 19
The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure
Insects as factors in sanitary work have been very little regarded until recent years and, practically, only since it was demonstrated that mosquitoes of certain species were necessary intermediate agents in the transmission of certain febrile diseases. Thr history of that demonstration has been well written by Howard, Blanchard, Theobald and others, and need be only referred to here. Since that time, attention having been directed to the class, …
The Computer and the Finnish Historical-Geographical Method
THE FINNISH, OR HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL, METHOD for comparative study of folktales needs introduction to folklorists. The methodology has endured for nearly a century, and surest signs of its soundness have been improvements fashioned upon it by its most devastating critics. Recently, it has been attacked again by current generation of structuralists as being the study of folklore for its own sake, as though that were a fault.' Its endurance, as …
Thematic Structure in Four Fundamentalist Sermons
Of Skinflints and Pinch-Farthings
NOT very long ago I was reminded of the saying as mean as Moke, which used to be common in the part of my family that comes from N.W. Derbyshire, but an explanation of who or what Moke might be did not readily occur to me. In some northern dialects moke is 'mist' or 'fog,' and in general dialect and in slang the word means 'donkey. The latter interpretation might be preferred by anyone familiar with the Cockney as mean as cat's,2 which also appea…
Chew-hallaw and Buckalee: A Comparative Study of Some Bird-Scaring and Herding Rhymes
It is common knowledge that many so-called nursery rhymes began their lives as something quite different and would long since have been lost trace of if they had not been appropriated by or for young children. If we search through the Opies' collection with this in mind, we shall find proverbs, tongue-twisters, riddles, older children's counting-out formulas, snatches of love songs, ballads, drinking songs and mummers' plays, epigrams, political …
Writing, thinking, computing
Perchta the belly‐slitter and her kin: A view of some traditional threatening figures, threats and punishments
In the contemporary folklore of Austria, Frau Perchta (active during the twelve days of Christmas) is depicted as the rewarder of the generous and the punisher of the bad. But the punishments she inflicts, such as ripping out a person's guts and replacing them with refuse, do not seem to fit the crime. This paper links Perchta's behaviour, and that of other bogeyman figures, to their historical context. Initially Perchta was the enforcer of commu…
Striped-petticoat Philosophy
Topics, Notes and Comments: The Devil of Croyden Hill: Kinship, Fiction, Fact, Tradition
Making Sweet Hay: A West Country Custom in its Wider Context
Our subject is harvest customs, together with arguably related rites of passage, civic ceremonies and occupational practices. If any of these can be said to have cast a spell, it is surely harvest customs, and if a reason for this be sought, it may be glimpsed in the following quotation. It is from a modern and readily accessible commentary on a rite allegedly associated with the knack or neck, a Devonshire word for the last sheaf in the harvest-…
A Bunch of Customs: Paying Beverage, Giving Handsel, Bending Coins
Regional customs and the expressions that refer to them are like the scattered pieces of a long-lost puzzle. Each one is unique and somehow meaningful, but makes only partial sense when viewed in isolation. Of course it is rare for every piece of such a puzzle both to survive and to fit in with its neighbour to give a perfect picture. But even when only two or three pieces can be discovered, one will often complement the other and add to its sign…
Granfer-GrigandFuzzy-Pig: What Devonians Call Woodlice - and Why
Consider pissabed, welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk, proud tailor, Devil's coach-horse, twitch-ballock. No one could deny that such everyday., now halfforgotten names for plants and animals are highly evocative, sometimes rude, sometimes affectionate, sometimes mysterious, often poetical. To quote an early authority on such matters, they reflect ‘a folk-lore full of channing fancies and quaint beliefs, but wholly unscientific in its att…
Granfer-Grig and Fuzzy-Pig: What Devonians Call Woodlice - and Why
The Silly Treun: An Odd Bird Identified
We proceed from Seumas MacManus's 1905 poem 'The Silly Treun', in which the Donegal poet portrays as risible the claim made by a treun alias corncrake that, as it lies on its back, it is holding up the sky with its feet. This narrative clearly has medieval predecessors, in which, however, the protagonist is always a wren. Linguistic evidence is presented for and against the view that it was MacManus himself who transmuted wren to corncrake. The r…
Some Indigenous Fruits and Berries and their Harvesting in the Mirror of Language and Tradition
While most of the fruits and berries we nowadays consume are exotic in origin, there are a few indigenous ones that, when we harvest them in the wild, put us in touch with the food-gathering activities and experiences of earlier generations. Much can be learnt from the names of such fruits and berries, and from the culinary, medicinal, and domestic uses to which they are put. As for the folklore associated with them, although this often suggests …
On the Discovery of Plantain as a Healing Herb
The herb plantain was said on the Isle of Man to be good against cuts, as demonstrated by a cockroach that, in a battle against a stag beetle, was able repeatedly to heal itself by using the herb as a vulnerary. When this was removed, the cockroach died. A similar and roughly contemporaneous account was recorded in Virginia about 1800. Earlier variants may be found in the works of Erasmus and of the pharmacologist Hieronymus Brunschwig. Such acco…
Developing a Congregational Health Needs Assessment: Lessons Learned from Using a Participatory Research Approach
Cross-disciplinary partnerships made the creation of the MSCHS and implementation protocol possible. Successes include long-term engagement across partnership sectors, organizational "buy-in," and development of a common language. These lessons can help others wanting to develop successful multi-sector partnerships
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