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unusual facts about Child Ballads


Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie

Almost all Child Ballads were recorded by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger or Burl Ives, but in this case we have one of the rarest Child ballads.


Pamela Dean

Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet (born 1953), better known as Pamela Dean, is an American fantasy author whose most notable book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota.

W. Roy MacKenzie

While at Harvard, MacKenzie was among members of an increasingly prominent group of English professors influenced by the work of Francis Child, an American folklorist who collected what is now known as the Child Ballads.


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