Folk Collection (page 51)

Aerial Bombardment
Alas, there are sure to be ill-disposed persons who will exploit flight for their own evil purposes, dropping bombs, for example, onto the unfortunate earthbound folk

Australian Picnic
Australian families picnic in much the same way as anywhere else : these folk are doing it on the shore of Sydney harbour

Red Riding Hood & Wolf
Little Red Riding Hood enters grandmamas cottage with her basket of goodies to find the wolf disguised as the old woman and propped up on pillows in bed

French Fishing Scene
A shoreline fishing scene with small fishing boats beached on the sand while men and women buy and sell fish

Pedlar Selling Cloth
A travelling salesmen shows a young woman a bolt of patterned cloth. He has a yard stick ready to measure her order. A women in the background embroiders

Fireworks after Boyne
Firework display given by the gentry & folk of Covent Garden to commemorate the return of the victorious William III after the Battle of Boyne in Ireland. Bonfires are lit

Building a Dolmen
Neolithic folk building a dolmen

Elves Reposing
Reposing

Pilgrims at the Grotto
Pilgrims at the grotto - priests, peasants and fashionably dressed folk

Will of the Wisp Devil
Scottish country folk believe that the marsh lights are carried by the devil, luring travellers to their deaths

May Day Near Riom
MAY Celebrating May Day near the town of Riom, in the Auvergne - a procession of noble folk, accompanied by musicians, ride out in the woods

Dwarfs / Underground Work
A team of dwarf miners, the " underground workers" in action

Medieval Common Folk
Peasants and other commoners Date: Middle Ages

Folklore / Green Men
Green men of English traditional folk customs, dressed for a masquerade

Little Folk / Gnomes
A band of gnomes

Elves and their Tricks
Elves and their tricks

Homeless Arches / Slum / C19
Homeless folk passing the night under the arches of Londons bridges

Folklore / Leprechauns
Lusmore the Hunchback meets leprechauns and fairies near Cahir; in return for making them a dancing floor, they remove his hump and make him handsome

Little Folk / Goblin
Wag at the wa - a family brownie of Northern England

Little Folk / Gnome
A boy receives presents from friendly gnomes

Folklore / Little Folk
Askeladen and the doll - a diminutive girl who emerges from the grass

Nisses Christmas Treat
A Norwegian nisse enjoys his Christmas treat

Little Folk / Elves
Mischievous elves pull a grasshoppers leg

Little Folk / Leprechauns
An Irish luricane riding on a dog

Little Folk / Dwarfs
German dwarfs. engaged in metalworking

Little girl asleep, dreaming of fairies
A little girl asleep in bed, dreaming of fairies, some of them carrying trays of delicious cakes!

Dwarfs bind the sleeping heroes in a medieval folk tale

William Tell shooting the apple off his sons head
William Tell, mythical Swiss folk hero, shooting the apple off his sons head

Alleged portrait of William Tell
An alleged portrait of William Tell, the mythical Swiss folk hero. He lived, supposedly, in the early 14th century

Elves / Harum Scarum Galop
An angry-looking hare chases a frightened group of elves: just a typical day in fairyland, really

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