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How a local folklorist became Sheffield’s answer to the Brothers Grimm
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How a local folklorist became Sheffield’s answer to the Brothers Grimm

Sidney Oldall Addy and the Small-Tooth Dog

Feb 1
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Good afternoon members — and welcome to Tuesday’s newsletter.

Today we have a piece about Sidney Oldall Addy, a local historian and folklorist who has been compared to the Brothers Grimm. In the late nineteenth century he toured Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire looking for folk tales that had been passed on by word of mouth. Modern storytellers …

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