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

Sidney Oldall Addy and the Small-Tooth Dog

Feb 01, 2022

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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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