Theo Brown

Theo Brown to gbangba Alavọ Exeter tọn

Theo Brown (yin jiji to azán 16tọ Awewesun 1914 – azán 3tọ Afínplọsun 1993) yin weyọnẹntọ British tọn de to Devon folklore. Eyin nuplọnmẹtọ he gando sinsẹn go to wehọmẹ alavọ Exeter tọn.

Otan gbẹzan etọn tọn

Theo Brown yin jiji na Jean Marion Pryce to London, onọ etọn basi matintọ to ajidonu. Otọ etọn, weyọnẹntọ de, he wa lẹzun hihọtọ Classical antiquities tọn to nusẹdotẹn British tọn bo ma penugo nado penukundo e go bo ze do owhé tọṣiọvi nọṣiọvi tọn gbe. E wa yin sọdodovi gbọn Dorothy Langford Brown dali bo wa yin yinkọ diọna zun Theodora Brown

Brown plọnwe to Westminster School of Art fihe e yin pinplọn gbọn Mervyn Peake po mẹdevo lẹ po, finẹ wẹ e sọ mọ họntọn vivẹ gbẹmẹ tọn etọn te he nọ yin Margaret Matcham. Enẹgodo, e kọnawudopọ po ogbẹ́ yẹdenanu kenn tọn.

To wẹkẹ whán ii whenu, e kọnawudopọ podo ogbẹ́ women Royal Naval Service ṣigba dile onọ etọn jlo do, e wazọ́n to fihe madẹn do whé. To awhán godo, na magbọjẹ po ṣokẹdẹninọ po wutu, e wa mọ W. F Jackson Knight to pinpán glintẹn de. Otan gbẹzan Jackson Knight tọn yinuwa do e ji sọmọ bọ e diọ ẹ nado plọn folklore po Comparative Religion po.

Nupinplọn ehe lọ godo wẹ e lẹzun weplọntọ te. E kannu gando otan lẹ po aṣa po go, ehe todin wa yin bibẹpli do wehọmẹ Devon and Exeter bọ owe etọn po azọ́n he ma yin didetọn lẹ yin sisẹdo do wehọmẹ alavọ Exeter tọn.

Brown basi matintọ to Exeter to azán 3tọ Afínplọsun 1993.

Azọn etọn lẹ

• 1954 The Dartmoor Legend of Mrs. Childe. Folklore 65, 103-9.
• 1958 The Black Dog. Folklore 69, 175-192.
• 1961 Tales of a Dartmoor Village. Some preliminary notes on the folklore of Postbridge. West Country Folklore No. 7. St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
• Reprinted from Transactions of the Devonshire Association XCIII (1961) 194-227].
• 1964 Living Images, Folklore 73, 25-40.
• 1968 (with Stephen Dewar) Ghostly Gold and Goblin Titles. West Country Folklore No. 2. St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
• 1970a Trojans in the West Country, West Country Folklore No. 4. St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
• 1970b Charming in Devon. Folklore 81, 19-47.
• 1975 West Country Entrances to the Underworld, in The Journey to the Other World, H.R.E. Davidson ed., Mistletoe Series No. 12. Folklore Society, London.
• 1978 The Black Dog in English Folklore,' in Animals in Folklore. J.R. Porter and W.M.S. Russell, eds. Mistletoe Series No. 9. Folklore Society, London.
• 1979 The Fate of the Dead: A Study in Folk Eschatology in the West Country after the Reformation. Mistletoe Series No. 12. Folklore Society, London.
• 1981 The Ghost of Old Mrs Leakey, in The Folklore of Ghosts, H.R.E. Davidson and W.M.S. Russell, eds., Mistletoe Series No. 15, Folklore Society, London.
• 1982 Devon Ghosts. Norwich.