• "The Daemon Lover" (Roud 14, Child 243) – also known as "James Harris", "A Warning for Married Women", "The Distressed Ship Carpenter", "James Herries"...
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  • short excerpt from the traditional ballad "The Daemon Lover", in which the title character's name is James Harris. The book bears the dedication "For my...
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  • Demon Lover may refer to: The Daemon Lover, a medieval British ballad The Daemon Lover, a short story by Shirley Jackson. "The Demon Lover", a 1945 short...
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  • from the far east nation of Yi Ti who became Prince Daemon Targaryen's lover. After Daemon steals the deceased Prince Baelon Targaryen's dragon egg, Mysaria...
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  • LaRue Sings 'The Daemon Lover' with The Baltimore Consort (1993) Bright Day Star (1994) A Trip to Killburn (1996) Tunes from the Attic (1997) The Ladyes Delight...
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  • of American R&B and pop production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis "The Daemon Lover" aka "James Harris", British ballad James Fisher-Harris (born 1996)...
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    2004. Custer Larue recorded the song on her album The Daemon Lover. The Irish band Altan recorded a version of the ballad "The Wind and Rain" on their 2005...
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    "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 162 (Roud 223). There are two extant ballads under this title, both of which...
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  • "The Cherry-Tree Carol" (Roud 453) is a ballad with the rare distinction of being both a Christmas carol and one of the Child Ballads (no. 54). The song...
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  • Shirley Jackson (category The New Yorker people)
    15, 1943 "Concerning … Tomorrow", Syracusan, March 1939 "The Daemon Lover ['The Phantom Lover']", Woman's Home Companion, February 1949 "Daughter, Come...
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  • the 16th-century Scottish ballad "The Daemon Lover" and the final song recorded for Bob Dylan. Biographer Clinton Heylin described the song as "the most...
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  • effort to prevent the ballad from appearing treasonous. However, we can discount the ballad's claim that Moray was the Queen's lover (hinting at a possible...
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    outlaws. In J Tullos Hennig's 2014 "The Wode" series, Guy, born Gamelyn, was a childhood friend and eventual lover to Rob before becoming a Templar and...
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  • guarded by the bears on Svalbard. Near Bolvangar, the Gobbler research station, Lyra finds an abandoned child who has been cut from his dæmon; the Gobblers...
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    of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The tunes of most of the ballads...
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    Furthermore, a "fallow doe", a metaphor for the knight's pregnant ("as great with young as she might go") lover or mistress (see "leman") comes to his body...
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    Maid Marian (category Fictional characters introduced in the 16th century)
    is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions of the legend...
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    his lover. Randall explains that his lover gave him a dinner of eels boiled in broo and that his hunting dogs died after eating the scraps of the meal...
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    of "Barbara Allen" and 22 versions of "The Daemon Lover" (often called "The House Carpenter" in Appalachia). The work of Sharp and Karpeles confirmed what...
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    originating from the Scottish Borders. It is also associated with a reel of the same name, also known as the Glasgow Reel. The story revolves around the rescue...
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    "The False Lover Won Back" is a Scottish ballad, cataloged as Child Ballad 218 (Roud 201). Francis James Child cataloged the song as Child Ballad 218...
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  • was inspired by a character of the same name from a folk ballad, "The Daemon Lover", about a woman who is persuaded by the Devil to run away with him. Ferri...
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    Lincoln Memorial University (category Pages using infobox university with the nickname alias)
    world" ballads such as "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor", "The Daemon Lover", and "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight." LMU is known for a rich literary history...
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  • freedom from the executioner. Other variants and/or titles include "The Gallows Pole", "The Gallis Pole", "Hangman", "The Prickle-Holly Bush", "The Golden Ball"...
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    dating from the late 13th or early 14th century. It retells the story of Orpheus as a king who rescues his wife from the fairy king. The folk song Orfeo...
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  • which the lady must perform in order to be accepted as his lover. The first verse usually opens with the introduction of the title character: The elphin...
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    Hamish MacCunn (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    The Ship o' the Fiend, ballad, Op. 5 (fp. St James's Hall, London, 21 February 1888); based on the traditional ballad "The Daemon Lover" 1888 – The Dowie...
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  • her bed and goes to the king, saying the queen has taken a lover, and worse, a leper as that lover. The king goes to see and find the leper there. Accused...
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    thus this was the version that Walter Scott excerpted as Appendix. The Sloane MS. begins the second fytte with: "Heare begynethe þe ijd fytt I saye...
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  • Alan-a-Dale (category Fictional characters introduced in the 17th century)
    figure in the Robin Hood legend. According to the stories, he was a wandering minstrel who became a member of Robin's band of outlaws, the "Merry Men"...
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