This chapbook includes a divination manual called the Oraculum, which was reputed to have been used by Napoleon, and predicted the future through a series of marks. The predictions are associated with a number of provided questions, focusing on…

A collection of 23 songs and ballads on a wide variety of themes. Some are humorous, others are disturbingly tragic, such as The Mistletoe Bough, in which a young bride playfully hides from her young husband in an oak chest that then accidentally…

A collection of songs and ballads on a variety of topics. The first is a humorous song describing the beauty (or lack of it) of the sharp-tongued Molly O’Rigge who still manages to be courted by the local tea-dealer, who she rejects, and Cornelius…

This is a comical Scots tale about a simple sack-weaver who decides it is high time he married. Taking advice from his mother, he decides to woo one of the butcher’s three daughters, two of whom have bastards by other men, and one who has a…

A collection of songs and ballads on a variety of topics. The title song is a romantic ballad on the love a young man has for his lover, his desire to lavish attention, money, and love upon her, rejecting the will of his parents in order to one day…

A collection of songs and ballads on a variety of themes and topics. The first song is lament of an Irish lass whose lover has gone off to war in France, while the second describes the efforts young women go to in order to attract the handsome young…