De Molen in Ons Volksleven
Full details
| English title | The mill in our folk life |
| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | AW Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij NV |
| Year of publication | 1958 |
| Languages | Dutch (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | |
| Tags | |
| Scope & content | Foreword by the author. Chapter headings translated There follows an index of geographical names, a survey of illustrated types of mills, and a list of illustrations. |
Copies held
Accession no. 21688
- Shelf location: C112-CAA
- Donor: Ken Major Collection
- Advance notice required to view in person
Divisions within this publication
- 1: The right to the wind and the right of access to milling
- 2: Payment for grain milling in kind
- 3: Early taxation of milling
- 4: The secret code of cyphers
- 5: Night milling in industrial mills
- 6: Night milling in drainage mills
- 7: Sunday milling
- 8: Milling for the prince
- 9: ‘Hedge-millers’ – trade organizations
- 10: St Victor, patron saint of corn-millers
- 11: A little talk about the weather
- 12: The miller’s life in the vernacular
- 13: Fishing at the drainage mills
- 14: Fishing at water-wheel mills
- 15: Games, humour and festivities at windmills
- 16: Toy and model mills
- 17: Old practices all year round
- 18: Rhymes about mills
- 19: Rhymes using names of mills
- 20: Riddles about mills
- 21: Goblins milling grain
- 22: Ghosts in mills
- 23: Legends and folk-tales about mills
- 24: Millers’ Latin
- 25: Of corn-mills, church, monasteries and poor-houses
- 26: The link between marksmen’s guilds and corn-mills
- 27: ‘Mill-talk’
- 28: Mills and good luck
- 29: Mills and mourning
- 30: Festive finery
- 31: Loyalty to the house of Orange
- 32: ‘Beautifying’ on the Zaan
- 33: Going into mourning on the Zaan
- 34: Other sets of sails
- 35: Signalling with the help of mill-sails
- 36: The mill-iron
- 37: Silver mill goblets
- 38: Names of mills outside the Zaan area
- 39: Names of Zaan mills
- 40: Architectural beauty of mills
- 41: Painting of mills
- 42: Mill ‘beards’ (name-plates)
- 43: Gable-stones
- 44: Painted name-boards
- 45: Decorated projections
- 46: Figures in the thatch
