Abraham Colles

Career Antiquarian / Writer

Biography Author of an article about the witches ladders in Folklore Journal, possibly an amateur antiquarian. See 'A Witches' Ladder' Abraham Colles The Folk-Lore Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1. (1887), pp. 1-5. An Abraham Colles [the only one] is listed in the 1901 census as being aged 33, born in Ireland and resident in Hampstead, London, a Doctor of Medicine', this may be the same person although he is probably too young [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 01/02/2007]

Biography References http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1744-2524%281887%295%3A1%3C1%3AAWL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N

County Somerset

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1911

Dates active ?1868-? active 1887

Donated around 1911

Owned 1911

English collections 2 witches ladders

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based Unknown

English collection size 2

Connections Edward Burnett Tylor / [Mr] possibly William Bubear