Journal of American Folklore. 3:10 (1890)

Today's free book is Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 3, No. 10 (1890). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image; I have provided individual story titles where applicable.

The book is available at Hathi (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

Horatio Hale. "Above" and "Below." A Mythological Disease of Language (pp. 177-190)
Stewart Culin. Customs of the Chinese in America (pp. 191-200)
The Symbolism of Backgammon (p. 208)
Mrs. W. Wallace Brown. Wa-ba-ba-nal, or Northern Lights (pp. 213-214)
Francis La Flesche. The Omaha Buffalo Medicine-Men. An Account of Their Method of Practice (pp. 215-221)
H. Carrington Bolton. Gombay, a Festal Rite of Bermudian Negroes (pp. 222-226)
J. Owen Dorsey. The Gentile System of the Siletz Tribes (pp. 227-237)
Selling Warts (p. 238)
Please Give Me a Bow (p. 238)
Additional Notes on the Irish Tinkers and Their Language (pp. 238-239)
Spitting on the Hands (p. 240)
Gypsy Sorcery, Magic, and Fortune-Telling (pp. 240-241)
Mary H. Skeel. To Kill Cats Is Unlucky (p. 241)
Louise Kennedy. Voodoo and Vodun (p. 241)
C. G. Leland. Footprints (p. 242)
C. G. Leland. Salt River Tickets (p. 242)
H. Carrington Bolton. A Wabanaki Counting-out Rhyme (p. 242)
Julia D. Whiting. Three Jolly Welshmen (pp. 242-243)
Two Old Games (pp. 243-244)
W. M. Beauchamp. Iroquois Dog Feast (p. 244)
Note Written on the Fly-Leaf of a Book (p. 244)

Book Reviews
Chambers' Encyclopædia (p. 245)
The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs (pp. 245-248)
Korean Tales by H. N. Allen (p. 248)
Through Romany Songland by Laura Alexandrine Smith (pp. 248-249)
Songs of Fairy Land by Edward T. Mason (pp. 249-250)
Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin (pp. 250-252)
English Fairy and Other Folk-Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland (p. 252)
Flowers from a Persian Garden, and Other Papers by W. A. Clouston (pp. 252-253)