Journal of American Folklore. 6:20 (1893)

Today's free book is Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 6, No. 20 (1893). 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

A. F. Chamberlain. Human Physiognomy and Physical Characteristics in Folk-Lore and Folk-Speech (pp. 13-24)
H. Carrington Bolton. A Modern Oracle and Its Prototypes. A Study in Catoptromancy (pp. 25-37)
Mrs. C. V. Jamison. Signs and Omens from Nova Scotia (p. 38)
Franz Boas. The Doctrine of Souls and of Disease among the Chinook Indians (pp. 39-43)
George Bird Grinnell. A Blackfoot Sun and Moon Myth (pp. 44-47)
J. Owen Dorsey. Two Biloxi Tales (pp. 48-50)
Walter G. Chase. Notes from Alaska (pp. 51-53)
W. W. Newell. Lady Featherflight. An English Folk-Tale (pp. 54-62)
Christmas Customs in Newfoundland (p. 63)
Christmas "Fools" and "Mummers" in Newfoundland (pp. 63-65)
Superstitions in the Isle of Man (pp. 65-67)
John Albee. Pope Night: Fifth November (pp. 68-69)
Louise Kennedy. Child and Snake (p. 69)
Burning of an Amputated Limb (p. 69)
Preservation of Human Flesh (pp. 69-70)
Shooting Witches in Cream (p. 70)
A Possessed Owl (p. 70)
John MacNab Currier. Letter to the Rats (p. 70)
Dorothy Rockhill. The Magpie and the Fox (pp. 70-71)
John G. Bourke. The Song of the Ancient People (pp. 71-72)

Book Reviews
The International Folk-Lore Congress, 1891. Papers and Transactions by Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Nutt (pp. 76-77)
Blackfoot Lodge Tales. The Story of a Prairie People by George Bird Grinnell (pp. 77-79)
Aislinge Meic Conglinne: The Vision of Mac Conglinne by Kuno Meyer (p. 80)
Das Blutaberglaube in der Menschheit, Blutmorde und Blutritus by Hermann L. Strack (pp. 80-81)