Journal of American Folklore. 6:23 (1893)

Today's free book is Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 6, No. 23 (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. Gerber. Uncle Remus Traced to the Old World (pp. 245-257)
Demoniacal Possession in Angola, Africa (p. 258)
Ellen Powell Thompson. Folk-Lore from Ireland. I (pp. 259-268)
The Pá-Lü-Lü-Koñ-Ti: A Tusayan Ceremony (pp. 269-284)
John Comfort Fillmore. A Woman's Song of the Kwakiutl Indians (pp. 285-290)
J. Owen Dorsey. Indian Doctrine of Souls (p. 298)
J. C. Wells. Weather and Moon Superstitions in Tennessee (pp. 298-300)
Burial of the Wren (p. 300)
Randolph Meikleham. A Negro Ballad (pp. 300-301)
Mrs. M. F. Hoagland. Notes on Old New England Customs (pp. 301-303)
Emily E. Ford. Bride-Stealing in New England (pp. 303-305)
A. M. Bacon. Dear Friends (pp. 305-309)

Book Reviews
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86 by J. W. Powell; Eighth Annual Report (pp. 320-322)
Old Rabbit the Voodoo and Other Stories by Mary Alicia Owen (pp. 322-324)
Chinese Nights' Entertainment by Adele M. Fielde (pp. 324-325)
Review by: H. Carrington Bolton
First Days amongst the Contrabands by Elizabeth Hyde Botume (pp. 325-326)
Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle (pp. 326-327)