Today's free book is Folklore from Nova Scotia by Arthur Huff Fauset (1931). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.
The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).
Table of Contents
I. FOLK TALES.
MARCHEN.
1. Big Hunter and Little Hunter
2. Cinderella
3. Raptail
4. The Magic Flight: Lady Greencorn
Variant: Fine Birdie and Willena
5. The Clever Wife
6. Bluebeard
7. Seven Tongues
8. The Three Brothers
9. Sponge, Ax and Pick
10. The Grateful Spirits
11. Charlotte
12. Open Sesame
13. The Girl Who Asked for a Riddle
14. The Most Useful Thing
15. The Old Woman and her Pig
16. The Tablecloth, the Mare and the Stump
17. The Interrupted Dinner
18. The Good Boy and the Bad
Variant: Jack Proves he Killed the Dragon
19. The Slave Takes his Master's Place
20. Master Disguised
ANIMAL TALES.
21. Tar Baby
22. Mock Plea
23. Incriminating the Other Fellow; Rabbit Betrays Bear
24. Braggart and the Bear
25. Fox and Ape: Deceiving the Farmer
26. Brer Nancy Avoids Trouble
27. Why Dog is so Slim around the Band
28. The Smartest Man
29. Brer Tacoma's Head in a Pumpkin
30. Lazy Nancy Gets His Share
31. Brer Lion Invites Dog and Goat to Dinner
32. Monkey and Parrot in Business
33. The Sick Monkey
34. The Tug of War
PAT AND MIKE AND TALL TALES.
35. Take One from the Bottom
36. Riding Into Heaven
37. The Riddle Test
38. Three Dreams
39. Pat and the Clock
40. Deaf and Dumb
41. Goat Stops the Train
42. Three Tailors
43. Mike Shoots Pat Ashore
44. Trimmed to Suit
45. Why They Were Cold
46. Pat Puts on Airs
47. Pat Does Penance
48. Fast Traveling
49. All Dressed Up and No Place to Go
50. Pat's Prayer
51. Let me Spit in my Hands
52. What Will Come Up?
53. Cut a Hole in the Bottom of the Fence
54. Rooster, Cat and Jackass
55. Fence Up Again
56. Comers and Goers
57. Fireflies
58. Look Out
59. Colt and Wheelbarrow
60. Getting Evidence
61. The Mother of God
62. Smartest Son
63. "Too Hot for Me"
64. "The Nigger Instead of Me"
65. Gooseberry Gallows
66. Cow in Partnership
67. On the Roof
68. Money in the Ground
69. Waiting for Mike to Whistle
70. Missing Word
71. What Darkens the Hole
72. Jug a Rum
73. Running the Bear In
74. The Famous Wedding
75. Catching Rabbit
76. Harnessing a Bear
77. The Great Cabbage
78. Three Men in Shipwreck
79. Hay
80. Inside Ou
81. Rain
82. Cold Weather
83. The Big Tree
84. The Marvelous Gale
85. Lightning
86. Found Another
87. The W onderful Catch
88. The Returning Bullet
89. Bugs
90. Albatross
91. Armful of Eels
92. Old Time Skating
93. Railroads
94. Smokestack Lassoed
95. Trout, Partridge and Bear
96. One Shot
97. Only Legs
98. Pups Catch Ducks
99. Duck Stew
100. The Soldiers who Swam the English Channel
WITCH AND DEVIL TALES.
101. The Transparent Dog
102. Ball of Fire
103. The Mysterious Cape
104. A Dance and the Devil
105. Red Diamonds
106. Sell Yourself to the Devil
107. The Devil's Visit
108. The Devil's Book
109. Jack and the Devil
110. Charms
111. The Fairy and the Baby
112. Born with a Caul
113. Jimmy Allen's Ghost
114. Dressed in White
115. Tall as a Telegraph Post
116. The Haunted Room
117. The Haunted Attic
118. The Haunted House
119. Racing a Ghost
120. "Rabbit, If You Can't Run, Get Out De Road."
121. Outruns his Shadow
122. Over the Church
123. The Unshaved Ghost
124. Ghost in Bed
125. Woman-Cat
126. Woman-Hen
127. Black Cat
128. Bewitched by a Lizard
129. The Annapolis Witch
TALES OF TREASURE.
130. Money Under a Tombstone
131. Lepricorn
132. Ball of Fire
133. Digging Money
134. Buried Treasure
135. Dreams of Treasure
136. Disappearing Treasure
137. Treasure and Lights
138. Directions to Treasure
139. Thunder Box
140. The Milkman's Luck
PREACHER TALES AND OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES.
141. Only in Fun
142. Explanations Later
143. Blow Your Trumpet
144. What Gabriel Said
145. "Be the Devil"
146. Why Jesus Walked on the Sea of Galilee
147. Just Imagine
148. The Baptist
149. Believe Anything for Rum
150. Why he Went to Church
151. Following the Lord
152. Disappearing Preacher
153. By God!
154. Flapjacks
155. The Best White Horse is Dead
156. The First Steamer
157. The Laziest Man
158. Bluffing Death
159. Black
160. The Runaway Slave
161. Cow Gut River
162. TNT: Travel Nigger Travel
163. Jus' Playin'
164. Picking Towser's Bones
165. Clever Ab
166. The Composite Picture
167. Robbers' House
168. Counting Souls
169. The Disintegrating Husband
170. The Contented Old Lady
171. The Cloth Man
172. Jim Grey Stories
II. BALLADS AND SONGS.
1. Pretty Polly
2. Returning Soldier
3. Butcher Boy
4. As I Walked Out One May Morning
5. Barbara Allen
6. My Pretty Mohea
7. It's the Danger of the Sea
8. Blow the Man IDown!
9. Hold the Wood Pile Down
10. The Outfit
11. Old Uncle Ne
12. W ife's Complaint
13. In a Lonely Graveyard
14. Oh Baltimore!
15. Goin' to de Shuckin'
16. Ham Fat, Ham
17. Juba
18. Hobo Toast
19. Ballad told as Prose: The Scotchman who loved an Irish Girl
20. Ballad told as Prose: The Sailor Lover
III. GAME SONGS AND COUNTING-OUT RHYMES
IV. NURSERY RHYMES AND OTHER VERSES
V. RIDDLE TALES AND RIDDLES
VI. FOLK NOTIONS
I. OMENS: GOOD OR BAD LUCK
1. Cosmic Phenomena
2. Plants
3. Animals
M ammals
Arachnids
Birds
4. Dreams
5. Human Beings
6. Household
House
Clothes
Furniture and Utensils
Tools
7. Names
8. Vessels
II. OMENS: DEFINITE
1. Weather Signs
Diurnal Weather Signs
Animal Weather Signs
Various Weather Signs
Seasonal Weather Signs
2. Animals
Mammals
Reptiles
Arachnids
Insects
Birds
Poultry
Fish
3. Dreams
4. Personal Appearance and Behavior
Appearance
Behavior of Parts of the Body
Miscellaneous Activities
5. Household
H ouse
Fire and Light
Clothes
Food
Furniture and Accessories
6. Number
7. Vessels
III. RURAL LIFE
1. Planting
2. Poultry and Insects
3. Kitchen Lore
4. Fishing and Trapping
IV. COUNTERACTANTS
V. CHARMS
VI. CARE OF BODY
VII. DIVINATION
VIII. TREASURE HUNTING
IX. WITCHCRAFT
X. CONJURING
XI. FOLK-MEDICINE
1. Warts
2. Fits
3. Asthma
4. Nose Bleed
5. Bleeding at Lungs
6. Whooping-cough
7. Abortives
8. Insect Sting
9. General
XII. PREGNANCY, BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD
XIII. DEATH
1. Dead and Dying
2. Premonitions of Death
XIV. MONTHS AND DAYS
1. Days of the Week
General
Sunday
Monday
Thursday
Friday
2. New Year's Day
3. Twelfth Night
4. St. Valentine's Day
5. Candlemas Day
6. April Fool's Day
7. Easter
8. May Day
9. St. Swithin's Day
10. Hallowe'en
11. Guy Fawkes' Day
XV. GROUP NICKNAMES
XVI. QUIPS AND SAYINGS
