Parsons. Folk-Lore from Aiken SC

Today's free book is Folk-Lore from Aiken SC by Elsie Clews Parsons (1921). 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

1. Playing Godfather: The  Grease Test
2. Playing Godfather: Tar Baby: Mock Plea 
3. Wife calls (Playing Godfather): Rabbit makes a Wolf his Horse
4. Fatal Imitation  
5. First Out 
6. Buried Tail 
7. Woman-Cat
8. Rabbit's Short Tail
9. Out of her Skin
10. Trouble in this World 
11. Playing Dead Twice on the Road
12. Fishing with Tail 
13. The Talking Mule
14. The Password 
15. The False Message: Take my Place
16. The Plug 
17. In the Well 
18. The Murderous Mother 
19. Three Little Pigs
20. The Five Kids
21. Three more Fools 
22. Feasting on Dog
23. Sure to die
24. A Big Black Man with Derby on
25. In the Bag 
26. Nobody but You, Directly
27. Moon Stories
28. You can’t get to Heaven  ’til you die
29. Master's Meat and Lard
30. Sympathy
31. Mr. Hard-Time
32. Box Lighter
33. Peanut-Planting
34. Rooster Fights
35. The Fiddle 
36. Toad-Frog's Tail

RIDDLES 
VERSES
RING-GAMES