Parsons. Tales from Guilford County NC

Today's free book is Tales from Guilford County NC by Elsie Clews Parsons (1917). 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. (a) Tar Baby 
(b) In the Briar-Patch
2. Big Fraid and Little Fraid
3. Playing Dead Twice in the Road 
4. Rabbit makes Fox his Riding-Horse 
5. The Race: Relay Trick
6. The Race: Slow but Steady 
7. Above the Ground and under the Ground
8. No Tracks Out
9. In the Chest
10. Pay Me Now
11. Talks Too Much
12. Dividing the Souls 
13. The Insult Midstream
14. Watcher Tricked 
15. The Insult Midstream; Watcher Tricked; Mock Funeral
16. Brush-Heap A-fire
17. The Spitting Hant
18. Fiddling for the Devil
19. "Fixed"
20. Alligator's Tail; In Briar-Patch
21. The Devil Marriage
22. Blue-Beard
23. Tickling 'Possum
24. The Frog
25. Woman up a Tree
26. Old Man on a Hunt 
27. Fishing on Sunday
28. The Little Girl and Her Snake 
29. The Woman-Horse
30. Racing the Train 
31. "Man Above" 
32. The Three Little Pigs
33. The Witch Spouse
34. Out of Her Skin 
35. Mustard-Seed 
36. Feasting on Dog 
37. Keeping Pace 
38. Buger 
39. The Witches and the Dogs
40. Fatal Imitation 
41. The Pumpkin 
42. The Turnip 
43. The Single Ball 
44. As Big a Fool 
45. Pleasing Everybody
46. (a) Playing Godfather
(b) Jumping over the Fire
47. The Step-Mother 
48. The Best Place 
49. Woman on House-Top
50. The Talking Bones
51. The Haunted House
52. The Black Cat 
53. Self-Confidence 
54. The Woman-Cat 
55. The Murderous Mother
56. The Cat who wanted Shoes 
57. Straw into Gold 
58. Three-Eyes 
59. The Frog who would fly
60. Brave Folks 
61. The Adulteress 
62. Anyhow