Backus. Folk-Tales from Georgia and North Carolina

Today's free book is Folk-Tales from Georgia and Tales of the Rabbit from Georgia Negroes by Emma M. Backus; this is an article in Journal of American Folklore v. 12 (1899) and v. 13 (1900), plus Negro Tales from Georgia by Emma M. Backus and Ethel Hatton Leitner from JAF v. 25 (1912).

In addition to the Georgia stories, I have also included this item from JAF v. 11 (1898): Animal Tales from North Carolina. 

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Folk-Tales from Georgia

1. When Brer Rabbit Get Brer Bear Churched
2. When Brer Rabbit was Presiding' Elder
3. When Brer Wolf Have His Corn Shucking
4. Brer Rabbit's Cool Air Swing
5. When Brer Fox Don't Fool Brer Rabbit
6. When Brer Frog Give a Big Dining
7. When Sis Coon Put Down Brer Bear
8. How Come the Mooly Cow Don' Have No Horns
9. When Mr. Pine-Tree and Mr. Oak-Tree Fall Out
10. How the Little Boy Went to Heaven

Tales of the Rabbit from Georgia Negroes

1. How Brer Rabbit Practise Medicine
2. Why the People Tote Brer Rabbit Foot in their Pocket
3. Brer Rabbit Born to Luck
4. Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit
5. How Brer Rabbit Bring Dust out of the Rock
6. When Brer Rabbit Save the Pig

Negro Tales from Georgia

1. When Brer Rabbit Saw Brer Dog's Mouth
2. Bro' Rabbit An' De Water-Millions
3. Bro' Fox An' De Foolish Jay-Bird
4. When Brer Rabbit Help Brer Terapin
5. When Brer Possum Attend Miss Fox's House-Party
6. How Brer Fox Dream He Eat Brer Possum
7. Superstition of the Graveyard Snake and Rabbit
8. Why Mr. Owl Can't Sing
9. The Negro's Superstition of the Spanish Moss

Animal Tales from North Carolina

1. When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race
2. When Mr. Terrapin Went Riding on the Clouds
3. Why the Spider Never Got in the Ark
4. How Come Brer Bar Sleep in the Winter
5. How Come Mr. Buzzard to Have a Bald Head
6. The Wooly Crows
7. How Come the Pigs Can See the Wind

Journal of American Folklore 8:31 (1895)

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Table of Contents

J. Walter Fewkes. The Oraibi Flute Altar (pp. 265-284)
George Patterson. Notes on the Folk-Lore of Newfoundland (pp. 285-290)
John O'Neill. Straw (pp. 291-298)
Henry Carrington Bolton. Fortune-Telling in America To-Day. A Study of Advertisements (pp. 299-307)
Charlotte C. Herr. Litiz (pp. 308-312)
W. M. Beauchamp. An Iroquois Condolence (pp. 313-316)
Tree-Planting at Childbirth (pp. 323-324)
A Pueblo Rabbit-Hunt (pp. 324-327)
Mrs. F. B. Knapp. A Nursery Yarn (p. 327)

Book Reviews
Chinook Texts by Franz Boas (pp. 328-330)
Korean Games. With Notes on the corresponding Games of China and Japan by Stewart Culin (pp. 331-332)
The Legend of Perseus. A study of Tradition in Story, Custom, and Belief by Edwin Sidney Hartland (pp. 332-334)
The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living by Kuno Meyer (pp. 334-335)

Journal of American Folklore 8:30 (1895)

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Table of Contents

Heli Chatelain. Some Causes of the Retardation of African Progress (pp. 177-184)
Adele M. Fielde. The Character of Chinese Folk-Tales (pp. 185-191)
Emma M. Backus. Superstitions from Connecticut (p. 192)
Edward Jack. Maliseet Legends (pp. 193-208)
W. M. Beauchamp. Onondaga Notes (pp. 209-216)
W. M. Beauchamp. Mohawk Notes (pp. 217-221)
Reginald Pelham Bolton. The Cockney and His Dialect (pp. 222-229)
Mrs. E. Allen. The Lady in the West. (A Ballad.) (p. 230)
W. W. Newell. Folk-Lore Study and Folk-Lore Societies (pp. 231-242)
Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. III. Bahama Songs and Stories (pp. 243-246)
The Aims of Anthropology (pp. 247-249)
The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe (pp. 249-250)
The Origin of Playing - Cards (pp. 250-251)
Negro Superstitions in South Carolina (pp. 251-252)
A. F. Chamberlain. Folk-Lore of Canadian Children (pp. 252-255)
Alice Leon. Variants of Counting-out Rhymes (pp. 255-256)
G. P. Bradley. The Ballad of Bold Dickie (pp. 256-258)
H. Carrington Bolton. The Black String (pp. 259-260)

Journal of American Folklore 8:29 (1895)

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Table of Contents

J. W. Powell. The Interpretation of Folk-Lore (pp. 97-105)
W. W. N. Plantation Courtship. II (p. 106)
J. N. B. Hewitt. The Iroquoian Concept of the Soul (pp. 107-116)
Zelia Nuttall. A Note on Ancient Mexican Folk-Lore (pp. 117-129)
J. Owen Dorsey. Kwapa Folk-Lore (pp. 130-131)
J. Walter Fewkes. The Destruction of the Tusayan Monsters (pp. 132-137)
John Comfort Fillmore. What Do Indians Mean to Do When They Sing, and How Far Do They Succeed? (pp. 138-142)
English Folk-Tales in America. The Three Brothers and the Hag (pp. 143-144)
Henry Carrington Bolton. The Game of Goose (pp. 145-150)
Pigments Used by Children in Their Play (p. 151)
Violet Fights (pp. 151-152)
Poppy Shows (pp. 152-153)
Nominies (pp. 153-155)
Courtship Formulas of Southern Negroes (pp. 155-156)
George W. Moorehouse. Superstitious Explanation of Patches of Warm Air (p. 157)
George W. Moorehouse. Superstition Relating to the Color of Horses (p. 157)
Herman T. Lukens. Speech of Children (pp. 158-159)
Randolph Meikleham. Rhyme Relating to a Scold (pp. 159-160)

Book Reviews
The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus by Oliver Elton, Frederick York Powell (pp. 166-168)
The Man Who Married the Moon, and Other Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories by Charles F. Lummis (pp. 168-169)
The Madonna of St. Luke by Mrs. Henrietta Irving Bolton (pp. 169-170)

Journal of American Folklore 8:28 (1895)

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Table of Contents

W. W. Newell. Theories of Diffusion of Folk-Tales (pp. 7-18)
Fanny D. Bergen. Burial and Holiday Customs and Beliefs of the Irish Peasantry (pp. 19-25)
Emma Backus. Weather-Signs from Connecticut (p. 26)
George Patterson. Notes on the Dialect of the People of Newfoundland (pp. 27-40)
John G. Bourke. The Folk-Foods of the Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mexico (pp. 41-71)
Louisiana Folk-Tales (p. 72)
Henry Carrington Bolton. The Porta Magica, Rome (pp. 73-78)
Nominies (pp. 81-84)
Popular Formulas in Massachusetts (pp. 84-85)
W. W. Newell. Custom of Wearing Gold Beads (p. 85)
Customs and Superstitions of the Rio Grande (pp. 85-86)
John G. Bourke. The Lode-Stone (p. 86)
Ellen Chase. An Accumulative Lullaby (pp. 86-88)

Book Reviews
Picture-Writing of the American Indians by Garrick Mallery (pp. 92-94)
Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry by Alfred M. Williams (pp. 94-95)
Diary of Anna Green Winslow. A Boston Schoolgirl of I77I by Anna Green Winslow, Alice Morse Earle (pp. 95-96)
Korean Games (p. 96)

Journal of American Folklore 7:27 (1894)

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Table of Contents

J. Walter Fewkes. The Walpi Flute Observance: A Study of Primitive Dramatization (pp. 265-288)
Heli Chatelain. African Races (pp. 289-302)
Heli Chatelain. African Fetishism (pp. 303-304)
Ruby Andrews Moore. Superstitions from Georgia. II (pp. 305-306)
Geo. A. Dorsey. A Ceremony of the Quichuas of Peru (pp. 307-309)
E. M. Backus. Cradle-Songs of Negroes in North Carolina (p. 310)
W. W. N. Folk-Tales of Angola. II (pp. 311-316)
Louisiana Folk-Tales (p. 317)
Mortuary Customs and Beliefs of South Carolina Negroes (pp. 318-319)
Sacredness of the North (p. 320)
G. M. Godden. Clothed Images (p. 321)
Stone Flakes Used for Gashing by Way of Penance (pp. 321-322)
Marshall H. Saville. The Maya Word Pax (p. 322)

Book Reviews
The Snake Ceremonials at Walpi by J. Walter Fewkes (pp. 324-327)
The Night of the Gods. An Inquiry into Cosmic and Cosmogonic My- thology and Symbolism by John O'Neill (pp. 328-329)
The Legend of Perseus. A Study of Tradition in Story, Custom, and Belief by Edwin Sidney Hartland (pp. 329-330)
Georgian Folk-Tales by Marjory Wardrop (p. 330)

Journal of American Folklore 7:26 (1894)

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Table of Contents

Washington Matthews. Songs of Sequence of the Navajos (pp. 185-194)
A. F. Chamberlain. A Kootenay Legend: The Coyote and the Mountain-Spirit (pp. 195-196)
George Bird Grinnell. A Pawnee Star Myth (pp. 197-200)
J. C. Hamilton. Two Algonquin Legends. The Loon and the Ka-Kakè (pp. 201-204)
Notes on the Eskimo of Port Clarence, Alaska (pp. 205-208)
Harlan I. Smith. Notes on Eskimo Traditions (pp. 209-216)
Pamela McArthur Cole. New England Funerals (pp. 217-223)
Ellen Powell Thompson. Folk-Lore from Ireland. II (pp. 224-227)
American Versions of the Ballad of the Elfin Knight (pp. 228-232)
Henrietta Irving Bolton. Curious Relics of English Funerals (pp. 233-236)
Marshall H. Saville. A Comparative Study of the Graven Glyphs of Copan and Quirigua. A Preliminary Paper (pp. 237-247)
Ritual Regarded as the Dramatization of Myth (pp. 248-249)
Navajo Rite-Myths (pp. 249-250)
Intelligence and Originality of Primitive Man (pp. 250-251)
Sarah Bridge Farmer. Folk-Lore of Marblehead, Mass (pp. 252-253)
Tale of the Skunks (p. 253)
W. W. N. The Ballad of Sweet William and Gentle Jenny (pp. 253-255)

Book Review
Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology by C. Staniland Wake (pp. 259-260)
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Alice Bertha Gomme (pp. 260-262)
Children's Singing Games by Alice B. Gomme (p. 262)
Bibliografia delle Tradizioni Popolari d' Italia by Giuseppe Pitrè (pp. 262-263)
Annuaire des Traditions Populaires (pp. 263-264)
Le Folklore Wallon by Eugène Monseur (p. 264)

Journal of American Folklore 7:25 (1894)

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Table of Contents

Fanny D. Bergen. Popular American Plant-Names. III (pp. 89-104)
J. Hampden Porter. Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Mountain Whites of the Alleghanies (pp. 105-117)
Sarah A. P. Andrews. Three Epitaphs of the Seventeenth Century (p. 118)
John G. Bourke. Popular Medicine, Customs, and Superstitions of the Rio Grande (pp. 119-146)
Frank D. Banks. Plantation Courtship (pp. 147-149)
The Settlement and Early Social Condition of Kentucky (1775-1792) (pp. 150-152)
Folk-Tales of Angola (p. 152)
W. W. N. Italian Marionettes in Boston (p. 153)
Folk-Belief in the Virginia Lowlands (pp. 153-154)
Mrs. Abigail M. Holmes Christensen. Spirituals and "Shouts" of Southern Negroes (pp. 154-155)
Dr. Bulmer. Demon-Worship in Southern India (pp. 156-157)

Book Reviews
The Legends of the Micmacs by Silas Tertius Rand (pp. 163-164)
Primitive Music: An Inquiry into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs, Dances, and Pantomimes of Savage Races by Richard Wallascheck (pp. 165-169)
A Study of Omaha Indian Music by Francis La Flesche, John Comfort Fillmore, Alice C. Fletcher (pp. 169-171)
Louisiana Studies. Literature, Customs and Dialects, History and Edu- cation by Alcée Fortier (pp. 171-172)
Nagualism. A Study in Native American Folk-Lore and History by Daniel G. Brinton (pp. 172-174)

Journal of American Folklore 7:24 (1894)

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Table of Contents

Horatio Hale. The Fall of Hochelaga: A Study of Popular Tradition (pp. 1-14)
John Batchelor. Items of Ainu Folk-Lore (pp. 15-44)
Franz Boas. Eskimo Tales and Songs (pp. 45-50)
Stewart Culin. Retrospect of the Folk-Lore of the Columbian Exposition (pp. 51-59)
W. W. N. A Remarkable Oath (p. 60)
W. W. N. Folk-Tales of Angola (pp. 61-65)
Beliefs of Southern Negroes concerning Hags (pp. 66-67)
G. P. Bradley. Burial Custom Formerly Observed in the Naval Service (pp. 67-69)
On the Origin of Some Popular Oaths (pp. 69-70)
W. W. Newell. The Origin of Cinderella (pp. 70-72)
Friederich S. Krauss. Jewish Folk-Life in America (pp. 72-75)

Book Reviews
Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-88 by John J. W. Powell; Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch; The Medicine-Men of the Apache by John G. Bourke (pp. 80-82)
Codice Maya denominado Cortesiano (pp. 82-83)
Canzoni Popolare Toscane by Janet Ross (p. 83)

Journal of American Folklore. 6:23 (1893)

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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)

Journal of American Folklore. 6:22 (1893)

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Table of Contents

John Maclean. Blackfoot Mythology (pp. 165-172)
W. M. Beauchamp. Onondaga Tales (pp. 173-180)
W. M. Beauchamp. Notes on Onondaga Dances (pp. 181-184)
C. A. Fraser. Scottish Myths from Ontario (pp. 185-198)
George Truman Kercheval. An Otoe and an Omaha Tale (pp. 199-204)
Charles Godfrey Leland. Aldegonda, the Fairy of Joy. An Italian Tale (pp. 228-231)
Mrs. Lucien Howe and W. W. N. The Burial of the Wren (pp. 231-232)
J. Owen Dorsey. Modern Additions to Indian Myths, and Indian Thunder Superstitions (pp. 232-233)
H. D. Rolfe. Writing to the Rats (p. 233)

Journal of American Folklore. 6:21 (1893)

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Table of Contents

John G. Bourke. The Miracle Play of the Rio Grande (pp. 89-95)
The Diffusion of Song-Games (p. 96)
Alice Morse Earle. Old-Time Marriage Customs in New England (pp. 97-102)
Pamela McArthur Cole. New England Weddings (pp. 103-107)
Albert S. Gatschet. Report of an Indian Visit to Jack Wilson, the Payute Messiah (pp. 108-111)
Albert S. Gatschet. Medicine Arrows of the Oregon Indians (pp. 111-112)
George Bird Grinnell. Pawnee Mythology (pp. 113-130)
Lila W. Edmands. Songs from the Mountains of North Carolina (pp. 131-134)
Fanny D. Bergen. Popular American Plant-Names. II (pp. 135-142)
Hunting the Wren (pp. 143-144)
Mary E. Chamberlain. Certain Common Superstitions (pp. 144-146)
Pamela McArthur Cole. The Sign of the Cross (p. 146)
E. Foster. Divination with an Egg (p. 146)
Margaret C. Whiting. Decoration of a New-Built House (p. 147)
Harriet Maxwell Converse. Induction of Women into Iroquois Tribes (pp. 147-148)
Epitaphs and Names (pp. 149-150)
Armenian Fairy Tales (p. 150)
The Youngest of the Three (pp. 150-152)

Book Reviews
Cinderella by Marian Roalfe Cox (pp. 159-161)
Old Rabbit the Voodoo and Other Sorcerers by Mary Alicia Owen (pp. 161-162)

Journal of American Folklore. 6:20 (1893)

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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)

Journal of American Folklore. 5:19 (1892)

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Alfred M. Williams. Folk-Songs of the Civil War (pp. 265-283)
W. M. Beauchamp. Rhymes from Old Powder-Horns. II (pp. 284-290)
A. F. Chamberlain. A Mississaga Legend of Nā′nībōjū′ (pp. 291-292)
J. Owen Dorsey. Nanibozhu in Siouan Mythology (pp. 293-304)
D. P. Penhallow. Epitaphal Inscriptions (pp. 305-317)
Gertrude Decrow. Folk-Lore from Maine (pp. 318-320)
Mary Chapman. Notes on the Chinese in Boston (pp. 321-324)
W. W. N. Old English Songs in American Versions (pp. 325-326)
Lutins in the Province of Quebec (pp. 327-328)
Friday Not an Unlucky Day according to Columbus (pp. 328-329)
The Serpent-Woman of Hatton Lake (p. 329)
Negro Superstition concerning the Violin (pp. 329-330)
Scandalizing the Rats (p. 330)
Superstitions of Negroes in New Orleans (pp. 330-332)
Burying Dogs in Central Africa (p. 332)
The Twenty-One Precepts of the Ottawa Indians (pp. 332-334)
Washington Matthews. The Ceremonial Circuit (pp. 334-335)
John Albee. Pope Night in Portsmouth, N. H. (pp. 335-336)
Mary E. Chamberlain. Drawing a Cross for Luck (p. 336)
Mrs. Mary E. Chamberlain. Folk-Lore from Northern New York (pp. 336-337)
A. L. Alger. An Old Charm (p. 337)

Book Review
Ethnology in Folk-Lore by George Laurence Gomme (pp. 340-341)
Die Bakaïrí-Sprache by Karl Von den Steinen (pp. 341-342)

Journal of American Folklore. 5:18 (1892)

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D. G. Brinton. Reminiscences of Pennsylvania Folk-Lore (pp. 177-185)
Charles Godfrey Leland. The Folk-Lore of Straw (pp. 186-188)
J. Walter Fewkes and A. M. Stephens. The Nā-Ác-Nai-Ya: A Tusayan Initiation Ceremony (pp. 189-221)
W. W. N. Observation of Primitive Ritual (p. 222)
W. M. Beauchamp. Iroquois Notes (pp. 223-229)
Ruby Andrews Moore. Superstitions in Georgia (pp. 230-231)
James Deans. The Doom of the Katt-a-Quins. From the Aboriginal Folk-Lore of Southern Alaska (pp. 232-235)
Calling on the Devil to Cure Disease (p. 238)
Marriage Superstitions in Scotland (pp. 238-239)
Folk-Lore at the Columbian Exposition (pp. 239-240)
Seneca E. Truesdell. "Injun-Giving" (pp. 240-241)
W. J. P. Peter Piper versus Peter Pipernus (p. 241)
John G. Bourke. Custom of "Measuring" Sick Children (pp. 241-242)
Jane H. Newell. Superstitions of Irish Origin in Boston, Mass (pp. 242-243)
Mark W. Harrington. Weather Proverbs in the United States (p. 243)
Mrs. S. D. Derrickson. Various Superstitions (pp. 243-244)

Book Reviews
The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon by Albert Samuel Gatschet (pp. 252-255)
The C̷egiha Language by James Owen Dorsey (pp. 255-257)
Games, Ancient and Oriental, and How to Play Them by Edward Falkener (pp. 257-258)
Afro-American Folk-Lore by A. M. H. Christensen (pp. 258-260)
The Iroquois Trail, or Foot-prints of the Six Nations, in Custom, Tradi- tions, and History by W. M. Beauchamp (pp. 260-261)

Journal of American Folklore. 5:17 (1892)

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Fanny D. Bergen. Popular American Plant-Names (pp. 89-106)
J. Howard Gore. The Go-Backs (pp. 107-109)
Collins Lee. Some Negro Lore from Baltimore (pp. 110-112)
N. C. Hoke. Folk-Custom and Folk-Belief in North Carolina (pp. 113-120)
Octave Thanet. Folk-Lore in Arkansas (pp. 121-125)
James W. Terrell. The Demon of Consumption. A Legend of Cherokees in North Carolina (pp. 125-126)
George Bird Grinnell. Development of a Pawnee Myth: Ti-Kē-Wá-Kūsh: The Man Who Called the Buffalo (pp. 127-134)
Alice C. Fletcher. Hae-thu-ska Society of the Omaha Tribe (pp. 135-144)
A Woman Elected a Chief of the Six Nations (pp. 146-147)
School Children in Gloucestershire (p. 147)
T. W. Higginson. [I Well Recall the List of Alliterative Lines] (pp. 147-148)
Abby L. Alger. Peacock Feathers (p. 148)
Abby L. Alger. Christmas Garlands (p. 148)
Helen P. Kane. Reception by the Dead (p. 148)
F. G. Adams. A Counting-out Rhyme (p. 148)
J. Walter Fewkes. Ceremonial Circuit (p. 148)
Elizabeth M. Howe. Drawing a Cross to Avert Ill-Luck (p. 149)
Thomas Nelson. Test for Witchcraft in New Jersey, 1730 (p. 149)
Gertrude M. Godden. Chained or Fettered Images (pp. 150-151)

Book Reviews
Ifika ni Jinongonongo by Jiheng'ele Jisabu, Jakim Ria Matta (pp. 168-169)
Traditions Populaires du Doubs by Ch. Thuriet (pp. 169-172)

Journal of American Folklore. 5:16 (1892)

Today's free book is Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 5, No. 16 (1892). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image; I have provided individual story titles where applicable.

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Table of Contents


Henry R. Lang. The Portuguese Element in New England (pp. 9-18)
Fanny D. Bergen. Some Bits of Plant-Lore (pp. 19-22)
William Wells Newell. Conjuring Rats (pp. 23-32)
J. Walter Fewkes. The Ceremonial Circuit among the Village Indians of Northeastern Arizona (pp. 33-42)
James Deans. Legend of the Fin-Back Whale Crest of the Haidas, Queen Charlotte's Island, B. C. (pp. 43-47)
Collection of Folk-Lore in Finland (p. 48)
Frank Hamilton Cushing. A Zuñi Folk-Tale of the Underworld (pp. 49-56)
Mrs. W. Wallace Brown. "Chief-Making" among the Passamaquoddy Indians (pp. 57-59)
Proverbs and Phrases (p. 60)
Superstitions of the "Crackers" in Georgia (p. 62)
Method of Challenge among California Indians (p. 62)
The Luck of the Number Three (pp. 62-63)
Divination with the Sifter (p. 63)
Crossing the Back (pp. 63-64)
Tabasheer (pp. 64-65)
Ghost Dance in Arizona (pp. 65-68)
H. Carrington Bolton. "Injun-Giving" (p. 68)
Ernest Ingersoll. Decoration of Negro Graves (pp. 68-69)
Fanny D. Bergen. Quilt Patterns (p. 69)
Charles Godfrey Leland. Another "Witch's Ladder" (p. 70)
W. W. Newell. Primitive Marriage Customs as Preserved in the Games of Children (pp. 70-71)
William John Potts. Creation Myth of the Assinaboines (pp. 72-73)
William John Potts. Creation Myth of the California Indians (pp. 73-74)
William John Potts. Peter Piper's Proper Pronunciation of Perfect English versus Peter Pipernus (pp. 74-76)

Book Reviews
Mann und Fuchs by Kaarle Krohn (pp. 83-84)
Poesie dei Popoli selvaggi o poco civili by G. Ragusa-Moleti (pp. 84-85)
Traditions et Superstitions de la Boulangerie by Paul Sébillot (pp. 85-86)

Journal of American Folklore. 4:15 (1891)

Today's free book is Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 4, No. 15 (1891). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image; I have provided individual story titles where applicable.

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Horatio Hale. Huron Folk-Lore. III. The Legend of the Thunderers (pp. 289-294)
W. M. Beauchamp. Hi-a-wat-ha (pp. 295-306)
George Bird Grinnell. The Young Dog's Dance (pp. 307-313)
Adelene Moffat. The Mountaineers of Middle Tennessee (pp. 314-320)
Frederick Starr. Some Pennsylvania German Lore (pp. 321-326)
R. L. Packard. Notes on the Mythology and Religion of the Nez Perces (pp. 327-330)
J. Owen Dorsey. The Social Organization of the Siouan Tribes (pp. 331-342)
Alb. S. Gatschet. Roumanian Folk-Lore (pp. 352-353)
Alb. S. Gatschet. Schlossar's Collection of Popular Plays (pp. 353-354)
Mary Mann - Page Newton. Aunt Deborah Goes Visiting: A Sketch from Virginian Life (pp. 354-356)

Book Reviews
The Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle (pp. 356-358)

Journal of American Folklore. 4:14 (1891)

Today's free book is Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 4, No. 14 (1891). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image; I have provided individual story titles where applicable.

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A. F. Chamberlain. Nanibozhu amongst the Otchipwe, Mississagas, and Other Algonkian Tribes (pp. 193-213)
H. Carrington Bolton. Decoration of Graves of Negroes in South Carolina (p. 214)
William Wells Newell. The Carol of the Twelve Numbers (pp. 215-220)
Stewart Culin. Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N. Y. (pp. 221-237)
Games and Amusements of Ute Children (pp. 238-240)
Lee J. Vance. Three Lessons in Rhabdomancy (pp. 241-246)
Charles L. Edwards. Some Tales from Bahama Folk-Lore. Fairy Stories (pp. 247-252)
John McNab Currier. Contributions to New England Folk-Lore (pp. 253-256)
J. Owen Dorsey. The Social Organization of the Siouan Tribes (pp. 257-266)
Tuscan Witch Songs (p. 267)
Joseph A. Haskell. Sacrificial Offerings among North Carolina Negroes (pp. 267-269)
Nursery Rhymes from Maine (pp. 269-270)
W. W. N. Jack the Giant-Killer (p. 270)
H. Carrington Bolton. The Pronunciation of Folk-Names in South Carolina (pp. 270-272)
W. M. Beauchamp. Stone Implements (p. 272)
A Note on an Early Superstition of the Champlain Valley. "The Whip-Poor-Will." (pp. 272-274)

Book Reviews
The Science of Fairy Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland (pp. 276-277)
The Scatalogic Rites of All Nations by John G. Bourke (pp. 277-278)
Great Russian Animal Tales by Adolf Gerber (pp. 278-279)
Quèstionnaire de Folk-Lore by E. Monseur (pp. 279-280)
Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition by J. MacDougall, John Gregorson Campbell (pp. 280-281)
Curiosità Popolari Tradizionali by Giuseppe Pitrè (p. 282)
Chansons Populaires de la France by Thomas Frederick Crane (p. 282)
The Gambling Games of the Chinese in America by Stewart Culin (p. 283)
Les Calendriers a Emblèmes Hieroglyphiques by A. Certeux (p. 283)

Journal of American Folklore. 4:13 (1891)

Today's free book is Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 4, No. 13 (1891). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image; I have provided individual story titles where applicable.

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Otis T. Mason. The Natural History of Folk-Lore (pp. 97-105)
W. W. N. The Indian Messiah (p. 106)
Louis Vossion. Nat-Worship among the Burmese (pp. 107-114)
J. G. Owens. Folk-Lore from Buffalo Valley, Central Pennsylvania (pp. 115-128)
J. Walter Fewkes. A Suggestion as to the Meaning of the Moki Snake Dance (pp. 129-138)
Albert S. Gatschet. Oregonian Folk-Lore (pp. 139-143)
Thomas Wilson. The Amulet Collection of Professor Belucci (pp. 144-146)
Silvanus Hayward. Popular Names of American Plants (pp. 147-150)
Fanny D. Bergen and W. W. Newell. Topics for Collection of Folk-Lore (pp. 151-158)
Ghost Dance at Pine Ridge (pp. 160-162)
Dance among the Iowas (p. 162)
The "Messiah Craze." (pp. 162-163)
Messianic Excitements among White Americans (pp. 163-165)
Mary H. Skeel. Stick Doctoring (pp. 165-166)
L. J. Vance. Weather Lore (p. 166)
W. M. Beauchamp. Folk-Lore of Stone Implements (pp. 166-167)
H. E. Warner. Folk Remedies (p. 168)
H. Carrington Bolton. All-Fools' Day in Italy (pp. 168-170)
Charles G. Leland. Possible Origin of a Nursery Rhyme (pp. 170-171)
Frank P. Stockbridge. "Anglo-Cymric Score" (p. 171)
William H. Babcock. Folk-Lore Jottings from Rockhaven, D. C. (pp. 171-173)
S. V. Proudfit. The Hobyahs: A Scotch Nursery Tale (pp. 173-174)
Charles G. Leland. Pin Lore (pp. 174-175)
The Dialect of Railway Employees (pp. 175-176)
A. S. Gatschet. The Costumes of Africa (pp. 176-177)
A. S. Gatschet. Greek Folk-Lore concerning the Moon (pp. 177-178)

Book Reviews
The Handbook of Folk-Lore by George Laurence Gomme (pp. 184-186)
Beside the Fire. A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories by Douglas Hyde (pp. 186-187)
Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland (pp. 187-188)
Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin (p. 189)