Negro folk tales from the south (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana) / by Arthur Huff Fauset.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales--Southern States.

Tales.

Penn Provenance:

Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983, Estate of (donor) (Kislak Center)

Physical Description:

pages 213-303 ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1927.

Contents:

1. Animal tales: T'APPIN'S MAGIC DIPPER AND WHIP

Rabbit fools buzzard

Where they throw away the oranges

Buzzard traps rabbit in a hollow stump

Mock beheading

No tracks coming back

Tappin fooled by Billy Goat''s eyes

Lion hunt

Rabbit gets hung

RABBIT TIES FOX'S TAIL TO THE DEAD HORSE

Promised feast

RABBIT RIDES ELEPHANT ACROSS THE STREAM

RABBIT COUNTS ALLIGATOR'S FAMILY

RABBIT KILLS BEAR'S CHILD FOR LAND

RABBIT TEACHES BEAR A SONG

RABBIT SHAMED BEFORE LADIES

Rabbit at the party

Fox boils rabbit in the pot

In the well

Tar baby

MAGIC FORMULA: THE COTTON HOE

B'RER RABBIT'S LAUGHING PLACE

Rabbit plays possum

The watcher blinded

Frog suitor

Fire catches rabbit

Playing godfather

Rooster and fox

BR'ER DEER MARRIES SUN'S DAUGHTER

PICKING PEACHES: DOWN THE CHIMNEY INTO THE BOILING POT

Why alligator can't talk

WHY DOGS JUMP ON EACH OTHER'S HEADS

Try him! Try him!

In the cow's belly

LA PAIN'S MOTHER SOLD AS CODFISH

LA PAIN AND THE TURTLE

Are you man?

2. Fairy tales: Catskin

THE SON WHO SOUGHT HIS FORTUNE

The magic water

The friendly demon

The wicked mother

The strong one

Three fools

Three more fools

Little claus

The seventh son

The three golden apples

The homeless animals

The haunted house

The three questions

3. Stories of exaggeration: THE MARVELOUS POTATO

CATCHING THE CALLINIPPER

The bird dog

Voices in the frying pan

The three suitors

4. Ole Marsters stories: RUNNING WITH HIS SHOES OFF

Too much tongue

Lazy John

Lies too far apart

MASTER GONE TO PHILANEWYORK

5. Pat and Mike, the Jew, the Negro: SHOOTING GRASSHOPPERS

Fooling God

Darkening the hole

ALL DRESSED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO

Mare's eggs

Knee deep

Lightening is hell

The guilty lover

The ghost walks

Live bear catch

SAGACIOUS JEW

Coming with the dogs

Dog dinner

The man who invented fire

Bible and swimming

Ten-mile boots

Horse stay outside

Nothing for the Negro

Catch hell just the same.

Notes:

Extract from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, volume 40 (July-Sept., 1927), number 157, pages 213-303.

OCLC:

63660094