A treasury of Southern folklore : stories, ballads, traditions, and folkways of the people of the South / edited with an introd. by B. A. Botkin ; with a foreword by Douglas Southall Freeman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Folklore--Southern States.
• Folklore.
• Southern States.
• Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 776 pages : music ; 24 cm

Edition:

Bonanza 1980 edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bonanza Books, [1980]

Contents:

• PART ONE: WITH A SOUTHERN ACCENT. [Southern Loyalties] Introduction
• The South to the North
• Comparative Salutations
• John Sharp Williams and the Yankee Clock
• The Same Old Gun
• A Student of Economics
• The Agricultural South
• In Bourbon County
• The Best Carver
• Family Pride
• The Ancestral Criterion
• Kinfolk
• Why I am a Democrat
• Kissing and Politics
• Why the Natchrez Lost the Race with the Robt. E. Lee
• Stonewall Jackson and the Farmer
• The Orgin of Dixie
• The Origin of the Confederate Flag and Uniform
• The Rebel Yell
• Cotton is King
• A Long Time Between Drinks
• Its Origin
• Its Currency
• Some Southern Politicalisms
• The Southern Mammy
• Bacon and Greens and the Native Viginian
• [Local Pride and Prejudice] Introduction
• Local Cracks and Slams
• Maryland Free State
• A Virginian
• Ginia
• Virginia Mountaineer Taits
• A Kentucky Breakfast
• Kentucky vs. Tennessee
• Tennessee-"The Heart of the Western Hemisphere"
• In The Mountains
• The Origin of "Tar Heels"
• Confederate Nicknames
• Names in the Red Hills
• Local Festivals and Totems
• Henry W. Grady's Parable
• Georgia Marriage Ceremony
• Florida Hurricane Lore
• Florida Climate
• Alabama Leads Again
• Mississippi Soil
• Wood-Yard Laconics
• The Mississippi
• A New Orleans Duel
• Arkansas and Heaven
• Arkansassy and Illinoisy
• Oklahoma Oil Jokes
• The Road to Texas
• Dallas vs. Fort Worth
• Bigness of Texas
• [Caste and Class] Introduction
• A Debt of Honor
• Culpepper's Pride
• Monsieur Durand's Grand Gesture
• Many Servants
• Captain Ridgely of Hampton
• Marster's Body and Soul
• The White Sign
• The Difficulties of Colaboration
• The Humor of the Negro
• Swapping Dreams
• Cussing Master
• Roast Pig
• Massa's Gone to Philly-Me-York
• Setting John Free
• Mister White
• Booker T. Washington and Teddy Roosevelt
• Racial Etiquette
• Getting into Heaven
• Working on Shares
• Landlord and Tenant
• Deducts
• Plow It good and Deep, Boys
• Staying All Night at Buck Bradley's
• Moving House
• Brer Rabbit's Boy and the Devil
• The Hillbilly Caricatured
• A Mule and a Fool
• The Miller and the Devil
• The Hounds and the Law
• A Deal in Dreams
• Why the Seminoles Would Not Learn to Read and Write
• Indians and Oil
• [Brethren and Sistern] Introduction
• The Episcopal Gentleman
• A Presbyterian Missionary in Texas
• The Secret of Success in Preaching
• A paying Business
• Prayer for Rain
• The Different Persuasions
• Joining the Church
• The Winning Hand
• Adjourning the Service
• Salvage and Salvation
• Cured of Hatred
• A Call to Preach
• The Value of Religious Instruction
• Washpot Services
• No Time for Children
• The Logic of Faith
• Measuring Eternity
• The Visions of Daddy Jupiter
• Ain't no Corn-Bread There
• Flying Fool
• Catch Hell Just the Same
• Oil and Hell
• Where the Lion Roareth and the Wang-Dooddle Mourneth
• [Irrepressible Cussedness] Introduction
• The Unreconstructed South
• Confederate Battle Ruses
• Boone's Knife-Swallowing Trick
• The last Word
• Moving the Dinner Out of a Burning House
• The Old Lady and the Bacon
• Southern Travel
• The Toughest of the Tough
• Fine These Men
• Getting the Corn Cut
• One Way Passage
• The Sheriff and the Moonshiners
• The Steamboat Captain and the Robbers
• Canada Bill's Gambling Story
• A Good Reputation
• The Test
• A Flatboat Passenger Finds Excitement
• Old Bolivar
• Fox Story
• Robin and the Bitch
• The Razorback and the Dynamite
• The Durnedest Fellow for Hard Luck
• The Man Yoked with and Ox
• The Ungrateful Constituent
• Captain Quill and Si
• A Monument to the Boll Weevil
• Scientific Agriculture
• The Potato Story
• Get Up, Mule
• Previous Experience
• Josh and the Corn
• Answer to Prayer
• Things Equal to the Same Thing
• Hill Farm Hazards
• The Last of the Arkansas
• Crockett and the Inquisitive Landlord
• The Man Who Would Not Stay Dead.
• PART TWO: SOUTHERN SAGA. [On The Side Of The Angels] Introduction
• Virginia Dare: The Lost Colony ; The Legend of the White Doe
• Pocahontas
• Captain John Smith, Disciplinarian: A Cure for Swearing ; Work or Starve
• Washingtoniana: Throwing a Dollar Across the Rappahannock ; Returning a Negro's Courtesy ; At the Siege of Yorktown
• Jeffersoniana: Jefferson and the Connecticut Farmer ; Thomas Jefferson's Own Epitaph
• Marion, the "Swamp Fox": A Broken Ankle ; Marion's Brigade ; Leaping a Fence ; Marion and the British Officer
• How Sumter, the "Game Cock," Won His Sobriquest
• Daniel Boone: How He Won Rebecca ; His Powers of Memory
• John Sevier and the Lost State of Franklin
• Andrew Jackson: Jackson and Russell Bean ; The General Wins His Nickname
• Davy Crockett:"Gamecock of the Wilderness": Obtaining a Cask of Powder ; How to Keep from Freezing to Death ; Target Shooting
• Robert E. Lee: "Marse Robert" and His Men ; Lee's Humor ; How He Spared Chatham ; A Portrait of Traveller
• Stonewall Jackson: How He Won His Sobriquest ; "Old Jack"
• Jeb Stuart: The Chevalier of the Lost Cause: A Lesson in Tactics ; Riding Past a Federal Picker ; The Wish That Was Granted ; His Audacity ; "Fustest with the Mostest" Forrest
• Morgan and His Raiders: A Deal in Meal ; He Wanted to See Morgan ; Selling a Federal General.
• [Buccaneers, Bandits,and Bullies] Introduction
• Captain Teach, alias Blackbeard
• Blackbeard's Treasure
• The Death of Blackbeard
• A Fury from Hell: The Legend of Blackbeard and Miss Eden ; Blackbeard's Skull
• Jean Lafitte, the Pirate of the Gulf: Lafitte's Treasure ; The Mystery of Lafitte
• Mike Fink: The Hero of the Boatmen ; Mike Fink and the Sheep ; How Mike Fink Came to Court at Louisville
• Colonel Plug, The Wrecker
• Jim Girty: Jim Girty's Beef Story ; Jim Girty's Ribs
• Harpe's Head
• Samuel Mason
• John A. Murrell's Own Story
• Annie Christmnas
• George Devol: Missisippi River Gambler: A Woman with a gun ; The Persuader ; George the Butter
• Quantrell, the Guerrilla: The Black Flag ; Quantrell's Beginnings ; Skirmishes in Missouri ; The Survival Legend
• Railroad Bill
• The End of Rube Burrow
• Kinnie Waggoner "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
• [The People's Choice] Introduction
• Patrick Henry, Lawyer: Thieving Knaves ; Henry and Hook ; A Bob-Tail Politician ; Patrick Henry and the Lovers
• Anecodotes of Henry Clay: A Change Shot ; A Rifleman's Analogy ; The Randolph-Clay Duel
• Calhoun's Fascination: Calhoun and "Uncle Jacob" ; Eulogy of John C. Calhoun
• Davy Crockett: Coonskin Congresman: How Crockett Defeated Huntsman ; Crockett's Rules for the Guidance of Politicians
• Sam Houston Gives Satisfaction
• Antics of Sergeant S. Prentiss Campaigning with a Menagerie: Prentiss'sBedbug Trial
• Mark Hardin's Argument
• Quitman Heckled
• The Left-Handed Candidate
• The Helpful Candidate
• The Cautious Candidate
• Alexander Stephens' Gastronomical Humor
• "Private" John Allen
• Pitchfork Ben Tillman
• Stories and Sayings of Governor Bob Taylor of Tennesse
• Sayaings and speeches of Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansas
• Stories and Sayings of Henry W. Grady
• The Kentucky Candidate and the Voter: Campaigning in the Mountains of Kentucky ; "Pap's" Indefference
• More Money for Hooper
• A Waste of Ligghtning
• Tom Heflin's Stories
• Tom Watson Defends Jack Peavy
• Huey Long: The Language of the People ; The Tears of the People ; The Tears of Evangeline ; Every Man a King ; The Kingfish ; Potlikker and Corn Pone ; "The Martyed Governor" ; Legends of Huey Long
• The Rival Candidates
• In Defense of Hanging
• Sayings of Governor ["Alfalfa Bill"] Murry: "Them Hillbillies Are Politicians Now"
• The Man Bilbo
• Senator Claghorn
• Sayings of Will Rogers.
• [Memorabilia] Introduction
• The Real Evangeline
• John Randolph and John
• Betsy Dowdy's Ride
• Mrs. Motte's Sacrifice
• Mrs. Miller, Eli Whitney, and the Cotton Gin
• The Nags Head Picture of Theodosia Burr
• Naomi Wise
• Frankie Silvers
• The Duels of Bernard Marigny
• Bras Cou'e
• The Mystery of Peter Ney
• The Bowie Knife
• Britt Bailey
• Harriet Tubman Hal's Lake
• Eliza Crossing the Ice
• Slave Legends of Lincoln
• "The Not Uncivil War"
• The Legend of Barbara Frietchie
• The Free State of Jones
• Captain Horatio Williams and the Schooner Patagon
• The Story of J.M. White
• The Race between The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee
• How "Mark Twain" Was Born
• Steve Renfroe, the Outlaw Sheriff of Sumter County
• How Big Tom Wilson Tracked the Body of Elisha Mitchell
• Colonel Falkner and the Rebel Route
• Jay Gould's Curse
• Casey Jones: How He Got His Name ; Building the Legend ; Sim Webb's Account of the Wreck ; The Song ; In Memoriam
• Temple Houston
• The Physic and the Corpus
• The Allens of Virginia: The Allens Shoot Up the Court ; Claude Allen
• Floyd Collins
• Black Gold
• Aunt Molly Jackson's First Song
• O. Henry: Drugstore Cartoonist
• Tom Wolfe Comes Home.
• PART THREE: SOUTHERN STORY-TELLERS. [Yarns and Tall Tales] Introduction
• A Deal in Pork
• Shooting Frogs Without Powder
• Fidding for His Life
• Sloped for Texas
• A Gambler's Tricks: The Big Catfish ; The Jack-Fish ; Signal Service
• A Kentucky Shooting Match
• Piloting a Flatboat
• A Steamboat Race
• The Bull Trial
• The Mul-Killer
• Fox Hunters and Their Dogs: Dick Wilson ; Lee Hogan ; Don Saunders
• The Two Ducks
• Huey Long's Lejeune Story
• Racing With a Black Cat
• Wait till Martin Comes
• Daddy Mention: Daddy Mention and the Cops ; Dady Mention's Escape
• My Grandfather.
• [Swapping Lies] The Double Rat
• Leander,the Telegraphing Rattlesnake
• The Rattlesnake-Bitten Cypress Club
• Texas Mosquitoes
• The Lean and the Fat Buck
• The Rooter-Dog
• Dr. Ballowe's Possum
• The Bay Filly's Hide
• A Heap of Strange Things
• Mountain Hogs
• Calling the Dog: Mississippi Tall Tales:Hard Times ; Hot Weather ; High Winds ; Bedbugs ; Big Skeeters
• Question and Answer Tales
• The Quickest Man Wins
• How Sharp Snaffles Got His Wife and Capital
• The Rolling Log
• The Toin Whistle on the Bass
• Pilot Tall Tales
• Big Black and the Her-Girls.
• [Folk Tales] Introduction.
• [Fables and Myths] Thompson's Colt
• Jesse Holmes, the "Fool Killer"
• The Belled Buzzard
• The King Buzzard
• Follow the Drinking Ground
• Mythical Places of the Florida Negro:Diddy-Wash -Diddy ; West Hell
• Flying Africans
• Why Negroes are Black
• The Walk-Off People
• The Lord and Noah
• The Coach Whip Story
• Two-Toe Tom.
• [Place Legends] The Enchanted Island
• Bald Mountain
• The Mysterious Music at Pascagoula
• The Date-Tree of Orleans Street
• Two Legends of the Brazos:The Miraculous Escape ; The Great Drouth and the Waters at Waco.
• [Animal and nursery Tales] How The Deer Obtained His Horns
• The Terrapin and the Deer
• How Brer Rabbit Lost His Tail
• Brer Rabbit and the Little Girl
• Why the Fox's Mouth Is Sharp, Why the Possum Has no Hair on His Tail, and Why the Rabbit Has a Short Tail and a White Spot on His Forehead
• You Talk Too Much
• Barnyard Talk
• Foolish John: Jean Sotte ; The Cowhide ; Foolish John and the Rain ; The Dollars and the Frogs
• The Hairy Toe
• Chicky-Licky-Chow-Chow-Chow
• The Poopampareno
• Jack and the Calf Hide
• The Skoonkin Hunting.
• [Ghost,Witch,and Devil Tales] The Bell "Witch": Two Mississippi Accounts ; Andrew Jackson and the Bell "Witch"
• Hold Him, Tabb
• The Headless Hant
• Ghost Dinner
• Ghosts of the Cedar Creek{Virginia} Battlefield
• The Black Cat's Message
• The Red Rag under the Churn
• The Witch Bridle
• The Devil's Mansion.
• PART FOUR:SOUTHERN FOLKWAYS. [Pleasures of the Palate] Introduction
• Corn Liquor
• Moonshining in the Ozarks
• Mint Juleps
• The Sazerac
• Scuppernong Wine
• Thankful for These
• Sowins and Gopher
• When the Collard Greens Talked
• Grease
• Chitlins
• Cush
• Hoe Cake and Corn Pone
• Grits
• Hush-Puppies
• Turtle and Cooter
• Hoppin John
• Pot Liquor
• Kentucky Ham
• Creole Cookery
• Gurgoo
• Barbewue and Fish Muddle.
• [Southern Lights and Shadows] Introduction.
• [Peculiar Ways] How the Old-Time Planter Captured a Guest
• Platation Ways:Bells and Horns ; Fanning the Flies
• Kinsmaen
• Cajun Connections
• A Spitting World
• The Grapevine Telegraph.
• [Private Justice] Guinea Jim
• The Feud Ambush
• A Mircle of Mountain Justice
• "Mountain Romeo and Juliet"
• Connie Franklin and the Greenway Boys
• There Ain's Nothing to Killin'.
• [Sports,Pastimes, and Festivals] The Log Rolling
• Imitating Bird and Animal Cries
• Feats with the Rifle
• Shooting for Beef
• Fox-Hunting Fever
• Fox Heroes
• Coon Dogs and Coon Hunting
• Razorbacks and Piney-Woods Rooters
• The Chesapeake Bay Dog
• Tournament Day
• The New Year's Shoot
• Mardi Gras
• Fais Dodo.
• [Ways That Are Dark] Southern Folk Beliefs:The Language of Signs ; Birth Lore ; Taboos and Social Control ; The Moon and the Signs of the Zodiac ; Weather Lore ; Cures ; Negro Conjure ; Love Charms ; Evil Spirits
• Dr. Ballowe and the Remede-Man
• Voodoo
• Doodlebug
• Plat-Eyes
• Delta Terrors.
• [Rhythmns,Rituals, and Folk-Say] Introduction
• Plantation Courtship Formulae and Riddles
• Jumping the Broomstick
• Tobacco Auctioneer
• Soundings
• The Shout
• Service of the Sanctified Saints of God
• Street Cries of Charleston
• Street Cries of New Orleans
• Mississippi folksay
• Gullah Proverbs
• The Mountain Dialect
• The Speech of the Negro.
• PART FIVE: THE SINGING SOUTH Introduction
• [Lullabies and Game Songs] You Shall Have a Horse to Ride
• Aunt Maria
• Old Lady Sittin' in the Sining Room
• All around the Maypole
• Gwan Round, Rabbit.
• [Dance,Instrumental, and Ministrel Songs] Juba
• Dow-Legged Rabbit
• The Blue-Tail Fly
• Bile dem Cabbage Down
• Where'd You Get Yo' Whisky?
• Soldier's Joy
• Acadian Waltz.
• [Songs of The Confederacy] Dixie
• Cumberland Gap
• Eating Goober Peas
• I'm a Good Old Rebel.
• [British Songs and Ballads] The Devil's Nine Questions
• Young Rogers the Miller
• Fair Fanny Mooe
• Devilish Mary
• Frog Went A-Courting.
• [Topical Songs and Ballads] The Ship Titanic
• The Wreck on the C.& O.
• Wasn't That a Mighty Storm!
• Dark as a Dungeon
• Cotton-Mill Colic
• T.V.A. Song.
• [Mountain Songs and Ballads] Darling Cory
• Zeb Turney's {Turner's} Girl
• Good Old Mountain Dew
• The Knoxville Girl
• Old Blue
• Dogget's Gap
• On Top of Old Smoky
• Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase.
• [Negro Work Songs and Ballads] Poor Little Johnny
• Come on, Boys, and Let's Go to Hunting
• Quitting Time Song
• Go Down, Old Hannah
• Can't You Line It?
• Rock About, My Saro Jane
• The Death of John Henry
• Swannanoa Tunnel
• Boll Weevil
• Dupre.
• [Religious Songs] Holy Babe
• The Babe of Bethlehem
• The Cherry Tree Carol
• He Never Said a Mumbalin' Word
• The Bood Done Signed My Name
• Motherless Children
• Lonesome Valley.

Notes:

• Reprint of the ed. published by Crown Publishers, New York.
• Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

• 0517336472
• 9780517336472

OCLC:

6982438