Dictionary of American Folklore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tallman, Marjorie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--United States--Dictionaries.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newburyport : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 1960.

Summary:

Discover the delightful tales, characters, and themes of classic American storytelling in this comprehensive Dictionary of American Folklore. Ever wonder the origins of the fairy tales, myths, and legends passed down from generation to generation throughout America's long history? From Paul Bunyan to Johnny Appleseed, Marjorie Tallman covers it all in an engaging voice sure to please readers of all ages.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

A

absentmindedness

absquatulate

Acadian customs

Adam's Tavern (later known as Wadsworth's)

Adirondack customs

Adirondack guides

Ah Quong's Inn

albino animals

algerines

All quiet on the Potomac

"All the Law West of the Pecos"

alphabet recitation

Al Smith

alum

ambulance chaser

Amish customs

animals in folklore

anti-macassar

Arkansas Traveler

Army folklore terms

asafetida

Ascension Day

aspen leaf

as straight as Pearl Street

Astor of Waldorf

"avoiding"

B

Babbitt

Babe, the Blue Ox

Baby's first lock of hair

baby removed from dead mother

bachelor buttons

backstone (attually back hearthstone)

backward action

bacon and . greens

bad dress rehearsal-good opening

badger

badgers

bad man

Balaam's basket

balance and swing

ballast for fish

Ball the Jack

"balloon lines"

Bals du Roi (Kings' Balls)

Baltimore, gastronomic center of the world

bandanna

band wagon, to get on

Bang-All

banjo

bank barns

barber's cat

barber shop mugs

barnstormer

barrel house

barrel treatment for drunkenness

barrenness

Barricke Mariche

Bartholomew baby

basers

Basin Street

bathing beauties

Battalion Day

Battle-ax beliefs (Pennsylvania)

bayberry candles

Bayou State

bear-hunting, Ozark style

"bear traps"

bearwalkers

beats my time

beaver

bed-rock, to be down to

bed superstitions

bee

Beecher's Bibles

beeswax candles

belaying-pin soup

"Bell don't make bump"

bells of Conestoga wagons

Belsnickel

Ben Delimus

"best wore out"

Bet-A-Million Gates

betsy lamp

bezoars

bibliomancy

Big Owl

"Big Runaway"

Big Sea Day

Billy the Kid

Binghamton's Origin

bird in the house

bird lore.

Birthday folklore

birthday superstitions

Biscaino, Don Pedro

black birding

"black cat"

"black grains"

Black Hawk

"Black legs"

"Black Robes"

blood beliefs

bloviating

"Blow Gabriel Blow"

blow the grampus

blue-eyed boy

Blue Hen's Chickens

Blue Hill Hermit

bluejay

"Blue line" activities

Blue-noses

blues

Blue-Tail Fly

blutz-wagon

Bodie, California

"body masters"

bonanza

boneshaker

bonnyclabber

boogie-woogie

bookmaking customs

boomers

boom rats

"boom town" game

boot, boot camp

Boot Hill

borderer

Boston titles

"boughten bread"

bowling at pins

box-cars

Boxer Day

brakeman on the railroads

"brave man"

bread dance

bread superstitions

break a mirror

break broth

"breast stones"

Brer Rabbit

brick making, colonial style

bridal knots

Bridal Veil Falls

"broad horn" boat

broken striper

Bronx cheer

Brother Jonathan

bruder pleger (caretaker)

Bruneau John of Idaho

brunswick stew

brush fires

buckaroo

bucking board

"Buck Private"

buckwheat cakes

bull

bulls and bears

bull boat (Missouri style)

Buller legends of Lake Superior

"Bullet Barons"

"bull jine"

bull whacker

bunk fatigue

bunny meat (rabbit food)

Bunyan's animals

burgo

bursting horns

bury the hatchet

Buster Brown

butter-and-egg man

butter-making

butterfly beliefs among the Indians

butterfly beliefs in other parts of the United States

C

cabin fever

caboodle

caboteurs

cactus

Cafe Society

cahoots, to be in

cakewalk

calash

calico queen

California melon picking

California sock

calling the wind

callout dances

calumet

Cambridge Common Exhibition

camel express

camphor superstitions

can

can openers

canary superstitions.

Canal Street (Buffalo)

cancellation of letters

"Candle-maker"

candlewood

Cape Cod houses

Cape Cod lore

Cap Cod named

capping a tale

card playing superstitions

Carnegie Legends

Carver's Cave

casket girls (filles a la casette)

casket shortage

cast down and cast off

Castella Legend

caterpillars

cat superstitions

catfish troubles

Cattle Kate

cat with wooden leg

"caulk off"

Cave-In-the-Rock, Kentucky

cayuse

chair rail

chameleon

chanson des voyageurs (chants of the woodsmen)

chaparejos (chaparereras)

chaparral fox

charivari

Charlestown (South Carolina)

cherry-tree deer

chew the fat

Chinese funeral customs in Idaho

Chinese in the early mining days

chin music

chin superstitions

Chippewa's gain fire

Chitlins or chitterlings

cigar store Indians

"Cindy"

circular story

cisterns

Civil War greetings

clean shirts for sea captains

cloak and dagger merchant

coal as fuel

coarse materials known to the colonial South

cob iron

cockroach bosses

codfish superstitions

coffee pot sailor

"coffin-notices"

coin flipping

cold brand or hair brand

cold sores

cold thunder

"Colonel Colt's equalizer"

colonial drinks

"coloring in early America"

color symbolism

"Colt on Revolvers"

Columbia, Pennsylvania

Columbus circle or balloon tire

comancheros

comb superstitions

come-all-ye

"Come up and see me some time"

compressed hay

conches

conestogas-"stogies"

conjuring lodge

conner

contagious magic

"cookem fry"

cookie-pusher

Coolidge humor as Vice-President

coon skin of Davy Crockett

coon, to go the whole coon

Cooney-caboose

coontie

cooper

coopers

Cooperstown, New York

Coos Bay

copper captain

corduroy roads

corn

corn freight.

Cornish customs

"cotton boxes"

counting-out games

courtship limited in New England

Cousin Jack, Cousin Jenny

cowboy modern style

cowboy of the Pecos

cowboy terms applied to Indians

cowboy terms borrowed from the Spanish

Cowboy's Lament

cowboy usages

cow casualty

cow chips

cowpuncher

cow superstitions

Coyote

cracker

cranberries

crazy as a sheepherder

crazy quilts

Creole funeral customs-coffin material

crickets

crookneck squash

Cross my heart

crosshaul

crossing

crossing little fingers

croup

crow

crow-bar hole

culture hero

cup plates

cures

curfew

cuspidor

cut a swath

cutting out

D

daddy-long-legs or straddle bug

daisy folklore

Dalton Gang

damnyankee

dandelion divination

dander

dangers on the Missouri River

Daniel McGirth

dark and bloody land

deaconed off

deacon's seat

dead beat

deadheads

Dead Horse Chantey

Deadman's Hand

deadwood, to get the deadwood on you

death terms of cowboys

death warnings

déchargé

deer meat swamp style

Deer Woman

demon dancers

Derby Hat (American style)

devil in New England

Devil's Island influence

Diamond Horseshoe

"Dick Smith"

"dig for wood and climb for water"

diggings

dimples

dingle

dipping

"dish turner"

dive for the oyster

divination practices

"Divine Right Baer"

Dixieland

Dizzy Dean's English

dobe walled

do brown

docey-do

dock weed

dogie

dog's howls

dogwood

doo hicky

door signs

dory

dowser

"drive the river"

droop-eyed calves

drowning superstitions

drums for church service

dry gulch, to

duck

duck dance

Dunker love feast observance

Dutch courage

Dutchman's breeches

Dutch Tea Parties

E

"eager beaver"

eagle.

eagle myths of the Cherokee

"early candle light"

ear-puller or ear-swinger

ears burn

earthquakes

Easter before Lent (Paques avant Careme)

"easy boss"

eat crow

eat dog

ecclesiastical bricks

eclipse

"economic royalists"

egg superstitions

Eileschpijjel tales or Eulenspiegel tales

elbedritsche

electric "fluid"

elephant as a symbol

Emancipation Proclamation Day, August 4

epilepsy

escape tales

Ethan Allen

ethnocentric viewpoint

eucalyptus trees of San Francisco

evil eye

eyebrow superstitions

eyelash as means of predicting the future

F

Fair Play Boys

falling stars

false faces

"false front" architecture

family record

Fasnacht or Shrove Tuesday

"Fat boy"

feather merchant

Febold Feboldson

fees for preachers

fence cutter's wars

feu follet (will of the wisps)

field day

fillee

"finding the bean"

fingernails

fingers crossed

Finglish

"fining judges"

Finnigan to Flanagan

Finnish custom

"fire-eater"

fire engine panels

fire-fighting companies' rivalries

fireflies

firemark

fires in rooms

"fire sticks"

fire trumpets

firing of three shots

First Families of Virginia

"First Gringo"

first star seen

First Ward Parties (Chicago)

Fish House Punch

five beans in the wheel

flint and tinder box

flint rocks dispose of a bear

flip

floating gin palace

flock paper

Florida lore

Florida sunshine

flower lore

flying box car

fofurraw

footprints

footstoves

forgetfulness

forty-miler

forty-niner miner's laundry troubles

Four hundred

"Foxy-grandpop"

"Freedom Road"

"French Creeks"

Frick Legends

Friday superstitions

frog superstitions

frontier appetites

full dress

fuller

funeral customs

funeral procession.

furrow, the longest in the world.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781504055062

1504055063