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American Negro folklore / by J. Mason Brewer.
LIBRA Rare GR103 .B66 1968b Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brewer, John Mason, 1896-1975, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 386 pages : music ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Quadrangle Books / The New York Times Book Company, [1968]
- Summary:
- Anthology of tales, songs, memoirs, superstitions, proverbs, rhymes, riddles, and names.
- Contents:
- TALES
- The wonderful tar-baby
- How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
- De wolf, de rabbit, and de tar baby
- Eyeball candy
- Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
- Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the game
- Granny's version of the owl
- Sheer crops
- Buh owl an buh rooster
- Buh lion an buh goat
- Story of a cow
- Buh hawss en' buh bule
- Why the Negro is black
- Why the Negro is black (Uncle Remus' version)
- Why the Holy Amen Church has two doors
- Why the rabbit has a short tail
- Why the buzzard has a red head
- Granny's version of the eagle who became a girl
- How the church came to be split up
- Why there are so many mosquitoes on the East Coast
- John and his boss-man's watermelon patch
- John and the two white men in court
- Ole Pete
- The green runner
- The sweetheart of Harriet Tubman's brother
- King Charley of Albany
- Peg Leg and the Tulsa race riot
- Nancy Vaughn
- Jim Beckwourth, frontiersman
- Memories of lead belly
- Little Black Sambo from Guinea
- Treasure hunting story
- The sprinkle man
- A ghost voodoo story
- A fish story from Farmville, Virginia
- Uncle Henry and the dog ghost
- The Saturday night fiddler
- The half-clad ghost
- The deserted village
- Two ghost stories from the same section of Virginia
- A Negro ghost story
- Little Nero and the magic tea cakes
- The red toro of Hidalgo County
- Ropes cost money
- The "George West" steer
- The Palacios rancher and the preacher
- Aunt Dicy and the mailman
- Aunt Dicy and the snuff salesman
- According to where the drop falls
- Aunt Dicy and Booker T. Washington's speech
- Twelve days after Christmas
- The talking mule
- Why the Jews don't eat hog
- The white quail
- The Detroit race riot
- Pony Moore's story
- The coon in the box
- The big watermelon
- Brand-name stories
- Jack and Dinah
- Uncle Si, his boss-man, and Hell
- Uncle Aaron loses his home
- Uncle Aaron goes fishing
- Uncle Aaron orders a baking pan
- The woman hurricane
- Who's ready for who?
- A laugh that meant freedom
- The cotton-pickin' monkeys
- The Oklahoma freedman
- They went riding snow-white horses
- A queer conception of beauty
- Paid for in privilege
- Too many "ups"
- Little Julia and her grandmother's cat
- The Negro taxi driver's trial
- A yellow bastard
- Tim and Bill from Summerville
- How Uncle Steve interpreted Spanish
- Elvannah's leave-taking
- Gib Morgan's fight
- John Green Peas
- THE NEGRO'S RELIGION
- Brother Brown's announcement
- The boy who played Jesus
- Witness of the Johnstown flood in Heaven
- Sister Rosie and the African missionary
- God throws a tree limb
- Brother Gregg identifies himself
- Why so many Negroes are in Heaven
- Sister Sadie Washington's littlest boy
- The preacher and his farmer brother
- A job for God
- Little David's question
- Why we come to church
- The danger of neglect
- De progicul son
- De tetter wine Christun
- A Negro's version of Heaven and Hell
- "Dem sebun wimmin"
- Prayers (The white man's prayer ; The Negro's prayer ; Prayer)
- SONGS
- PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
- "I can't forgive her, the way she used to beat us"
- If all slaves had belonged to white folks like ours
- Out of the mouths of ex-slaves
- Kicked around like a mule
- "Master got good when war come up"
- Mulatto whom owners treated like a family member
- The Negro slave's pride
- Harriet Parker on slavery
- Dorie Boyd on freedom and Reconstruction
- Reconstruction was a mighty hard pull
- Ku Klux
- Little but "way out in front"
- The Reverend Matthew N. McRae on "the closest I evuh come to bein' robbed"
- Hooked in the heart
- Everything just fits
- Jesus handed me a ticket
- Negroes in the Civil War
- He wanted to ask a question
- Experiences of a chimney sweeper
- New Orleans' first "baby doll"
- A wife longs for the town
- A farm wife tells of her children
- A Negro cowboy: J. H. Brewer
- Trabbler man
- No money, but provisions
- Jim Finn on calling up the Devil
- Luster an' de Devil
- A Harlem jive spiel
- SUPERSTITIONS
- Bad luck signs
- Birds of ill omen
- Gambling superstitions, among others
- Popular beliefs and superstitions
- Don'ts
- Signs
- Weather lore (Cold weather signs ; Warm weather signs ; Fair weather signs ; Stormy weather signs)
- Superstitions about animals
- Folk beliefs from Florida
- Beliefs from Georgia (The lady in black ; A witch story ; Flying people)
- PROVERBS
- RHYMES
- RIDDLES
- NAMES
- CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND PASTIMES.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1968 by J. Mason Brewer"--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brewer, John Mason, 1896-1975. American Negro folklore.
- ISBN:
- 0812904524
- 9780812904529
- OCLC:
- 974719334
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