This is Chase174.
Types
ATU0330B Devil in the Knapsack
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Notes
Parsons comments: "It has been collected in New England from Portuguese Negroes, but it has not been recorded before, so far as I know, in the South. Mr. Ridgeley Torrence tells me however that the tale is widely spread among American Negroes."
See notes to Chase032. (Baer wrote 23 but she means 32.)
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She does not comment on weaving Rabbit into the story here; that is something Harris does that I am really curious about. I suspect it is Harris and NOT his informant... but I sure would like to know!
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