Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Resource: Negro Folktales in Michigan

Negro Folktales in Michigan

Author: Richard M. Dorson
Year: 1956
Location: personal library


Table of Contents:

The Communities and the Storytellers

The Art of Negro Storytelling

Animal and Bird Stories
Who ate up the butter?
The Bear meets trouble
The Bear in the mudhole
Rabbit and Hogshead have a race
Why the Rabbit has a short tail
The Deer escapes from the Fox
The Lion and the cowboy
The Rat in the whiskey
The reason the Buzzard is got a bald head
Why the Buzzard went south
The Buzzard goes to Europe
Crow, Buzzard, and Mule
Lazy Buzzard
Straighten up and fly right
Belling the Buzzard
Bee and Dirtdauber
The preacher and the Guinea
Poll Parrot and biscuits
The Poll Parrot, the Hawk, and Jim

Old Marster and John

Colored Man

Horrors

Hoodoos and Two-Heads

Spirits and Hants

Witches and Wonders

The Lord and the Devil
Mangelizing
How hoodoo lost his hand
St. Peter and the stone
How the turtle got his form
How the peckerwood came to be
Why the Jews don't eat hog
Zacharias and the sycamore tree
God names the dog
Samson and the anvil
How the Devil kept the soul
Seeing the Devil in three shapes
Ben Weatherby curses God
Hunting possum on Sunday
The white quail
Simon fishing on Sunday

Preachers

Liars and Irishmen

Fairy Tales

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