Sunday, June 30, 2019

Resource: Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans

Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans

Author: Daryl C. Dance
Year: 1985
Location: personal library


I have listed the titles of the stories only for Part I and Part II.

I. Etiological Tales
1 Jet Black
2 How We Get Black
3 Dat's Pe-e-r-fick
4 Why the Black Man is Black
5 The Creation of the Negro
6 Why the Black Man Has to Work Hard
7 Mango and Orange
8 Congo and Nago
9 Sorrel
10 Why Satan Did Not Learn to Blow Breath

II Anansesem
11 Cork di Pot, Man
12 Bird Cherry Island
13 Why Dawg Hate Puss
14 The Bone Sweet
15 Bredda Anandy and Bredda John Crow
16 Anancy and Monkey
17 The Tar Banana Tree
18 Mi Waan' Bulla
19 Anancy is Riding-Horse
20 Tacuma Wins the Girl
21 Gashany Bull
22 Escaping Soldiers
23 Dis Yah One Ya Bal'
24 Town Mouse and Country Mouse
25 Dem Caan' Call Me Rat
26 The Ugliest Man Mus' Wash Up

III Duppy Tales

IV Big Boy Tales

V Tales about Religion

VI Tales about Rastafarians

VII Miscellaneous Tales

VIII Riddles

IX Rhymes

X Songs

XI Children's Games





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