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Folk beliefs of the southern Negro

Folk beliefs of the southern Negro

Fairy Tales & Folklore

Newbell Niles Puckett

Authors: Newbell Niles Puckett
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Originally produced as for a Doctorate of Philosophy at Yale, this remarkable history of twenty or so years of Black life in the South is fascinating. Centering around folklore and superstition, it details "Negro folk beliefs, to show their origin whenever possible, and to indicate some of the general principles governing the transmission and content of folk-lore in general." (From the preface...)