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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society
Author: Folk-Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas
Author: Elsie Worthington Clews ParsonsPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879404870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Lamba Folk-lore
Author: Clement Martyn DokePublisher: Corinthian Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Folk-lore from Maryland
Author: Annie Weston WhitneyPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Journal of American Folklore
Author: South from Hell-fer-Sartin
Author: Leonard W. RobertsPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318763X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties—probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America—Leonard W. Roberts recorded this rich collection more than three decades ago. To a people who, at that time, watched dancing hearth fires more often than television, the adventures of Jack in the land of witches and giants, monsters and beautiful princesses, provided first-class entertainment. Here are such old favorites as "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Golden Arm," retold in the idiom of the Kentucky mountains. Here are hauntingly beautiful cantes fables and earthy Irishman jokes. Here are encounters with Indians and marvelous hunting escapades. Roberts introduces his collection, first published in 1955, with a sympathetic description of the mountain way of life. He notes especially the bewildering and rapid changes that came to the Pine Mountain watershed in that decade as the highways and electric lines at last brought in a sophistication that preferred the soap opera to the folk tale. Although the stories Roberts recorded were still a firm part of folk tradition at the time, he believed that within a decade or two they would be forgotten—a prediction, sadly, by now no doubt fulfilled. Any lover of the vanishing art of tale telling will relish this rich treasury of folklore and humor. Full notes on sources, types, motifs, parallels, and possible origins of the tales make this collection valuable also for folklorists.
Folk-tales of Angola
Author: Héli ChatelainPublisher:
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Category : Angola
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Traditional Texts and Tunes
Author: Albert Harris TolmanPublisher:
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Category : American ballads and songs
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Two Traditions
Author: Gerald ThomasPublisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550810554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Newfoundland is well known for the strong traditions and folklore of its English-speaking inhabitants. Until recently, however, few outside this province realized that there is also a small but vigorous Francophone population, situated mainly on the west coast of the island in and around the Port au Port Peninsula. The culture and folklore, and particularly their storytelling traditions, are the focus of the work by noted folklorist and memorial university professor Gerald Thomas. Thomas has conducted extensive and exhaustive research on the Port au Port Peninsula for more than twenty years, focusing on, though not limited to, the music and story telling in Franco Newfoundland communities, through the study of the repertoire, context and lives on three people: Mrs. Blanche Ozone, Mrs. Angela Kerfont, and Emile Benoit.
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