From the Book - [1st ed.].
The folktale / Turtle surpasses man in ingenuity --
Adam and Eve and their children --
Les cartes du nomme Richard --
The preistwife gets a beating --
The king and the old George Buchanan --
An Alsatian witch story --
Why the Irish came to America --
Brer Rabbit's cool air swing --
Valpariso and Lily White --
Wait till Emmett comes --
The man who plucked the corberie --
The preacher and the hog --
How the town was named Elkader --
The soldier who used his head --
The three Chaplains play cards --
La Randonnee de la ville de Paris --
Trippa, Troppa, Tronjes --
Songs for Christmas and the New Year --
Ten thousand miles away --
I've a long time heard --
Ain't gwine grieve my god no more --
The death of the Beckwith child --
Asesinato de Francisco Villa --
McKinley and Huey Long --
To charm cattle and cure injuries --
A sponge fishers' charm --
Ogres: Dracos and Baboulas --
Omens of death and disaster --
Signs and countersigns --
A cross-mark to relieve distress --
Good luck and bad luck --
Beliefs about marriage --
Beliefs about children --
Plants, birds, animals and insects --
Nudity and planting customs --
Coplas from New Mexico --
Proverbs from Massachusetts --
Pennsylvania Dutch riddles --
A Connecticut riddle tale --
Riddles from South Carolina --
Riddles from South Carolina, with variants --
Riddles from Louisiana --
Riddles from New Jersey --
Ozark Mountain riddles --
A Blue Ridge Mountain riddle --
Riddles from Tennessee --
Woskate Takapsice or Sioux Shinney --
A game with eggs on Easter --
A rapid counting contest --
A guessing game with pecans --
Ring games of Negro children --
An evening party song-game --
A ball-bouncing and rope-jumping song --
A political jump-rope rhyme --
Counting out rhymes, with variants --
A children's dance rhyme --
Folk drama and folk festival --
A miracle play of the Rio Grande --
Christmas masking in Boston --
A Mummers' play from the Kentucky mountains --
Mother, mother, the milk's boiling over --
A ring game form North Carolina --
A Slovak harvest festival in New Jersey --
A Corpus Christi festival in Pennsylvania --
The Penitentes of New Mexico --
A Lenten procession in Arizona.
