I. Maine down-easters; 1. Sea traditions: Bad luck at sea
The haunted ship "resolution"
The sailor who went inland
2. Hero legends of Barney Beal: Barney kills a horse with his fist
Barney Beal kills prize fighter
Barney Beal lifts rock out of Dory
How Barney Beal got the bump on his nose
The cause of Barney's death
3. Witches and spirits: Mother Hicks the witch
4. Anecdotes of local characters: Anecdotes of Captain Horace Smith
Personal anecdotes of Curt Morse
5. Jocular tales: Stories about couples
6. Local ballads: The serenade
Eben Stanwood the peddler
The champion of Moose Hill
II. Pennsylvania dutchman; 1. Brauche and Hexe: The sixth and seventh books of Moses
2. Farm folk beliefs: Stockraising and the barnyard
Planting, sowing, and reaping
3. Belief tales: Christmas Eve in the stable
4. Noodle tales: Eileschpijjel
5. Proverbs: Farm sayings
Personal and local proverbs
6. Proverbial tales: Think thrice before you speak
7. Riddles: The riddle of Ilo
8. Songs: "We journey to America"
"When I came to this country"
"The Merztown Cornet Band"
III. Southern mountaineers; 1. Jack tales: Jack the giant killer
2. Jocular tales: The King and Old George Buchanan
North Carolina Mountain jests
3. Murder legends and ballads: The crying stair well
"The murder of Lottie Yates"
4. Cante fables: The cante fable in eastern Kentucky
A cante fable in North Carolina
6. Folk drama: Survivals of old folk drama in the Kentucky Mountains
7. Carols: "Mummers' carol"
IV. Louisiana Cajuns; 1. Folkways: Folkways of Avoyelles parish
2. Contes populaires: Bouki and Lapin in the smokehouse
Bouki and the rabbit and the well
Foolish John and the errands
The frog and the princess
The mouse, the sausage, and the bird
3. Folk doctors: "Traiteurs" or Folk doctors in southwest Louisiana.
4. Conjure, hoodoo, and gris-gris: Conjure
7. Folk celebration: Country mardi gras
8. Chansons: Acculturation in cajun folk music
V. Illinois Egyptians; 1. Place names: "Egypt"-A wandering place-name legend
2. Ghosts: Ghost-Stories in Egypt
The ghost and the sewing machine
The girl who died of fright
4. Witches: The witch who stole milk
5. Folk medicine: Folk medicine in southern Illinois
6. Folk beliefs: Weather signs
Beliefs connected with birth and infancy
Beliefs connected with dreams
7. Folktales: Tales from Ireland
How death came to Ireland
Jack and the sheep's head
The cold snap of '83 in Thebes
Davy Crockett and old bounce
The cat with the wooden paw
"You haven't packed the saddle"
Substituting for the off ox
8. Folk speech: Folk sayings and expressions from southeastern Illinois
Some German proverb in southern Illinois
9. Games and game rhymes: Children's games in Egypt
Singing games in southern Illinois
"Let's go down to Rowsha's"
10. Folksongs: Songs from Great Britain; "Lady Isabel and the elf-knight"
Native American ballads; "Brother Green, or the dying soldier"
"The death of Charlie Burger"
Songs of sin, politics, and love; "Young people who delight in sin"
"The old girl of Cairo town"
VI. Southwest Mexicans; 1. Cuentos: Ignez was a burro
2. Leyendas: The weeping woman
The hermit of Hermit's Peak
Don Peanut and Dona Peanut
The new Mexican and the Californians
8. Corridos: "Corrido de Gregorio Cortez"
"Corrido de Jacinto Trevino"
"Corrido de la Muerte de de Antonio Mestas"
"El contrabando del paso"
VII. Utah Mormons; 1. Saints' legends: Collecting oral legends of the Three Nephites
How Mrs. Fisher's voice was restored
The white bread on the white cloth
The hitchhiking ghost Nephite
2. Local legends: The devil appears at the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
A massacred mother returns to see her child
The miracle of the Miller's sacks
3. Comic stories: Anecdotes of J. Golden Kimball.
Danish dialect stories of the Mormon Church
Missionaries and the "spirit"
4. Folksongs of Mormons: "The mountain meadows massacre"
"The seagulls and the crickets"
"Don't you marry the Mormon boys"
