Tales. Women who run with the wolves (hunter)
Witch tales told at an apple-butter boiling (farmer)
The providential hand in Iowa (pioneer farmer)
The clever coyote (government trapper)
The frozen flame (prospector)
Tennessee catfish (fisherman)
Rocky Mountain rattlesnakes (prospector)
Strong man frees himself (cowboy)
Strong man to the rescue (laborer)
The sheep-jiggers (sheepherder)
Steak and mutton chops (sheepman)
The smart sheep dog (sheepherder)
The telegraphic dog (railroad telegrapher)
The violinist in the tunnel (railroad yard maintenance)
The light in the water (farmer)
The handprint on the prison wall (coal mining)
The ghostly priest: an Irish tale comes to America (priest)
Campus horror stories (college student)
Tales from black college students (college student)
Four black preachers (preacher)
Masonic brotherhood (military)
A traveling salesman story (lawyer)
Told in the pilot house (river pilot)
The stuttering deck hand (steamboat captain)
The rich lore of the plaza (hotel keeping)
Murgatroyd the kluge maker (kluge maker).
Songs. The sailor's tragedy (sailor)
Red iron ore (Great Lakes sailor)
Canal dance (canal boatman)
Boatmen's songs (oarsman)
Great Lakes chantey (Great Lakes sailor)
Circus chanteys (roustabout)
Work-gang chants (railroad maintenance)
Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie (cowboy)
A home on the range (cowboy)
The big eau clair (logging)
Shanty teamsters' marseillaise (teamster)
California gold rush songs (prospector)
Civil war street ballads (military)
The wreck of Old 97 (railroading)
Thought I heard that K.C. whistle blow (migrant worker)
Lookin' for that bully of this town: two versions (outlaw)
Three black religious songs (farmer)
A revival hymn and its illegitimate progeny (professional singing family).
Verse. Rhymes from powder horns (soldiers and hunters)
Tradesmen's versified advertising (barber, tailor, merchant)
Great Lakes weather rhymes (Great Lakes sailor)
Rhyme about a scold (nurse)
Jump rope chants (children)
Babies in the mills (cotton mill worker)
Autograph book verse (junior high school student)
Ballyhoo for a geek (slide-show performer)
Folk poems of a narcotics addict (drug addict)
Corn-planting chant (farmer)
The Donora tragedy (folk poet).
Riddles. Riddles of high school students (high school student)
Rural rhyming riddles (farmer)
Spelling riddles (school child)
Shaggy elephants (student)
Knock-knock (high school student)
Saved by a riddle (outlaw)
Exposed by a riddle (farmer)
Wind-up doll: half riddle, half joke (entertaininer, politician, writer, preacher, professional athlete).
Superstitions, practices, and customs. May morning and love charms (farmer)
Maybe letter (adolescent)
Why the poplar trembles (laborer)
The seventh inning (professional baseball)
Lincoln's four-leaf clover (professional tennis)
Please give me a bow (child)
Tricks on greenhorns (sandhog)
To try for a witch (farmer)
How to get rid of rats (rat conjurer)
How to use a divining rod (diviner)
Witching for water: scientifically (diviner)
Divination with an egg (laundress)
Possessed of spirits (seer and root-doctor)
Conjured (seer and root-doctor)
Beliefs about animals (farmer)
Tiger escaped from a circus (circus)
Household beliefs (housewife)
Country cooking (farmers' wives)
Midwives' tales (midwife)
Mormon midwives (midwife))
Home remedies for infant diseases (folk medicine)
Home medication in Indiana (folk medicine)
Incantations for burns, bruises, and blood stopping (folk medicine)
Buffalo chips as a remedy (folk medicine)
A fertility rite for flax growing (farmer)
Taxi talk in New York City (cab driver)
The boss and the working girl (garment worker, typist)
Swapping work: a country custom (farmer)
Running a log raft (raftsman)
Diving for the cross and calming the sea (sponge fisher)
Indian fishing beliefs (fisherman)
Stage superstitions (actor)
World War II airmen's beliefs (combat airman)
Garment industry beliefs and customs (garment worker)
Miners underground (miner)
Folk beliefs of a preacher (preacher)
Turning a trick (prostitute).
Folk expressions. Street cries of chimney sweeps (chimney sweep)
The cry of the pepper pot woman (street vendor)
Lone tree: origin of the name (pioneer farmer)
Complimentary closings from autograph books (high school student)
So low that... (college student)
College humor (college student)
Lumberjack nicknames (logging)
Steamboat names and nicknames (river boating)
Soda fountain lingo (fountain dispenser)
Student nonsense orations (student)
Almighty dollar: a burlesque prayer (business)
Calling Pedro: with various explanations (college student)
Calling domestic animals (farmer)
Controlling draft animals by voice (teamster).
Games. My pretty little pink (child)
Child-made toys (children)
Kentucky school days in the 1930s (grade school pupil)
Guessing games (children)
Kissing games (adolescents)
The little brown bulls: a skidding contest (loggers)
Ugly man contest (ranchers, farmers)
Variations on stickball (city boys)
Crosbee (prep school boys).
Ritual, drama, and festival. The New Year's Shoot (farmer)
California's fisherman festivals (fishermen)
Decoration Day in a country town (student)
Half-time homecoming ritual at Georgia Tech (college student)
The Spring Riot (college student)
Indian war dance: changing fashions (dance exposition)
Stringbeans and Sweetie May (comedy dancers)
The last of the toby shows (show business)
Teatra campesino (migrant farm worker).
Famed in song and story: a dozen legendary figures. Two legal worthies (lawyer)
Adam Puckett: God's angry man (farmer)
Moses Stocking (sheep breeder)
The Reverend Peter Vinegar (preacher)
A gone 'coon (soldier and hunter)
Tim Murphy and the Indians (frontier scout)
Railroad Bill: black Robin Hood (train robber)
Paul Revere's ride: a children's folk play (children)
Two black versions: Casey Jones and Joseph Mica (railroad engineers)
Joe Hill (labor organizer)
Johnny Appleseed (planter and frontier preacher)
Faking Daniel Boone lore (axman).
