Varick's lady o' dreams.--The exorcism of Lily Bell.--Her last day.--The simple life of Genevieve Maud.--His boy.--The community's sunbeam.--In memory of Hannah's laugh.--The quest of Aunt Nancy.--The Henry Smith's honeymoon.--The case of Katrina.--Bart Harrington, genius
"Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. Vol. IV. Current Superstitions" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 9 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-532996
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"Record of Negro Folk-Lore" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 21 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534650
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"Record of Negro Folk-Lore" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 22 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534317
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"Record of Negro Folk-Lore" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 17 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-533968
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"Porto-Rican Folk-Lore. Folk-Tales (Continued)" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 35 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-535223
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"Porto-Rican Folk-Lore. Riddles" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 29 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534388
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"Porto-Rican Folk-Lore. Décimas, Christmas Carols, Nursery Rhymes, and Other Songs" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 31 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534783
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"Porto-Rican Folk-Lore. Folk-Tales" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 34 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-535132
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"Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. Vol. II., 1895, Louisiana Folk-Tales" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 8 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-533083
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"Some Tales from Bahama Folk-Lore" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 4 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-532935
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"Items of Folk-Lore from Bahama Negroes" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 17 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-533987
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"Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. III. Bahama Songs and Stories" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 8 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534100
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Topics: Animals, African Americans
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Culbertson, Anne Virginia, b. 1864
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Topics: Animals, African Americans
"Negro Customs and Folk-Stories of Jamaica" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 9 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534116
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"Some Tales from Bahama Folk-Lore. Fairy Stories" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 4 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534010
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"Creole Folk-Lore from Jamaica. I. Proverbs" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 9 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-532992
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"Creole Folk-Lore from Jamaica. II. Nancy Stories" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 9 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-532976
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""Go Tell Aunt Nancy"" is an article from The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 26 . View more articles from The Journal of American Folklore . View this article on JSTOR . View this article's JSTOR metadata . You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-534401
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Topics: Missions -- Africa, West, Africa, West -- Description and travel
California Digital Library
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Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
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Bibliography: p. 13-14
Topics: South Africa -- Discovery and exploration, South Africa -- Description and travel
Topic: South Africa -- Description and travel
448, viii p. 23 cm.
Topic: Zulu (African people)--Religion
Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion Author: Michael York Published by Springer International Publishing ISBN: 978-3-319-18922-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18923-9 Table of Contents: Overview Idolatry and Ethics The Classical Divide The Ancient World The Western Philosophical Tradition Friedrich Nietzsche Post-Nietzsche Virtue Ethics The Pagan Quadrivium The Trivium of Worship Same-Sex Unions and Recreational Drugs Terrorism and Death Issues Hegemony and Environment Pagan Ethics vis-Ã -vis...
Topics: Humanities, Ethics, Religion (General), Humanities / Arts, Religious Studies, Ethics, Culture -...
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Electric SanterÃa: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús Copyright © 2015 Columbia University Press All rights reserved SanterÃa is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational...
Topic: Electric SanterÃa
Topics: Zulu (African people) -- Religion, Ancestor worship, Divination, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and...
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Schillings, Carl Georg, 1865-1921; Whyte, Frederic, 1867-1941, tr
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Topics: africa, wildest, wild, animals, animal, african, elephants, masai, wildest africa, wild animals,...
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=4dcRAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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Topics: west, african, africa, native, coast, fetish, trade, natives, west africa, west african, crown...
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=5JoNcKqO-CgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
"Adapted from 'Fetichism in West Africa.'"
Topic: Fetishism
Source: folio
California Digital Library
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Andersson, Charles John, 1827-1867; Making of America Project; Lloyd, L. (Llewelyn), 1792?-1876
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Topic: South Africa -- Description and travel
California Digital Library
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South Africa. Railways and Harbours Board
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Topic: South Africa -- Description and travel
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Topic: Africa, West -- Description and travel
Cornell University Library
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Baudin, r. p. (Noël), 1845-1887; Planque, Augustin, d. 1907; McMahon, Mary
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Topics: Society of African Missions, Fetishism, Black race
Folkscanomy: A Library of Books
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Baudin, r. p. (Noël), 1845-1887; Planque, Augustin, -1907; McMahon, Mary, translator
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Digitized by Google
Topics: Fetishism, Society of African Missions, Black race
Majority World Collection
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Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1844-1879
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North Africa
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Lawrence GREEN
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Lawrence GREEN writes mostly about South West Africa and other parts of Old Africa.
Topics: South West Africa, Namibia
The document presents a unit on Africa and Ghana for seventh grade language arts and eighth grade remedial English classes. It is one of a number of interdisciplinary products developed by a summer workshop for teachers on African curriculum development. The objectives are to help rid students of stereotypes and to make them aware of the diversity of culture on the continent of Africa. An introduction states five educational objectives and six skills relating to African history and geography,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African Culture, African Literature, Art Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational...
du Plessis Africana Collection
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Murray, William Hoppe, 1866-1947; Napier, R. H; Ndombe, Che; National Bible Society of Scotland; British and Foreign Bible Society; Union Nyanja Translation Committee; Dutch Reformed Church Mission; Church of Scotland Mission
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The first Bible in chiChewa
Topic: Nyanja language
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Rebman, John, 1820-1876; Krapf, J. L. (Johann Ludwig), 1810-1881; Church Missionary Society
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Nyanja language
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=185HAAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Rebman, John, 1820-1876; Krapf, J. L. (Johann Ludwig), 1810-1881, ed; Church Missionary Society
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Virginia and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: Nyanja language
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=VIIOAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8
du Plessis Africana Collection
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The first Bible in chiChewa
Topics: Nyanja language, Nyanja language
du Plessis Africana Collection
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Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland), 1881-1938; Hetherwick, Alexander, b. 1860
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Topics: Folklore, Nyanja language
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Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland), 1881-1938
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California Digital Library
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Brackenbury, Henry, Sir, 1837-1914; Huyshe, George Lightfoot, 1839-1874
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Topics: Fanti (African people), Ashanti (African people), Ghana -- History
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Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland), 1881-1938. ed. and tr; Christaller, Johann Gottlieb, 1827-1895
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Topics: Twi language, Proverbs, Ashanti
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Topics: Proverbs, Ashanti, Twi language, Ashanti (African people) -- Folklore, Ashanti
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Albert Burgman; Kevin McKelson
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Topics: dictionaries, Karajarri language, English language
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Albert Burgman
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Topics: dictionaries, Yindjibarndi language, English language
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Collins, Winfield Hazlitt, 1868-1927
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Topics: African Americans, Lynching
2 v. ;|c22 cm. (8vo) "De l'Imprimerie de Mame frères": verso of half-title leaf, v. 1
Topics: Voodooism, Slave insurrections, Imprint 1814
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Cave, Hugh B. (Hugh Barnett), 1910-2004
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Topics: Voodooism, Missions, Blacks
This is a collection of nine stories, some short, and some not so short. They are all very good reading, and Kingston seems to be at his best in the short story mode. You will probably enjoy the two episodes from the life of "Uncle Boz", that form the second story, especially the first, when he organises the rescue of the crew and passengers of a vessel that is wrecked near his house on a stormy Christmas Day. The first story, "Happy Jack", is by far the longest, occupying...
Topics: Athelstane, Kingston, Tales, Sea, PDF, TXT, ZIP, HTML
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Baskerville, Rosetta Gage (Harvey)
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v.1-3. Short stories of the tragedy and comedy of life.--v.4. Sur l'eau, and other tales. Des vers.--v.5. Pierre et Jean, and other tales.--v.6. Fort comme la mort, and other tales.--v.7. Au soleil; or, African wanderings. La vie errante; or, In vagabondia.--v.8. Notre coeur. Yvette
v.1-3. Short stories of the tragedy and comedy of life.--v.4. Sur l'eau, and other tales. Des vers.--v.5. Pierre et Jean, and other tales.--v.6. Fort comme la mort, and other tales.--v.7. Au soleil; or, African wanderings. La vie errante; or, In vagabondia.--v.8. Notre coeur. Yvette
v.1-3. Short stories of the tragedy and comedy of life.--v.4. Sur l'eau, and other tales. Des vers.--v.5. Pierre et Jean, and other tales.--v.6. Fort comme la mort, and other tales.--v.7. Au soleil; or, African wanderings. La vie errante; or, In vagabondia.--v.8. Notre coeur. Yvette
v.1-3. Short stories of the tragedy and comedy of life.--v.4. Sur l'eau, and other tales. Des vers.--v.5. Pierre et Jean, and other tales.--v.6. Fort comme la mort, and other tales.--v.7. Au soleil; or, African wanderings. La vie errante; or, In vagabondia.--v.8. Notre coeur. Yvette
v.1-3. Short stories of the tragedy and comedy of life.--v.4. Sur l'eau, and other tales. Des vers.--v.5. Pierre et Jean, and other tales.--v.6. Fort comme la mort, and other tales.--v.7. Au soleil; or, African wanderings. La vie errante; or, In vagabondia.--v.8. Notre coeur. Yvette
Vol. 1.: Treaties with the natives -- General condition of the natives on the first arrival of Europeans among them -- Details regarding the institutions and manners of the natives on the first arrival of Europeans among them - the Kaffers. V. 2.: The Hottentots -- The Bosjemans
Topics: Xhosa (African people), Khoikhoi (African people), Khoisan (African People), San (African people)
Vol. 1.: Treaties with the natives -- General condition of the natives on the first arrival of Europeans among them -- Details regarding the institutions and manners of the natives on the first arrival of Europeans among them - the Kaffers. V. 2.: The Hottentots -- The Bosjemans
Topics: Xhosa (African people), Khoikhoi (African people), Khoisan (African People), San (African people)
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"The original Bushman text ... is printed side by side with the English translation."
Topics: Folklore, San (African people)
Cornell University Library
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Bleek, W. H. I. (Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel), 1827-1875; Lloyd, Lucy Catherine, d. 1914; Theal, George McCall, 1837-1919
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Topics: Folklore, San (African people)
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Héli Chatelain
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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=1kQKAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Héli Chatelain
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=9gMUAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8
Majority World Collection
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Chatelain, Heli, 1859-1908; American Folklore Society
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Bibliography: p. 310
Topics: Legends, Kimbundu language
University of Michigan Books
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Bergen, Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson), b. 1846; Newell, William Wells, 1839-1907, ed
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450 copies printed
Topics: Folklore, Folklore
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Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton), 1848- n 50010140
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Includes index
Topics: Folklore, Superstitions
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Jackson, Arthur Mason Tippetts, -1909; Enthoven, R. E. (Reginald Edward), 1869-1952. no 92030383
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"Reprinted from the ʻIndian antiquary."
Topic: Folklore
