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Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro

Originally produced as for a Doctorate of Philosophy at Yale, this remarkable history of twenty or so years of Black life in the South is fascinating. Centering around folklore and superstition, it details "Negro folk beliefs, to show their origin whenever possible, and to indicate some of the general principles governing the transmission and content of folk-lore in general." (From the preface...)

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