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Dim Roads and Dark Nights: The Collected Folklore of Ruby Pickens Tartt: African-American Folklore » (1st ed)

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Authors: Alan Brown (Editor), Ruby Pickens Tartt
ISBN-13: 9780942979114, ISBN-10: 0942979117
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Livingston Press
Date Published: January 1990
Edition: 1st ed

Author Biography: Alan Brown

Book Synopsis

Alabama Black folktales collected in the 1930s and 40s. This is the first of the proposed three volume set of Miss Ruby's work.

	Foreword
	Folktales	1
	Waitin' on de Lawd fer Salvation	3
	Meetin' of de Animals an' Fowls To Reform	5
	The Lion and the Jackal	6
	De Devil and Mr. Bobtail	8
	Br'er Rabbit and Sister Partridge	9
	How Come de Dog Barks	10
	Jackal and Camel	11
	Butcher Bird and Frog	12
	Blue Jay and Hawk	13
	Br'er Fox, Br'er Rabbit and Sis Mary	14
	Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Wolf	15
	Dragon Fly and Honey Bee	17
	Elephant and Frog	18
	Br'er Rabbit and de Buzzard	19
	Rabbit in the Hollow Tree	22
	Rabbit and Briar Patch	23
	Brother Rabbit and Blacksnake	24
	Rabbit, Fox, and Rail Fence	25
	Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas	26
	Brother Hawk, Brother Buzzard, and Brother Rabbit	27
	Superstitions	29
	Biographies, Anecdotes	43
	A-Bumpin' and A-Bilin' (I)	46
	I Hopes I Don't Never Get That Hungry	47
	A Story Miss Ruby Told	48
	We Sold Out to the Boll Weevil	50
	Trustworthy-Kind-Loyal	52
	Alice	57
	Old Marse Ike's Favorite	64
	A-Bumpin' and A-Bilin'	66
	Anne Godfrey	68
	Tom Moore and His Death Money	70
	Bing Oliver Is a Pushin' Man	73
	Four of My Chillun Ain't No Blood Kin	75
	Graduated in Lies	80
	Seeking Salvation	86
	Blind Jesse and His 'Macordium'	90
	"Rich"	93
	A Conju' What Didn't Work	96
	An Unlettered Bard	99
	Enoch's Conjure	101
	How Sam Kungered Aunt Dicey	102
	Richard the Tall-Hearted	106
	A Pair of Blue Stockings	111
	Earthy-Ann	115
	Carrie Dykes - Midwife	123
	Negro Sermons and Preacher Stories	129
	Pay, Don't Pray!	133
	Five Were Foolish	134
	Buck Wynn	135
	A Negro Sermon	136
	Sermonizing (Rich Amerson)	138
	Animals in Church (Rich Amerson)	139
	Folk Rhymes, Sayings and Quotations	141
	Letters	149
	Afterword	179
	Appendix A	184
	Appendix B (Glossary)	191
	Bibliography	195
	Notes	199