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Ozark Superstitions by VANCE RANDOLPH. Preface: For obvious reasons it is not practicable to credit every item in this collection to the individual from whom it was obtained, as I have done in Ozark Folksongs and some of my other books. But for the sake of the record, I set down here the names of certain persons who have directly furthered my investigations. Among these must be listed Mrs. Anna Bacon, Galena, Mo. Dr. Charles Hillman Brough, Little Rock, Ark. Miss Nancy Clemens, Springfield, Mo. Dr. George E. Hastings, Fayetteville, Ark. Mr. Charles S. Hiatt, Cassville, Mo. Mrs. Dorn Higgins, Sulphur Springs, Ark. Mr. Earl Keithley, Day, Mo. Mr. Lewis Kelley, Cyclone, Mo. Mr. Maurice Lamberson, Bentonville, Ark. Mr. Cass Little, Anderson, Mo. Mr. Ernest Long, Joplin, Mo. Mrs. May Kennedy McCord, Springfield, Mo. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey, Mincy, Mo. Mrs. Mabel E. Mueller, Holla, Mo. Mrs. Geraldine Parker, St. Louis, Mo. Miss Rubey Poyner, Southwest City, Mo. Mr. Otto Ernest Rayburn, Eureka Springs, Ark. Dr. Oakley St. John, Pine ville, Mo. Mr. Clyde Sharp, Pack, Mo. Mr. Elbert Short, Crane, Mo. Mrs. Isabel Spradley, Van Buren, Ark. Mr. Fred Starr, Greenland, Ark. Mrs. Olga Trail, Farmington, Ark. Mrs. Ruth H. Tyler, Neosho, Mo. Mr. John Turner White, Jefferson City, Mo. Mrs. Marie Wilbur, Pineville, Mo. and Dr. J. H. Young, Galena, Mo. I wish to acknowledge my indebt edness to these people, but they are in no way responsible for my interpretation of the material, nor for the general character of the book. of the preliminary studies upon which this volume is d were printed as early as 1927, in the Journal of American viii PREFACE Folklore. My books The Ozarks and Ozark Mountain Folks, published by the Vanguard Press in 1931 and 1932, contained accounts of backwoods folk belief. Many supernatural narra tives, and some notes on water witching, first appeared in Ozark Ghost Stories and Tall Tales from the Ozarks, published and copyrighted by E. Haldeman-Julius, of Girard, Kansas. Several yarns about witchcraft were printed in Folk-Say, a regional annual edited by B. A. Botkin and brought out by the University of Oklahoma Press other related items first saw the light in the quarterly University Review, published at the Uni versity of Kansas Citj I am grateful to the owners of these copyrights for permission to reprint the material here. V. R. Galena, Missouri June 10, 1946 Contents include: 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. WEATHER SIGNS 10 3. CROPS AND LIVESTOCK 34 4. HOUSEHOLD SUPERSTITIONS 53 5. WATER WITCHES 82 6. MOUNTAIN MEDICINE 92 7. THE POWER DOCTORS 121 8. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 162 9. PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH 192 10. GHOST STORIES 211 11. ANIMALS AND PLANTS 240 12. OZARK WITCHCRAFT 264 13. DEATH AND BURIAL 801 14. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 328 BIBLIOGRAPHY 343 INDEX 353
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Book Description Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The people who live in the Ozark country of Missouri and Arkansas were, until very recently, the most deliberately unprogressive people in the United States. Descended from pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they made little contact with the outer world for more than a hundred years. They seem like foreigners to the average urban American, but nearly all of them come of British stock, and many families have lived in America since colonial days. Their material heirlooms are few, but like all isolated illiterates they have clung to the old songs and obsolete sayings and outworn customs of their ancestors.Sophisticated visitors sometimes regard the 'hillbilly' as a simple child of nature, whose inmost thoughts and motivations may be read at a glance. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The hillman is secretive and sensitive beyond anything that the average city dweller can imagine, but he isn't simple. His mind moves in a tremendously involved system of signs and omens and esoteric auguries. He has little interest in the mental procedure that the moderns call science, and his ways of arranging data and evaluating evidence are very different from those currently favored in the world beyond the hilltops. The Ozark hillfolk have often been described as the most superstitious people in America. It is true that some of them have retained certain ancient notions which have been discarded and forgotten in more progressive sections of the United States. It has been said that the Ozarker got his folklore from the Negro, but the fact is that Negroes were never numerous in the hill country, and there are many adults in the Ozarks today who have never even seen a Negro. Another view is that the hillman's superstitions are largely of Indian origin, and there may be a measure of truth in this; the pioneers did mingle freely with the Indians, and some of our best Ozark families still boast of their Cherokee blood. My own feeling is that most of the hillman's folk beliefs came with his ancestors from England or Scotland. I believe that a comparison of my material with that recorded by British antiquarians will substantiate this opinion. Seller Inventory # 9781443726658
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