The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore: Popular beliefs and superstitions from North CarolinaDuke University Press, 1952 - Folk songs, English |
Contents
PREFACE | xix |
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED | xlix |
Where Children Come From 3 Fertility | 6 |
Bed Wetting 47 Bowlegs | 50 |
Whooping Cough 67 Worms | 68 |
School 68 Speaking in Unison | 74 |
The Sick | 103 |
Animal Cures | 109 |
Miscellaneous 645 | 645 |
of Wedding Weather 648 Wedding Clothes | 657 |
vii | xvii |
PREFACE | xxiii |
DEATH AND FUNEREAL CUSTOMS | 3 |
Mirrors 29 | 29 |
Stars 41 | 41 |
Trees 73 Farm Implements 76 | 76 |
Ague 117 Amputations | 117 |
Bed Sores 123 Bile 123 Bladder Disorders | 123 |
Blood Poison 129 Blood Pressure | 129 |
Disease | 135 |
Chapping 141 Chicken Pox | 141 |
Cuts | 159 |
Cramp 163 Croup | 166 |
Dizziness 171 Dog Bite | 171 |
Eczema 178 Epilepsy 178 | 178 |
Eye Ailments 180 Fainting | 184 |
Fever 186 Fever Blisters | 192 |
Gall Stones 200 Gargle | 200 |
Heart Trouble 211 Hemor | 220 |
Jaundice Green Sickness 226 Kidney Trouble | 228 |
Mumps 235 Muscular Condition 236 Nausea | 236 |
Operations 247 Palsy 247 Pellagra | 247 |
Poison Oak | 252 |
Throat Ailments 300 Toenails 301 Toothache | 307 |
Lunacy 356 For | 357 |
Sweeping Cleaning | 377 |
Moving Setting up House 381 Entering a House | 385 |
place Fire 391 Lamps Lights Candles Matches | 395 |
Household Furnishings Ladders 396 Sleeping | 405 |
Suits | 411 |
Beliefs About Clothing | 421 |
ECONOMIC SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS | 440 |
General Beliefs 456 | 456 |
TRAVEL COMMUNICATION | 493 |
Roosters | 525 |
Lizards | 533 |
552 Hair Hair | 552 |
Seeds Leaves Plants Herbs etc 617 | 617 |
DELAYED MARRIAGE | 628 |
Table Cutlery Food | 635 |
The Corpse 82 Wake | 84 |
WITCHCRAFT GHOSTS MAGICAL PRACTICES | 99 |
of Witches Bewitchment 115 Preventives | 132 |
Spirits 144 Warding Off Spirits | 145 |
Water Witching | 174 |
TIMES NUMBERS | 183 |
Miscellaneous 193 | 193 |
WEATHER | 209 |
Cold Severe Winters 215 | 215 |
Weather Indicators 222 | 235 |
Clear Weather 238 Sunny Weather Sun Eclipse | 251 |
Hot Weather 264 Wet Falling Weather 265 | 265 |
Indicators 269 The Sun as Indicator of Rain | 273 |
Aches Physical Signs | 303 |
Birds 313 Reptiles 319 Amphibians | 309 |
ANIMALS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY | 372 |
Rabbits 423 | 423 |
BEES 435 | 435 |
Habits Training etc 454 Colic 455 | 455 |
Altering | 461 |
SHEEP 469 | 469 |
Clover Grass 491 | 491 |
General 500 Fertilizing Plow | 500 |
Cotton Peanuts 511 | 511 |
Beans 512 Beets 517 Cabbage 518 | 518 |
Cucumbers | 527 |
Sage Tansy 539 Tobacco 540 | 540 |
Grapes Hops 547 | 547 |
Planting Transplanting 553 Budding Graft | 554 |
Miscellaneous | 566 |
573 | 573 |
INFORMANTS AND COLLECTORS | 581 |
INDEX | 589 |
Copyright | |