Dictionary of American Folklore.
Discover the delightful tales, characters, and themes of classic American storytelling in this comprehensive Dictionary of American Folklore. Ever wonder the origins of the fairy tales, myths, and legends passed down from generation to generation throughout America's long history' From Pau...
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| 500 | |a Butterfly beliefs among the Indians. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Title Page; Table of Contents; A; absentmindedness; absquatulate; Acadian customs; Adam's Tavern (later known as Wadsworth's); Adirondack customs; Adirondack guides; Ah Quong's Inn; albino animals; algerines; All quiet on the Potomac; "All the Law West of the Pecos"; alphabet recitation; Al Smith; alum; ambulance chaser; Amish customs; animals in folklore; anti-macassar; Arkansas Traveler; Army folklore terms; asafetida; Ascension Day; aspen leaf; as straight as Pearl Street; Astor of Waldorf; "avoiding"; B; Babbitt; Babe, the Blue Ox; Baby's first lock of hair. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Baby removed from dead motherbachelor buttons; backstone (attually back hearthstone); backward action; bacon and . greens; bad dress rehearsal-good opening; badger; badgers; bad man; Balaam's basket; balance and swing; ballast for fish; Ball the Jack; "balloon lines"; Bals du Roi (Kings' Balls); Baltimore, gastronomic center of the world; bandanna; band wagon, to get on; Bang-All; banjo; bank barns; barber's cat; barber shop mugs; barnstormer; barrel house; barrel treatment for drunkenness; barrenness; Barricke Mariche; Bartholomew baby; basers; Basin Street; bathing beauties; Battalion Day. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Battle-ax beliefs (Pennsylvania)bayberry candles; Bayou State; bear-hunting, Ozark style; "bear traps"; bearwalkers; beats my time; beaver; bed-rock, to be down to; bed superstitions; bee; Beecher's Bibles; beeswax candles; belaying-pin soup; "Bell don't make bump"; bells of Conestoga wagons; Belsnickel; Ben Delimus; "best wore out"; Bet-A-Million Gates; betsy lamp; bezoars; bibliomancy; Big Owl; "Big Runaway"; Big Sea Day; Billy the Kid; Binghamton's Origin; bird in the house; bird lore; Birthday folklore; birthday superstitions; Biscaino, Don Pedro; black birding; "black cat." | |
| 505 | 8 | |a "Black grains"Black Hawk; "Black legs"; "Black Robes"; blood beliefs; bloviating; "Blow Gabriel Blow"; blow the grampus; blue-eyed boy; Blue Hen's Chickens; Blue Hill Hermit; bluejay; "Blue line" activities; Blue-noses; blues; Blue-Tail Fly; blutz-wagon; Bodie, California; "body masters"; bonanza; boneshaker; bonnyclabber; boogie-woogie; bookmaking customs; boomers; boom rats; "boom town" game; boot, boot camp; Boot Hill; borderer; Boston titles; "boughten bread"; bowling at pins; box-cars; Boxer Day; brakeman on the railroads; "brave man"; bread dance; bread superstitions; break a mirror. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Break broth"breast stones"; Brer Rabbit; brick making, colonial style; bridal knots; Bridal Veil Falls; "broad horn" boat; broken striper; Bronx cheer; Brother Jonathan; bruder pleger (caretaker); Bruneau John of Idaho; brunswick stew; brush fires; buckaroo; bucking board; "Buck Private"; buckwheat cakes; bull; bulls and bears; bull boat (Missouri style); Buller legends of Lake Superior; "Bullet Barons"; "bull jine"; bull whacker; bunk fatigue; bunny meat (rabbit food); Bunyan's animals; burgo; bursting horns; bury the hatchet; Buster Brown; butter-and-egg man; butter-making. | |
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