The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales /

The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales / / Vance Randolph.

Presents many Ozark folk tales shaped and polished by their oral tradition of storytelling documented over years in cabins, stores, campfires, and dances.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
VerfasserIn:
Randolph, Vance,
TeilnehmendeR:
Halpert, Herbert.
Rounds, Glen.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1957]
©1957
Year of Publication:1957
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Talking Turtle
  • Blood in the Cellar
  • The Curse of Monegaw
  • The Foreigner's Head
  • Big Wind at Hurley
  • The Well Digger
  • Loosening Weeds
  • The Wicked Stepmother
  • Blind Date on Bull Creek
  • The Hollering Story
  • It Just Suits Me
  • The Big Black Booger
  • Big Fraid and Little Fraid
  • The Wise Man's Questions
  • Fiddler's Cave
  • The Holy Rollers
  • A Little More Cider
  • The Spanish Burial
  • To Hell with Joplin
  • We Call It Lapland
  • The Magic Window
  • She's Got One Spoiled Tit
  • The Yank Reunion
  • Old Man Price's Boar
  • The Two White Springs
  • They All Started from Scratch
  • Pinkley Was a Fool
  • Women Run with the Wolves
  • The Silent Rifle
  • Jack and the Gower
  • He Wasn't My Son-in-Law
  • The Ghost Was Still Mad
  • God Damn the Wind
  • The Looking Glass
  • Harvey and Myra
  • Four Aces Ain't Good
  • Tobey the Kingsnake
  • Hell Among the Chickens
  • Gabe Says It Ain't So Bad
  • The Booger Dog
  • An Innocent Man
  • Good Country Buttermilk
  • What They Told on Jasper
  • Paw Won't Like This
  • The Lazy Fanner
  • A Private Room
  • Brains for a Tanner
  • They Moved the Graveyard
  • Yocum Used his Head
  • A Pickard Never Forgets
  • The Chili King
  • Turtles Grow Fast
  • The Bolster
  • Ida Street's Byword
  • Tom and Jerry
  • Wild Pigeons
  • Sam Fenton Was Tempted
  • Plumbing in Oklahoma
  • Three Silver Legs
  • Can Rats Read?
  • The Paper Salesman
  • He Talked Kind of Slow
  • Them Drunken Painters
  • The Son of a Bishop
  • The Man That Hated Bats
  • Gold Is Where You Find It
  • Cruelty to Animals
  • You Ain't Coming Back
  • They Prayed to the Sun
  • The Crow That Talked
  • Jack and the Old Witch
  • The Death of Little Jemson
  • Signs of the Times
  • Ice in the Beer
  • Teddy Ketchum
  • The Bloody Miller
  • The Sheriff Give Him Rope
  • Dunwoody's Last Joke
  • Riding on the Cars
  • The Belled Buzzard
  • A Little Piece of Thread
  • The Big Rabbits
  • How to Get Rid of Doctors
  • The Preacher Wouldn't Eat
  • Three Foot Deeper
  • The Necessities of Life
  • Riddle Me This
  • The Man from Texas
  • A Barrel of Popcorn
  • Change the Name of Arkansas?
  • Johnny's Little Dog
  • There's a Sleight to It
  • On Trial for His Life
  • Wolves Are My Brothers
  • Old Horny
  • She Wanted a Divorce
  • Backhouse Albert's Money
  • The Cat's Foot
  • Little Toody
  • Adam and Eve
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Works Cited

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