Title: Hoosier Folklore

Volume 8 No. 1, 2 & 3(combined), 4 & Volume 9 No. 1-4, March 1949-Dec. 1950

A Quarterly Of Folklore From Indiana and Neighboring States 

Publication Information: Published Quarterly for the Hoosier Folklore Society by The Indiana Historical Bureau, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Additional Information: Pages are numbered consecutively in each volume. These volumes have 100 & 128 pages. Covers are on issues.

Summary: Contents Include:

• Nicknaming in Southwestern Kentucky by Mary Louise Simons
• Children’s Games and Game Rhymes by Warren Roberts
• A Hoosier Folk Game by Edith Walker Van Winkle
• Indiana Wart Cures by Violetta Halpert
• The Musician at the Devils’ Feast
• Moses Whitecotten, Hoosier Balladist and Rhymester by Paul Brewster
• Old Man Edmonds by Ruby Stainbrook Butler
• A New Collection of Hungarian Folktales by Thomas A. Sebeok and Ernest W. Baughman
• Book Reviews (in multiple issues)
• Anthropology and Folklore’s Second Century by Francis Lee Utley
• Nicknaming in Southern Germnay by William F. Amann
• The Piasa Bird: A Legend of the Illini by Paul G. Brewster
• Traditional Verse from Autograph Books by Lelah Allison
• Notes, Queries and Replies (in multiple issues)
• Folk Cures from Indiana by Violetta Halpert
• The Popular Conception of the Devil in Chaucer’s Day by Joseph Raben
• A Cheremis Autobiography by Thomas A. Sebeok
• Four Scandinavian Ghost Stories by Louise P. Olsen
• Folklore Institute of America
• The Gourd in Hoosier Land by Eddie W. Wilson
• Tales from the Ozark Hills by Vance Randolph
• A Chinese Ghost Story by Louise P. Olsen
• An Arapaho Version of the Star Husband Tale by Zdenek Salzmann
• The Romance of Quilt Names by Paul Brewster
• The Folksinger’s Defense by Wm. Hugh Jansen
• Southern Illinois Tales and Beliefs by Lelah Allison
• Arapho Tales I by Zdenek and Joy Salzmann
• Pictorial Folktales by Cecilia Hennel Hendricks
• The Insomniac Ghost by Louise P. Olsen
• Flying Saucers As Folklore by Howard H. Peckham
• The Tale Of The Scott County (Iowa) Militia by Pauline Cook
• Skeletons From A Homespunner’s Closet by Ruth Ann Musick
• A final Note

Condition: Hardcover, Ex-Lib-usual stamps/marks; text is sound; back cover has slight bow at bottom; first issue at bottom outside corner has hint of waviness and very faint stain so possibly been damp; overall a good readable copy.

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