Folk Lore Of The Sea Islands South Carolina

This eclectic collection is a classic volume of beautiful tales and songs from South Carolina’s sea-island folklore. First published in 1923, this wonderful folklore collection by Elsie Clews Parson features over 170 tales alongside many traditional riddles, proverbs, toasts, verses, and songs from the sea islands of South Carolina. This volume also includes a foreword by Jean-Louis Brindamour. Some of the lyrical folktales featured in this volume include: - Woman-Cat - Frog Escapes - Cartload of Fish - Tiger’s Wife - God and Fortune - Witch-Man and Rooster - Racing a Ghost - The Irishman and the Donkeys - The Three Sweethearts

Eighteen Afro-American folktales from South Carolina, including several tales about Br'er Rabbit.

"Chireau has written a marvelous text on an important dimension of African American religious culture. Expanding beyond the usual focus of scholarship on Christianity, she describes and analyzes the world of magical-medical-religious practice, challenging hallowed distinctions among "religion" and "magic." Anyone interested in African American religion will need to reckon seriously with Chireau's text on conjure."—Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University "Deprived of their own traditions and defined as chattel, enslaved Africans formed a new orientation in America. Conjuring—operating alongside of and within both the remnants of African culture and the acquired traditions of North America—served as a theoretical and practical mode of deciphering and divining within this, enabling them to create an alternate meaning of life in the New World. Chireau's is the first full-scale treatment of this important dimension of African American culture and religion. A wonderful book!"—Charles H. Long, Professor of History of Religions University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Religion

Re-creates the daily life of the slaves. What they wore and ate, how they celebrated and mourned, the culture they created.

Eighteen Afro-American folktales from South Carolina, including several tales about Br'er Rabbit.