Dictionary of American Folklore

• Autore: Tallman Marjorie
• Pubblicazione: Newburyport : , : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., , 1960; ©1959
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 pages)
• Disciplina: 398.097303
• Soggetto topico: Folklore - United States
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- baby removed from dead mother -- bachelor 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 -- 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" -- "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 -- 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 -- butterfly beliefs among the Indians -- butterfly beliefs in other parts of the United States -- C -- cabin fever -- caboodle -- caboteurs -- cactus -- Cafe Society -- cahoots, to be in -- cakewalk -- calash -- calico queen -- California melon picking -- California sock -- calling the wind -- callout dances -- calumet -- Cambridge Common Exhibition -- camel express -- camphor superstitions -- can -- can openers -- canary superstitions. ; Canal Street (Buffalo) -- cancellation of letters -- "Candle-maker" -- candlewood -- Cape Cod houses -- Cape Cod lore -- Cap Cod named -- capping a tale -- card playing superstitions -- Carnegie Legends -- Carver's Cave -- casket girls (filles a la casette) -- casket shortage -- cast down and cast off -- Castella Legend -- caterpillars -- cat superstitions -- catfish troubles -- Cattle Kate -- cat with wooden leg -- "caulk off" -- Cave-In-the-Rock, Kentucky -- cayuse -- chair rail -- chameleon -- chanson des voyageurs (chants of the woodsmen) -- chaparejos (chaparereras) -- chaparral fox -- charivari -- Charlestown (South Carolina) -- cherry-tree deer -- chew the fat -- Chinese funeral customs in Idaho -- Chinese in the early mining days -- chin music -- chin superstitions -- Chippewa's gain fire -- Chitlins or chitterlings -- cigar store Indians -- "Cindy" -- circular story -- cisterns -- Civil War greetings -- clean shirts for sea captains -- cloak and dagger merchant -- coal as fuel -- coarse materials known to the colonial South -- cob iron -- cockroach bosses -- codfish superstitions -- coffee pot sailor -- "coffin-notices" -- coin flipping -- cold brand or hair brand -- cold sores -- cold thunder -- "Colonel Colt's equalizer" -- colonial drinks -- "coloring in early America" -- color symbolism -- "Colt on Revolvers" -- Columbia, Pennsylvania -- Columbus circle or balloon tire -- comancheros -- comb superstitions -- come-all-ye -- "Come up and see me some time" -- compressed hay -- conches -- conestogas-"stogies" -- conjuring lodge -- conner -- contagious magic -- "cookem fry" -- cookie-pusher -- Coolidge humor as Vice-President -- coon skin of Davy Crockett -- coon, to go the whole coon -- Cooney-caboose -- coontie -- cooper -- coopers -- Cooperstown, New York -- Coos Bay -- copper captain -- corduroy roads -- corn -- corn freight. ; Cornish customs -- "cotton boxes" -- counting-out games -- courtship limited in New England -- Cousin Jack, Cousin Jenny -- cowboy modern style -- cowboy of the Pecos -- cowboy terms applied to Indians -- cowboy terms borrowed from the Spanish -- Cowboy's Lament -- cowboy usages -- cow casualty -- cow chips -- cowpuncher -- cow superstitions -- Coyote -- cracker -- cranberries -- crazy as a sheepherder -- crazy quilts -- Creole funeral customs-coffin material -- crickets -- crookneck squash -- Cross my heart -- crosshaul -- crossing -- crossing little fingers -- croup -- crow -- crow-bar hole -- culture hero -- cup plates -- cures -- curfew -- cuspidor -- cut a swath -- cutting out -- D -- daddy-long-legs or straddle bug -- daisy folklore -- Dalton Gang -- damnyankee -- dandelion divination -- dander -- dangers on the Missouri River -- Daniel McGirth -- dark and bloody land -- deaconed off -- deacon's seat -- dead beat -- deadheads -- Dead Horse Chantey -- Deadman's Hand -- deadwood, to get the deadwood on you -- death terms of cowboys -- death warnings -- déchargé -- deer meat swamp style -- Deer Woman -- demon dancers -- Derby Hat (American style) -- devil in New England -- Devil's Island influence -- Diamond Horseshoe -- "Dick Smith" -- "dig for wood and climb for water" -- diggings -- dimples -- dingle -- dipping -- "dish turner" -- dive for the oyster -- divination practices -- "Divine Right Baer" -- Dixieland -- Dizzy Dean's English -- dobe walled -- do brown -- docey-do -- dock weed -- dogie -- dog's howls -- dogwood -- doo hicky -- door signs -- dory -- dowser -- "drive the river" -- droop-eyed calves -- drowning superstitions -- drums for church service -- dry gulch, to -- duck -- duck dance -- Dunker love feast observance -- Dutch courage -- Dutchman's breeches -- Dutch Tea Parties -- E -- "eager beaver" -- eagle. ; eagle myths of the Cherokee -- "early candle light" -- ear-puller or ear-swinger -- ears burn -- earthquakes -- Easter before Lent (Paques avant Careme) -- "easy boss" -- eat crow -- eat dog -- ecclesiastical bricks -- eclipse -- "economic royalists" -- egg superstitions -- Eileschpijjel tales or Eulenspiegel tales -- elbedritsche -- electric "fluid" -- elephant as a symbol -- Emancipation Proclamation Day, August 4 -- epilepsy -- escape tales -- Ethan Allen -- ethnocentric viewpoint -- eucalyptus trees of San Francisco -- evil eye -- eyebrow superstitions -- eyelash as means of predicting the future -- F -- Fair Play Boys -- falling stars -- false faces -- "false front" architecture -- family record -- Fasnacht or Shrove Tuesday -- "Fat boy" -- feather merchant -- Febold Feboldson -- fees for preachers -- fence cutter's wars -- feu follet (will of the wisps) -- field day -- fillee -- "finding the bean" -- fingernails -- fingers crossed -- Finglish -- "fining judges" -- Finnigan to Flanagan -- Finnish custom -- "fire-eater" -- fire engine panels -- fire-fighting companies' rivalries -- fireflies -- firemark -- fires in rooms -- "fire sticks" -- fire trumpets -- firing of three shots -- First Families of Virginia -- "First Gringo" -- first star seen -- First Ward Parties (Chicago) -- Fish House Punch -- five beans in the wheel -- flint and tinder box -- flint rocks dispose of a bear -- flip -- floating gin palace -- flock paper -- Florida lore -- Florida sunshine -- flower lore -- flying box car -- fofurraw -- footprints -- footstoves -- forgetfulness -- forty-miler -- forty-niner miner's laundry troubles -- Four hundred -- "Foxy-grandpop" -- "Freedom Road" -- "French Creeks" -- Frick Legends -- Friday superstitions -- frog superstitions -- frontier appetites -- full dress -- fuller -- funeral customs -- funeral procession. ; furrow, the longest in the world.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Paul Bunyan to Johnny Appleseed, Marjorie Tallman covers it all in an engaging voice sure to please readers of all ages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dictionary of American Folklore
• ISBN: 9781504055062; 1504055063
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954723603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II