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Americana
[8 TEXTS]
// Key Texts
// General Folklore
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
by Charles M. Skinner · 1896
A treasure-trove of American folklore, including stories from all regions.
// African-American
Drums and Shadows
by Mary Granger · 1940
Coastal Georgia folklore from the 1930s and connections to African spiritual practices.
// Pennsylvania Folklore
This part of the site has grown organically rather than by plan, and a small number of texts about Pennsylvania have coalesced here, for no particular reason.
Pow-wows; or Long Lost Friend
by by George Hohman · 1820
A small book of folk-magic and healing by a early nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Dutch practicioner of 'Pow-wow'.
