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Storytellers : folktales & legends from the South / edited by John A. Burrison.

Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©1991.

vii, 392 pages ; 23 cm

A collection of over 250 authentic folktales that reflect the oral tradition of the South, selected from more than twenty years of recorded interviews conducted in the lower Southeast by folklore students.

Tales -- Southern States.

Legends -- Southern States.

Storytelling -- Southern States.

Folklore -- Southern States.

Burrison, John A., 1942-

"Brown thrasher books."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-381) and indexes.

Introduction -- Four storytellers of Cedartown, west George / Betsy Ostrander and Kay Long -- Ruth Casey, Emily Ellis, Reverend James H. Mull, W.R. Jordan -- Joke session by deer hunters in middle Georgia / Nan Gilmer Long -- Joel Crane, Chuck Fitzgerald, Woodrow Turner -- Two west Tennessee family legends across three generations / Nancy Phillips -- William T. Phillips, Jesse T. Phillips, Robert T. Phillips -- Lloyd Arneach : Cherokee Indian myths and legends / Edwina Roland -- Lee Drake : Afro-American tales / Judith J. Nelson -- Lem Griffis : Okefenokee swamp yarns / Kay L. Cothran -- "Ordinary" folktales -- Animal and human tricksters -- Jests : Numskulls : Tall tales : Religion : Marriage : Down on the farm -- Instructive tales -- Anecdotes -- Legends : Supernatural : Historical -- Notes.

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