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Table of Contents:

• Early Texas Indian songs and tales / Edwin W. Gaston, Jr.
• Religious beliefs of the Tejas or Hasanias Indians / Adina de Zavala
• The legneds of the Tigua / Thomas A. Green, Jr.
• Myths of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians / Howard N. Martin
• The Spanish of the moral / Francis Edward Abernethy
• Jambalaya / Jo Lyday
• La reunion / Ernestine Porcher Sewell
• Cajun Lapland / Gordon Baxter
• Vaquero: genesis of the Texas cowboy / William D. Wittliff and Joe B. Frantz
• Charro Jiro Afamado Arnulfo Castillo
• Scratches on the bedpost: vestiges of the lechuza / Ann Carpenter
• Violeta and the owls / Alonzo M. Perales
• Mal ojo / John O. West
• Don Jose and Don Pedrito / H.C. Arbuckle, III
• Life and leisure at Lucky Ridge / W. Silas Vance
• Tales from Juneteeth / J. Mason Brewer
• Country Black / Lorece P. Williams
• Waco Jive / Alfreda Iglehart
• Folk anecdote survives in Black fiction / James W. Byrd
• Customs among the German descendants of Gillespie County (in 1923) / Julia Estill

• The Old World antededent of the Fredericksburg Easter fires / Terry G. Jordan
• Green flags over Texas / Martha Emmons
• Scottish Texans and the Highland games / Harry Gordon
• Footprints of wooden shoes / Robert J. Duncan
• Community celebrations in Danevang / Susan Lucas and Sara Clark
• O ty Polshi! / Ann Carpenter
• Panna Maria and Pluznica: a study in comparative folk culture / T. Lindsay Baker
• Czech lore and customs / W. Phil Hewitt
• The Norse of Bosque County / Sadie J. Hoel
• Frank Bean / Palmer H. Olsen
• Greek-American life styles / Kit Van Cleave
• Magic and ritual among Italian fishermen on the Gulf Coast / Patrick B. Mullen
• The Slavonian stave makers of the Big Thicket / A.R. (Dolph) Fillingim
• Ya America! Ya Beledee! / James P. McGuire
• Lebanese song style / Dan Beaty
• Folklore of the Wends / George R. Nielson
• Jewish folkways / Larry Laufman
• Un-organizations: the family associations of the Chinese / Thomas M. Woodell
• The Kishi colony / Gwendolyn Wingate
• Filipino beliefs and customs / Jim Harris
• Le Rom And'o Teksas / Ian F. Hancock.

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Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Texas Folklore Society

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Folklore of Texan cultures (1st ed.; Austin [Tex.] : Encino Press, 1974 — LCCN 75306248; OCLC Number 1274011)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 38

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Social life and customs

Minorities — Texas

Folklore

Manners and customs

Minorities

Texas

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 366 pages) : illustrations, music.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.38 1974eb

OCLC Numbers:

1055259616
643657679 [Invalid]