عنوان

Mules and men /

0061350176

9780061350177

b763590

Mules and men /

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Zora Neale Hurston ; with a preface by Franz Boas ; a foreword by Arnold Rampersad ; an afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias.

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.

New York :

Harper Perennial,

2008.

xxiii, 309, 32 pages :

illustrations, music ;

21 cm.

Harper Perennial modern classics

Includes P. S. insights, interviews & more.

Originally published: J.B. Lippincott, ©1935.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302).

Part 2. Hoodoo. Origin of hoodoo -- Eulalia: ritual to get a man -- Turner and Marie Leveau -- Marie Leveau: confounding an enemy -- Marie Leveau: putting on curse -- Turner: Initiation ceremony -- Turner: routine to keep a husband true -- Anatol Pierre -- Ritual: initiation ceremony -- Ritual: to make a death -- Ritual: to swell with a brick -- Father Watson -- Ritual: initiation ceremony -- Ritual: to punish -- Ritual: to get a person out of the house -- Ritual: to keep a person down -- Ritual: getting the black cat bone -- Dr. Duke -- Ritual: to help a person in jail -- Ritual: to silence opposing witnesses -- Ritual: to uncross -- RItual: to send away -- Dr. Jenkins -- Concerning the dead -- Conjure stories -- Kitty Brown -- Ritual: ceremonial dance to put away a man -- Ritual: to make love stronger -- Ritual: to bring a lover back -- Ritual: to rule the man you love -- Glossary -- Appendix. I. Negro songs with music ; II. Formulae of hoodoo doctors ; III. Paraphernalia of conjure ; IV. Prescriptions of root doctors -- Afterword - Selected bibliography -- Chronology.

Preface -- Forward -- Introduction -- Part 1. Fold tales. John and the frog -- Witness of the Johnstown Flood in heaven -- How the brother was called to preach -- How the preacher made them bow down -- Pa Henry's prayer -- How the church came to be split up -- Why negroes are black -- Why women always take advantage of men -- Sue, Sal and that pretty Johnson gal -- The quickest trick -- How to write a letter -- A fast horse -- "Ah'll beatcher makin' money" -- The "workinist pill you ever seen " -- How Jack beat the devil -- "John Henry" -- Ole Massa and John who wanted to go to heaven -- Massa and the bear -- Why the sister in black works the hardest -- "De reason niggers is working so hard" -- Deer hunting story -- Big talk -- The first colored man in Massa's house -- What smelled worse -- The fortune teller -- How the negroes got their freedom -- The turtle-watch -- "From pine to pine Mr. Pinkney" -- "God an' de devil in de cemetery" -- Praying for rain -- Kill the white folks -- "Member youse a nigger" -- "You think I'm gointer pay you but I ain't" -- Why the mocking bird is away on Friday -- Man and the catfish -- How the snake got poison -- How the woodpecker nearly drowned the whole world -- How the possum lost the hair off his tail -- How the 'gator got his mouth -- How Brer 'Gator got his tongue worn out -- How the 'gator got black -- How Brer Dog lost his beautiful voice -- What the rabbit learned -- The goat that flagged a train -- Shooting up hill -- Tall hunting story -- The hawk and the buzzard -- Why they always use rawhide on a mule -- Why we have gophers -- How god made butterflies -- How the cat got nine lives -- The son who went to college -- Why the waves have whitecaps -- How the lion met the king of the world -- Sermon by traveling preacher -- Card game -- "Ella Wall" -- "Ah'm gointer loose dis right-hand shackle from 'round my leg" -- Strength test between Jack and the devil -- Why the porpoise has his tail on crossways -- Why the dog hates the cat -- How the devil coined a word -- How Jack O'Lanterns came to be -- Why the east coast has mosquitoes and storms -- How a loving couple was parted -- "All these are mine" -- How the squinch owl came to be -- The talking mule -- High walker and bloody bones -- Fight at pine mill.

Part 1. Folk tales -- Part 2. Hoodoo -- Glossary -- Appendix: I. Negro songs with music ; II. Formulae of Hoodoo doctors ; III. Paraphernalia of conjure ; IV. : Prescriptions of root doctors -- Chronology -- In search of Zora Neale Hurston / Alice Walker -- Wrestling with Mules and men : the story behind the book.

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"Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Returning to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to gather material, Zora Neale Hurston recalls "a hilarious night with a pinch of everything social mixed with the storytelling." Set intimately within the social context of black life, the stories, "big old lies," songs, Vodou customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of African Americans." --

African Americans-- Florida, Folklore.

African Americans-- Florida, Music.

African Americans-- Florida.

African Americans-- Louisiana, Folklore.

African Americans-- Louisiana, Music.

African Americans-- Louisiana.

Tales-- Florida.

Tales-- Louisiana.

Vodou-- Louisiana.

African Americans.

Tales.

Vodou.

Florida.

Louisiana.

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Hurston, Zora Neale

Boas, Franz,1858-1942

Covarrubias, Miguel,1904-1957

Gates, Henry Louis,Jr.

Rampersad, Arnold

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