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MULES AND MEN -- Part 1. Folk 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 workinest 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 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 travelling 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 2. HOODOO -- Origin of Hoodoo -- Eulalia: ritual to get a man -- Turner and Marie Leveau -- Marie: 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 [includes Jack or John, woofing, testimony, John Henry, Long house, Blue baby, Georgia skin game] -- Appendix -- Negro songs with music -- John Henry -- East Coast blues -- Please don't drive me -- Cold rainy day -- Going to see my long-haired babe -- Can't you line it? -- There stands a blue bird -- Mule on de mount -- Let the deal go down -- Appendix -- Formulae of Hoodoo doctors -- Paraphernalia of conjure -- Prescriptions of root doctors --
TELL MY HORSE -- Part 1. Jamaica -- The rooster's nest -- Curry goat -- Hunting a wild hog -- Night song after death -- Women in the Caribbean -- Part 2. Politics and personalities of Haiti -- Rebirth of a nation -- The next hundred years -- The black Joan of Arc -- Death of Leconte -- Part 3. Voodoo in Haiti -- Voodoo and the voodoo gods -- The Isle of La Gonave -- Archahaie and what it means -- Zombies -- Sect rouge -- Parlay cheval ou (Tell my horse) -- Graveyard dirt and other poisons -- Doctor Reser -- God and the Pintards -- Songs of worship to voodoo gods: Maitresse Ersulie ; Férailke ; Rada ; Janvalo (Jean Valdo) -- Saint Jacques ; Petro ; Ibo ; Damballa ; Ogoun ; Salongo ; Loco ; Mambo Isan ; Dambala ; Agoë (Agoué te royo) ; Sobo ; Ogoun -- Miscellaneous songs: Sect rouge ; Chant beginning all rada ceremonies ; La mystérieuse méringue / A.L. Duroseau ; Etonnement, méringue caractéristique / A. Herandez ; Bonne humeur, méringue Haitïenne / Arthur L. Duroseau ; Olga, méringue par / Arthur Lyncíe Duroseau ; Chanson de Calicot ; La douceur --
DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD
My birthplace
My folks
I get born
The inside search
Figure and fancy
Wandering
Jacksonville and after
Back stage and the railroad
School again
Research
Books and things
My people! My people!
Two women in particular
Love
Religion
Looking things over
Appendix: My people! My people! ; Seeing the world as it is ; The inside light: being a salute to friendship ; Concert
SELECTED ARTICLES
The Eatonville anthology
How it feels to be colored me (from Negro: an anthology)
Characteristics of negro expression
Conversions and visions
Shouting
Mother Catherine
Uncle Monday
Spirituals and neo-spirituals
Works-in-progress for Florida Federal Writers' Project, "The Florida Negro, 1938"
Folklore and music
Negro mythical places
The Ocoee riot
The sanctified church
Art and such
Stories of conflict: Richard Wright's "Uncle Tom's Children"
The "pet negro" system
High John de Conquer
Negroes without self-pity
My most humiliating Jim Crow experience
The rise of the begging joints
Crazy for this democracy
What white publishers won't print
Court order can't make races mix
Chronology.
From the Book
Mules and men
Tell my horse
Dust tracks on a road
Selected articles.
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