Folklore, memoirs, and other writings

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 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 [includes Jack or John, woofing, testimony, John Henry, Long house, Blue baby, Georgia skin game] [Appendix] I. 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] II. Formulae of Hoodoo doctors [Appendix] III. Paraphernalia of conjure [Appendix] IV. 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 [Appendix] I. Songs of worship to voodoo gods : Maitresse Ersulie ; Féraille ; Rada ; Janvalo (Jean Valdo) Saint Jacques ; Petro ; Ibo ; Damballa ; Ogoun ; Salongo ; Loco ; Mambo Isan ; Dambala ; Agoë (Agoué te royo) ; Sobo ; Ogoun [Appendix] II. 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.