A collection of folktales, from the West Indies as well as the United States.
A lot of beast tales, including some recognizable variants on fairy tale types-- some fairy tales, not too many. Heavy on trickster tales. Some distinctly bawdy.
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Afro-American Folktales
A collection of folktales, from the West Indies as well as the United States.
A lot of beast tales, including some recognizable variants on fairy tale types-- some fairy tales, not too many. Heavy on trickster tales. Some distinctly bawdy.
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dealing with the witch
ding-dong the witch is dead -- The first one at any rate. I comment on her body first, but then I elaborate on the breaking of her spells.…
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the things you miss
The heroine has brought another character back to life. (Ah, the luck you (sometimes) have in fairy tales!) Then it struck me that later in the…
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connections
The muse is often so busy chasing after bright ideas that she misses the obvious. So, if the story is rife with ghosts, AND the brothers of the…
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