Wisconsin FolkloreJames P. Leary Univ of Wisconsin Press, 15. 1. 1999 - Počet stran: 560 Highly entertaining and richly informative, Wisconsin Folklore offers the first comprehensive collection of writings about the surprisingly varied folklore of Wisconsin. Beginning with a historical introduction to Wisconsin's folklore and concluding with an up-to-date bibliography, this anthology offers more than fifty annotated and illustrated entries in five sections: "Terms and Talk," "Storytelling," "Music, Song, and Dance," "Beliefs and Customs," and "Material Traditions and Folklife." |
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... original German , and I have since heard it sung by Wisconsinites in Walloon French and Norwegian . I considered this diversity normal until I went to school outside the state and was told that the names of my schoolmates back home were ...
... original proprietor of the Buckhorn Tavern in Rice Lake and an accomplished taxidermist , festooned his walls with actual stuffed animals , as well as taxidermic hoaxes like the shovel - tailed snowsnake and the fur herring . The former ...
... original inhabitant . Exhausted , the " old Indian " drops in his tracks , exclaiming in pidgin dialect , " I can no mo ' walk " ( see my Midwestern Folk Humor [ Little Rock : August House , 1991 ] , 64 , 233 ) . The name Sheboygan is ...
... original name of cross - stick obtains in their language . I think the theory that the name Manitowoc either refers to a totem pole erected by a clan of the Medicine Lodge , or that it is derived from a grove made sacred by certain ...
... original village , and is located on the Fond du Lac - Milwaukee Trail , now Highway 41. It is said that a certain jolly tavern keeper greeted every guest with a lusty " Schenk ' ir ' . " This is Bavarian for " Schenke irn , " fill the ...
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Part Two Storytelling | 111 |
Part Three Music Song and Dance | 189 |
Part Four Beliefs and Customs | 305 |
Part Five Material Traditions and Folklife | 387 |
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A Selected List | 522 |
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