HE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE (Quarterly: Editor,

issued

Tby the American Folk-Lore Society, is designed for the collection and publication of the

folk-lore and mythology of the American Continent. The subscription price is three
dollars per annum.

The American Folk-Lore Society was organized January 4, 1888. The Society holds
annual meetings, at which reports are received and papers read. The yearly membership
fee is three dollars. Members are entitled to receive The Journal of American Folk-Lore.
Subscribers to the Journal, or other persons interested in the objects of the Society, are eligible
to membership, and are requested to address the Permanent Secretary to that end.
Authors alone are responsible for the contents of their papers.

Officers of the American Folk-Lore Society (1917).

President. Robert H. Lowie.

First Vice-President. -G. L. Kittredge.

Second Vice-President. J. Walter Fewkes.

Councillors. For three years: R. B. Dixon, E. Sapir, A. L. Kroeber.
For two years: Phillips Barry, C.-M. Barbeau, A. M. Espinosa. For one year:
B. Laufer, E. K. Putnam, Stith Thompson. Past Presidents: H. M. Belden,
John A. Lomax, Pliny Earle Goddard. Presidents of Local Branches: Charles
Peabody, A. M. Tozzer, E. C. Perrow, Miss Mary A. Owen, Haywood Parker,
Reed Smith, Clyde C. Glasscock, John M. Stone, John Harrington Cox.
Editor of Journal. - Franz Boas, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
Permanent Secretary. Charles Peabody, Cambridge, Mass.

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Assistant Secretary. A. V. Kidder, Cambridge, Mass.

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Treasurer. Alfred M. Tozzer, Peabody Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.

Auditing Committee. - Roland B. Dixon, A. V. Kidder.

Officers of Local and State Branches and Societies.

BOSTON. - President, Charles Peabody; First Vice-President, A. V. Kidder;
Second Vice-President, Helen Leah Reed; Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Courtney;
Treasurer, Samuel B. Dean.

CAMBRIDGE. President, A. M. Tozzer; Vice-President, Mrs. E. F. Williams;
Treasurer, Carleton E. Noyes; Secretary, Mrs. W. Scudder.

KENTUCKY. — President, E. C. Perrow; Vice-President, Mrs. Ewing Mar-
shall, Miss Alice A. Cassity; Secretary, D. L. Thomas; Treasurer, John F. Smith.
MISSOURI. President, Miss Mary A. Owen; Vice-Presidents, Miss Lucy R.
Laws, Mrs. Eva W. Case, Miss Jennie M. A. Jones, Mrs. Edward Schaaf;
Secretary, H. M. Belden; Treasurer, C. H. Williams; Directors, A. E. Bostwick,
Miss Jennie F. Chase, Leah R. C. Yoffie.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

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President, Haywood Parker; Secretary and Treasurer,

Secretary, George F. Will.

President, Reed Smith; Vice-President, Henry C.
Davis; Secretary and Treasurer, F. W. Cappelmann.
TENNESSEE. Secretary, Henry M. Wiltse.

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TEXAS. President, Dr. Clyde C. Glasscock; Vice-Presidents, Miss Junia
Osterhaut, Miss L. B. Harrison; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Stith Thompson.
VIRGINIA.-President, John M.Stone; Vice-President, Miss Martha M.Davis;
Secretary-Treasurer, Walter A. Montgomery; Archivist, C. Alphonso Smith.
WEST VIRGINIA. - President and General Editor, John Harrington Cox;
Vice-President, Robert Allen Armstrong; Secretary-Treasurer, Walter Barnes.

Entered as second-class matter, July 6, 1911, at the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXX.

ARTICLES.

Contes Populaires Canadiens (Seconde série) C.-Marius Barbeau

Facéties et Contes Canadiens

Oral Tradition and History

Tales from Guilford County, North Carolina

Notes on Folk-Lore of Guilford County,

North Carolina.

Tales from Maryland and Pennsylvania

Ring-Games from Georgia.

Folk-Tales collected at Miami, Fla.

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Victor Morin

141

Four Folk-Tales from Fortune Island, Baha-

mas.

Ten Folk-Tales from the Cape Verde Islands Elsie Clews Parsons

Surinam Folk-Tales.

Popular Notions pertaining to Primitive Stone

Artifacts in Surinam .

Bantu Tales . .

Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Amer-

ican Folk-Lore Society

Ballads and Songs

Notes on the "Shirburn Ballads"

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230

A. P. and T. E. Penard 239

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283

Paull Franklin Baum

378

Berthold Laufer -

415

James A. Teit

427

List of Abbreviations used in this Volume

List of Officers and Members of the American Folk-Lore Society

Index to Volume XXX

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Petitot

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American Anthropologist, New Series.

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural
History.

Baessler-Archiv, Supplement.

British Association for the Advancement of
Science, Reports.

Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
H. J. Bell, Obeah.

Bolte und Polívka, Anmerkungen zu den Kin-
der- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm.
Publications of the Carnegie Institution.
Contributions to North American Ethnology.
The Contemporary Review.

Columbia University Contributions to Anthro-
pology.

Folklore (London).

Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series.

Folk-Song Society Journal (London).

Geological Survey of Canada, Anthropological
Series.

J. C. Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and His
Sayings.

Nights with Uncle Remus.

· Uncle Remus and his Friends.

H. R. Schoolcraft, The Myth of Hiawatha.
Jacobs, English Fairy Tales.

E. Jacottet, The Treasury of Ba-Suto Lore.
Journal of American Folk-Lore.

Journal of the Anthropological Institute of
Great Britain and Ireland.

Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expe-
dition.

C. C. Jones, Negro Myths from the Georgia
Coast.

Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society.
. Anthropological Papers of the American Mu-
seum of Natural History.

Publications of the American Ethnological So-
ciety.

E. C. Parsons, Folk-Tales of Andros Island,
Bahamas.

E. Petitot, Traditions du Canada Nord-ouest.

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