The Journal of American Folklore

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American Folk-lore Society, 1914

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Strana 303 - There stands a jolly miller all alone by himself, Day by day he is gaining in his wealth, One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack, The ladies step forward and the gents step back.
Strana 455 - Ill. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC University of
Strana 313 - i. London bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London bridge is falling down, My fair lady.
Strana 435 - the right of electing its sachem and chiefs; the right of deposing its sachem and chiefs; the obligation not to marry in the gens; mutual rights of inheritance of the property of deceased members; reciprocal obligations of help, defence, and redress of injuries; the right of bestowing names upon its members; the right of
Strana 357 - primitive man interpreted the activities of nature to be the ceaseless struggle of one orenda against another, uttered and directed by the beings or bodies of his environment, the former possessing orenda, and the latter, life, mind, and orenda, only by virtue of his own imputation.
Strana 42 - A trickster induces a number of birds to dance around him, keeping their eyes closed. The penalty for opening the eyes is that they will become red. As the birds dance, the trickster wrings their necks one by one. One of the dancers grows suspicious, opens his eyes, and gives the alarm. The rest escape.
Strana 335 - As I went up the apple-tree All the apples fell on me. Bake in pudding, bake in pie; Did you ever tell a lie? You know you didn't, you know you did; You broke your mother's tea-pot lid; She blew you in, she blew you out; She blew you in the sauer-kraut.
Strana 412 - has called attention to the development of this feature among the Shoshoni and Nootka. The literary style is most readily recognized in the poetic parts of tales; but, since these fall mostly outside of the purely narrative part of the stories, I do not enter into this subject. We may contrast the' simplicity of style of the Northwest
Strana 455 - Mo. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Pa. University of South Carolina Columbia, SC University of South Dakota, Vermilion, SD University of
Strana 359 - manito” are often used in the sense of “sacred.” If a Winnebago tells you that a certain thing is waka (ie, sacred), further inquiry will elicit from him the information that it is so because it belongs to a spirit, was given by a spirit, or was in some way connected with a spirit. It is possible