Product Description: Most of the essays among the twenty-nine making up this collection salute taletellers, furnishing demonstrations by way of tall tales and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of frontier preachers and hound dogs, and superstitions and folk medicine...read more

Product Description: Variety and richness are indeed found in this Publication by the Texas Folklore Society. The first folk type to appear in the book is the hunter, in Francis Abernethy’s account of the East Texas communal hunt, which he sees in relation to man’s ancient hunting habits...read more

Product Description: The title of this collection denotes a span from the horse-drawn vehicles with steel tires that had to be shrunk down occasionally, to the cars that accelerate to unbelievable speeds on a drag strip. Society members like to look back at old customs and beliefs but they are quite willing to take into account that urbanization and engineering do not destroy folklife but rather bring about new formations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Good tales are represented in this volume by Frank Dobie and by Riley Aiken, Roger Abrahams, and Kenneth Goldstein. Also included are E. Bagby Atwood who analyzes the variations of the cacophonous custom of the charivari or shivaree as it has been observed in different times and regions...read more

Product Description: This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society deals with what happens to folk beliefs and practices when a people exchange one way of life for another. Mexican lore and family lore are also well represented in this volume.