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Tables of Contents for Sitting Up With the Dead
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
x
The Prologue
xiii
FIRST JOURNEY
Akbar's Tale
3
17
Tar Baby
9
11
Colonel Rod's Tale
20
14
The Mule Egg
27
7
Vickie's Tale
34
14
Rosehill's Tale
48
9
The Kudzu's Tale
57
13
Grandfather Creates Snake
62
8
Orville's Tale
70
22
Jack and the Varmints
80
12
David's Tale
92
17
Ross and Anna
98
11
SECOND JOURNEY
Veronica's Tale
109
19
A Polar Bear's Bar-Be-Cue
110
9
Taily Po
119
9
Kwame's Tale
128
11
The Story of the Girl and the Fish
132
7
Alice's Tale
139
19
Cornelia's Tale
158
20
The Plat-Eye
160
18
Fouchena's Tale
178
13
The Flying Africans
189
2
Minerva's Tale
191
9
Tom's Tale
200
15
The Story of Lavinia Fisher
205
10
THIRD JOURNEY
Ray's Tale
215
22
FOURTH JOURNEY
Ollie's Tale
237
11
Kathryn's Tale
248
18
The Grandfather Tales
254
12
David Joe's Tale
266
11
The Peddler Man
269
8
Karen's Tale
277
19
Rose and Charlie
289
7
The Tale of the Farmer's Smart Daughter
296
16
Oyo's Tale
312
6
Mitch and Carla's Tale
318
23
How My Grandma Was Marked
326
1
Wicked John
327
14
The Bell Witch's Tale
341
9
Annie's Tale
350
13
Shug
358
2
My First Experience with a Flush Commode
360
3
Angela's Tale
363
13
Rose Anne's Tale
376
24
The Song in the Mist
387
13
Granny Griffin's Tale
400
13
The Dead Man
401
12
Index of Stories/Storytellers
413