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Tables of Contents for Tire Shrinker to Dragster
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
The Tire Shrinker
3
8
E. J. RISSMANN
T-Bones and Cheater Slicks: The Folksay of The Drag Strip
11
26
HERMES NYE
Silver Ingots in East Texas
37
14
JAMES M. DAY
Hell-Fire and Folk Humor on the Frontier
51
12
BILL F. FOWLER
The Morality Play on Horseback: Tom Mix
63
10
MODY C. BOATRIGHT
Some Examples of Early Irish Storytelling
73
30
RUTH P. M. LEHMANN
An Gadai Dubh: The Black Thief
103
14
MYLES DILLON
Folklore and the Finnish Sauna
117
8
EDWIN W. GASTON, JR.
Speech Mas' on Tobago
125
20
ROGER D. ABRAHAMS
Mock Bidding in Jamaica
145
10
DAVID DECAMP
The Penny Dreadful in the Man's Magazine
155
8
JAMES WARD LEE
Special Powers in Folk Cures and Remedies
163
12
JOHN Q. ANDERSON
The Precarious Potato
175
12
J. T. MCCULLEN, JR.
An Arabic Romance in Austin, Texas
187
16
JAMES T. BRATCHER
Folkways & Mores at the University of Texas in the 1930's
203
6
ANNE PHILLIPS
J. Frank Dobie-the Teacher
209
6
ARLIE RAY MCTEE
With Dobie Forty Years Ago
215
4
GUS K. EIFLER
Eliade's Contribution to the Study of Myth
219
24
WILSON M. HUDSON
Contributors
243
4
Index
247