American Negro Folktales magic sets

magic sets

tracing slang terms and expressions from the end of the nineteenth century to the present

is a feast for the reader with a grasp of algebra and some calculus

for the 1970 edition

American Negro Folktales magic setsA preacher battles a bear, a mother returns from the dead, and a clever servant conducts a Big Feet Contest in this rich anthology of African American folklore. Scores of humorous and harrowing stories, collected during the mid twentieth century, tell of talking animals, ghosts, devils, and saints. The first part of the book provides a setting for the fables, in which folklorist Richard M. Dorson discusses their origins and the artistry of