Record #:

16339

Author(s):

Hedges, James S.

Abstract:

The folk belief, \"If you have a mole on your neck, you will be hanged,\" was heard around the turn of the century and before, when hanging was a common form of execution. Charles Waddell Chesnutt uses this belief from the folklore of southern African Americans as an important tool to develop the theme of social strangulation in The Marrow of Tradition, first published in 1901.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 1983, p43-44 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Superstition; Folk beliefs; Folklore--Literature; Folklore--African Americans; Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932

Record #:

35042

Author(s):

Carpenter, James M.

Abstract:

The author collected stories while he was travelling in the United Kingdom; they are both versions of the “magpie story,” which leads to a man learning of more and more bad luck that has befallen him.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Sept 1954, p16-17 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklore--Literature

Record #:

35183

Author(s):

Howell, Almonte C.

Abstract:

The telling of three Korean folktales: “The Yangpan and the Barley,” “The Best Liar, and the Yangpan’s Daughter,” and “The Peddler and the Tiger.”

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962, p26-29 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklore; Folklore--Literature