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16345
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A particular area often acquires s somewhat macabre and mysterious character following a violent death. Such is the case with a spot in Ashe County, known locally as the Devil's Stairs. Not one, but two violent deaths are responsible for this sinister atmosphere. Although the motifs of legends about this place have generally remained the same over six decades, other details have changed quite noticeably. The economic and cultural development of Ashe County has had a close effect on the evolution of legends about the Devil's Stairs.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 26 Issue 3, Nov 1978,
p149-156
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16346
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A wealth of folk material is stored in Bibles, not only family tree records that on occasion suffice for official documents, but also the treasured tidbits that one tucks inside a Bible because they had a special significance. From pressed flowers, bookmarks, and quilts patches, to pictures and locks of hair, Bibles present a treasure chest of folk wisdom.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 26 Issue 3, Nov 1978,
p168-170
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16347
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Grayden and M. C. Paul were widely known for their teaching, storytelling, songs, books, and contributions to the interpretation of North Carolina's coastal history and folklore. The object of their work was to preserve folklore and folklife for future generations--to collect and study the lore, customs, and crafts handed down by those who lived on the shores of Carteret County for more than 250 years. They are also noted for their collecting and explaining North Carolina sea lore.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 26 Issue 3, Nov 1978,
p174-175
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16348
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A recurring theme in the study of traditional music has long been the idea that it provides to some degree an index to a culture. Bastin discusses this theme when viewing black music in North Carolina and traces African origins and cultural changes through instruments, songs, melodies, and genres.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 1, May 1979,
p3-19, f
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16349
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Most of what the average American knows about tobacco comes either from cigarette company advertising or from the Federal Government. But among the small, rural tobacco farmers in North Carolina, and among other North Carolina folk in general, there is tobacco lore which has persisted since settlers were introduced to the herb by the Native Americans. The most obvious example is in the area of herbal remedies--tobacco medicine. This article presents a brief summary of the history of tobacco as an herbal medicine, the contemporary uses of tobacco as a folk cure, and comments on the nature of current tobacco medicine in eastern North Carolina.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 1, May 1979,
p26-31
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16350
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Starting with the pots themselves, Zug attempts a history of North Carolina folk pottery, focusing on its European ancestry, various designs, and contemporary equivalents.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 2, Nov 1979,
p34-55, f
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16351
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Although many believe that nothing materially survived from Afro-American antebellum society, Barfield argues that not only free Blacks but also slaves produced a large amount of domestic tools and furnishings during the antebellum period. They also acquired and made pottery, utensils, glassware, Bibles, photographs, and other trinkets.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 2, Nov 1979,
p61-66, f
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16352
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Several folk cures were discovered at the North Carolina Division of Archives and History among the private papers of John Ashworth of Buncombe County. They include cures for dropsy, scald head, and cancer.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 2, Nov 1979,
p67-68
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16353
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When Erskine Caldwell published his first full-length novel in 1932, he was soon launched as one of the South's most widely read novelists and storytellers. He reached his peak in the late 1930s and 40s, declining after World War II. Now, he almost totally neglected by students of American literature. In the 1940s William Faulkner ranked Caldwell, along with Thomas Wolfe, among the greatest 20th-century American novelists, and was considered for the Nobel Prize for literature. Studded throughout his stories and non-fiction is the recurring theme of folklore, most learned from the African Americans and farm hands he work with as a youth.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 3, Dec 1979,
p80-87
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16354
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The importance of fried fatback in the diet of Southern African Americans and poor whites has long been recognized, but a Carolina colloquialism which describes it as Texas Chicken, seems to have escaped the notice of lexicographers, folklorists, and dialect scholars. The North Carolina phrase is an example of the ethnophaulism or ethnic slur that figures prominently in the folk speech of many regions of the United States. Study of such phrases not only sheds light on the foodways of a people, but also reveals latent attitudes toward outsiders.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 3, Dec 1979,
p88-92
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16355
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Bascom Lamar Lunsford was called the \"Minstrel of the Appalachians.\" He performed, interpreted, and preserved the ballads, songs, string music, dances, and tales of this region at a time when they were growing less popular, and in doing so, helped bring them back into favor.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 1, May 1977,
p6-14
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16356
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Since 1960, F. Roy Johnson, author, editor, and publisher, has become a one-man industry mining veins of history and folklore in one of the first-settled regions of North Carolina. Working out of his Johnson Publishing Company office in Murfreesboro, Johnson saw an opportunity and began to record and preserve the long-neglected resources of northeastern North Carolina.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 1, May 1977,
p31
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16357
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This listing is a supplement to Professor Clark's Madstones in North Carolina (presented in North Carolina Folklore Journal March 1976, Vol. 24:1), an exhaustive study of the curious natural stones and stone-like products of the stomachs and gall bladders of animals used in folk medicine.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 1, May 1977,
p33-35
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16358
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The English, Scotch-Irish, Germans, and others who settled the Appalachian highlands adapted their basic knowledge of cookery to foods available in their new environment. This resulted in unique utensils, recipes, and customs for the Appalachian region.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 1, May 1977,
p36-44
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16359
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A common form of folk tales in eastern Perquimans, a county located near the coast in northeastern North Carolina, is that of \"tokens of death.\" They are tales and statements of belief concerning both natural and supernatural phenomena which were considered to have been omens, or tokens, of various deaths. These tales are intimately related to the history of Perquimans County and to the course of its economic and cultural development.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 2, Nov 1977,
p47-60
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