Record #:

16367

Author(s):

Clark, Joseph D.

Abstract:

North Carolina, like most parts of the nation, has inherited much medical folklore from British, European, and other sources. Among the most tenacious early folk medical practices to live on into the 20th-century is the primitive custom of pulling patients through or passing them through holes in trees, stones, or in the earth, or moving them, or causing them to walk, crawl, or creep through a variety of natural or man-made apertures for the curing of disease.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Feb 1975, p11-15, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Medicine--Folklore

Record #:

16368

Author(s):

Lornell, Christopher

Abstract:

Before the blues in its rigid form, fiddles and banjos were oft-used instruments among African American musicians in Piedmont North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Feb 1975, p26-32 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Banjoists--African Americans; African Americans--Musicians--Piedmont

Record #:

35702

Author(s):

Johnson, F. Roy

Abstract:

This is a collection of short, humorous stories from the eastern counties of North Carolina dating back to the colonial period.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Feb 1975, p3-10 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Humorous stories

Record #:

35703

Author(s):

Short, Douglas D.

Abstract:

From a fragment of a song that had been previously collected, the author compares it to several Scottish folk songs.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Feb 1975, p16-20, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk music; Folk songs

Record #:

35704

Author(s):

Fisher, Douglas

Abstract:

North of Elizabeth City lies a stretch of land that does not allow anything to grow. Said to be haunted, a couple of teenagers in the late 1960s drove out there and were chased in their car by a monster that came out of the nearby river.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Feb 1975, p23-25 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ghosts--Bath; Legends; Folk tales--North Carolina

Record #:

35705

Author(s):

West, John Foster

Abstract:

A poem about a Confederate soldier who was shot for deserting.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Feb 1975, p32 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Poetry