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Genre/Form: | Children's nonfiction Folklore |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Raw head, bloody bones. New York : Scribner's ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1991 (OCoLC)607819834 |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary E Lyons |
ISBN: | 0069419337 9780069419333 0684193337 9780684193335 |
OCLC Number: | 23355961 |
Description: | 88 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Gullah goblins. The hag (South Carolina Sea Islands) -- The sea serpent (South Carolina Sea Islands) -- Plat-eye (South Carolina Sea Islands) -- Dead Aaron (Charleston, South Carolina). Ghosts. The mermaid (Michigan) -- The ghost and the watermelon (South Carolina Sea Islands) -- Duppy ghost (Jamaica). Monsters. Bloody bones (Florida) -- The night doctor (Edisto Island, South Carolina) -- The big worm (Bahamas) -- The three dogs (Andros Island, Bahamas). Superhumans. Raw Head, devil, and the barefoot woman (Florida) -- Big Sixteen (South Carolina Sea Islands) -- Uncle Monday (Florida) -- Little Bald-Headed (Cape Verde Islands). |
Responsibility: | selected by Mary E. Lyons. |
Abstract:
Fifteen black and African-American tales of the supernatural from various states and several Caribbean countries. Includes commentary on black folklore in the New World.
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- African Americans -- Folklore.
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- Black people -- Caribbean Area -- Folklore.
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- Black people -- Folklore.
- Supernatural -- Folklore.
- Folklore.
- Noirs américains -- Folklore.
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- Contes -- Caraïbes (Région)
- African Americans.
- Black people.
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- United States.
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