Ozark Superstitions vJzark Superstitions VANCE RANDOLPH COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 1947 TO THE MEMORY OF G. STANLEY HALL
Preface For obvious reasons it is not practicable to credit every
item in this collection to the individual from whom it was
obtained, as I have done in Ozark Folksongs and some of my other
books. But for the sake of the record, I set down here the names of
certain persons who have directly furthered my investigations.
Among these must be listed Mrs. Anna Bacon, Galena, Mo. Dr. Charles
Hillman Brough, Little Rock, Ark. Miss Nancy Clemens, Springfield,
Mo. Dr. George E. Hastings, Fayetteville, Ark. Mr. Charles S.
Hiatt, Cassville, Mo. Mrs. Dorn Higgins, Sulphur Springs, Ark. Mr.
Earl Keithley, Day, Mo. Mr. Lewis Kelley, Cyclone, Mo. Mr. Maurice
Lamberson, Bentonville, Ark. Mr. Cass Little, Anderson, Mo. Mr.
Ernest Long, Joplin, Mo. Mrs. May Kennedy McCord, Springfield, Mo.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey, Mincy, Mo. Mrs. Mabel E. Mueller,
Holla, Mo. Mrs. Geraldine Parker, St. Louis, Mo. Miss Rubey Poyner,
Southwest City, Mo. Mr. Otto Ernest Rayburn, Eureka Springs, Ark.
Dr. Oakley St. John, Pine ville, Mo. Mr. Clyde Sharp, Pack, Mo. Mr.
Elbert Short, Crane, Mo. Mrs. Isabel Spradley, Van Buren, Ark. Mr.
Fred Starr, Greenland, Ark. Mrs. Olga Trail, Farmington, Ark. Mrs.
Ruth H. Tyler, Neosho, Mo. Mr. John Turner White, Jefferson City,
Mo. Mrs. Marie Wilbur, Pineville, Mo. and Dr. J. H. Young, Galena,
Mo. I wish to acknowledge my indebt edness to these people, but
they are in no way responsible for my interpretation of the
material, nor for the general character of the book. of the
preliminary studies upon which this volume is d were printed as
early as 1927, in theJournal of American viii PREFACE Folklore. My
books The Ozarks and Ozark Mountain Folks, published by the
Vanguard Press in 1931 and 1932, contained accounts of backwoods
folk belief. Many supernatural narra tives, and some notes on water
witching, first appeared in Ozark Ghost Stories and Tall Tales from
the Ozarks, published and copyrighted by E. Haldeman-Julius, of
Girard, Kansas. Several yarns about witchcraft were printed in
Folk-Say, a regional annual edited by B. A. Botkin and brought out
by the University of Oklahoma Press other related items first saw
the light in the quarterly University Review, published at the Uni
versity of Kansas Citj I am grateful to the owners of these
copyrights for permission to reprint the material here. V. R.
Galena, Missouri June 10, 1946 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2.
WEATHER SIGNS 10 3. CROPS AND LIVESTOCK 34 4. HOUSEHOLD
SUPERSTITIONS 53 5. WATER WITCHES 82 6. MOUNTAIN MEDICINE 92 7. THE
POWER DOCTORS 121 8. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 162 9. PREGNANCY AND
CHILDBIRTH 192 10. GHOST STORIES 211 11. ANIMALS AND PLANTS 240 12.
OZARK WITCHCRAFT 264 13. DEATH AND BURIAL 801 14. MISCELLANEOUS
ITEMS 328 BIBLIOGRAPHY 343 INDEX 353 Ozark Superstitions
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