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T for Texas A State Full of Folklore edited by Francis Edward Abernethy |
"This miscellany is a pretty good representative of the people in the Society and the kinds of folklore they are presently interested in. I was especially pleased to get papers on family reminiscences. Mody Boatright's study of the family anecdote as folklore made us realize what a wealth of material most of us have at hand. And these recollections of family tales and traditions are just as much folklore as records of the Trobriand Islanders."
—Francis Edward Abernethy, from the Preface
Volume XLIV of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a valuable chronological and bibliographical listing of Texas Folklore Society Publications. Other contributions include lore of the armadillo, Texas country schoolteachers; legal lore from the courthouse; persimmon beer; classic honky tonks; Mexican lore on how to "have, to hold, or free oneself of a lover"; Pecos Bill; the vampire; peyote ceremonialism; animal metaphors; Texas prison folklore; oil field jokes; piecing patches and quilting, among others.
T for Texas
+ ISBN 1-57441-103-9 paper $21.95s
Folklore #44. 277 pp. Index.
Publication Date: 2000.
