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Native American And Native Hawaiian Narratives | |
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The Origin of Stories | |
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Stealing Fire | |
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Djogeon (Dwarf-Man) and His Uncle | |
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Blood-Clot-Boy | |
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Stone Boy | |
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The Boy Who Become a Mink | |
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Coyote's Eyes | |
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Coyote and the Shadow People | |
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Fox and Kingfisher | |
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The Buffalo-Wife | |
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The Woman Who Married the Merman | |
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A Tale of the Sky World | |
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The Siege of Courthouse Rock | |
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The First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans (Thatkak ila:ci:fo:kok) | |
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A Story of Kamehameha I | |
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Ke-lii-kuku | |
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Pele and Kahawali | |
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Folktales From A Number of Traditions | |
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Animal Tales | |
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The Donkey, the Dog, the Cat and the Rooster | |
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Lion, Fox, and Cowboy | |
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Mr. Snake and the Farmer | |
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Jack and His Fellows: Classic Hero Tales | |
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The Long-Tailed Shirt | |
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Old Bluebeard | |
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Jack and His Dogs | |
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The Big Old Giant | |
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Jack and the Fox | |
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The Boy That Never Seen a Fraid | |
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Brave, Resourceful, and Kindly Women | |
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The King and the Poor Man's Daughter | |
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The Pretended Corpse | |
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Old Foster | |
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The Milliman's Daughter | |
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Mutsmag | |
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Lady Feather flight | |
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How Toodie Fixed Old Grunt | |
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The Green Bird | |
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Rose | |
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The Talking Eggs | |
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The Grateful Dead and Other Magic Helpers | |
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The Girl That Weren't Ashamed to Own Her Kin | |
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Old Shake-Your-Head | |
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One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes | |
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The Boat That Went on Land and Sea | |
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Magical Powers and Magical Objects | |
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He Heard Animals Talking | |
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Nor'west Wind and Jack | |
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The King's Well | |
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Lucky Accidents | |
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Old Stiff Dick | |
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Jack and the King's Girl | |
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The Old Man and the Coon | |
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The Three Shining Stones | |
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She Always Answered No | |
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The Three Questions | |
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Under Gravel Do I Travel | |
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The Bride of the Evil One | |
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A Bark Peeler's Life | |
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Tricks and Tricksters | |
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Aunt Kate's Goomer-Dust | |
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�All of these Are Mine� | |
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The Tar Baby | |
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Bouqui and Lapin: The Farm | |
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The Hare and the Porcupine | |
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The One-Eyed Giant | |
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The Three Littles Pigs | |
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Pat O'Grady | |
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Roclore and the King | |
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The Tricky Yankee | |
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How Brer Rabbit Brought Dust Out of the Rock | |
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John, His Boss-Man, and the Catfish | |
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When Brer Frog Gave a Big Dinner | |
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Mr. Deer's My Riding Horse | |
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Abe and Dinah | |
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Husbands and Wives | |
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The Stubborn Wife | |
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Singing Her Warning | |
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Rover in College (Rover au College) | |
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Priests, Preachers, and Other Professions | |
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The Stolen Hog | |
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What Did Paul Say? | |
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Too Strong a Penance | |
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The Man Who Stole Lumber | |
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A Death Bed Scene | |
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Bunkin | |
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The Smart Indian Lawyer | |
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Closest to the Fire | |
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Fools and Mishaps | |
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Mule Eggs | |
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The Hot Dogs (Les hot Dogs) | |
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Big Fraid and Little Fraid | |
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She's Got One Spoiled Tit | |
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In Run My Hand Up Missis' Dress | |
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The Irishman and the Moon | |
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The Girl Who Died of Fright | |
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Talking Turtle | |
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�Trick� Tales and Parodies | |
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The Lonely Old Man | |
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Johnny-Cake | |
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Fido Is Dead (Fido est mort) | |
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Between a Mountain Lion and a Grizzly | |
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Three Wishes | |
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The Toadfrog | |
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Lies and Other Tall Tales | |
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Carried by Buzzards | |
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Paul Bunyan's Cooking Arrangements | |
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Paul Bunyan's Big Cow | |
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The Peach Tree Deer | |
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Thawing Words | |
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Leading Blind Hogs | |
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The Two Big Hunters | |
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The Stretching Harness | |
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Liars' Contest: Speed | |
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The Snake, the Frog and the Liquor | |
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A Fish Story | |
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A Night in the Jungle | |
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�Jeez, the Mosquitoes Was Thick.� | |
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Turnip and Kettle | |
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�You Take Off Ten Pounds� | |
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Some Other Humorous Tales | |
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The Yank Reunion | |
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What Madeline Done | |
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The Coon-Monkey | |
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Saying Grace | |
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The Longest Tale | |
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Religious Tales | |
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The Family That Had Lost the Little Girl (La famille qu'avait Perdu la Petite fille) | |
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The Horse with Wings | |
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The Story of Arigo | |
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Legends From A Number Of Traditions | |
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Ghosts and Wraiths | |
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The Haunted House | |
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Ghost of a Mistreated Slave | |
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The White Lady of the Van Rensselaer Mansion | |
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A Haunted Mine | |
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The Ghost Miner | |
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The Negro in the Concrete | |
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The Gate That Would Not Stay Shut | |
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Conflict Over a Boundary Line | |
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Ghost Haunts Her Re-Married Husband | |
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The Dead Lover's Light | |
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A Handshake | |
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Ghost Appears in a Photo | |
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A Miser's Ghost | |
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Wyoming's Headless Horseman | |
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A Ghost Dog | |
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Reforming a Thief | |
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Guarding His Own Body | |
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The Ghost Priest | |
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The Good Ghost at Wheeler | |
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The Blue Light | |
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A Ghostly Baby Snatcher | |
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Two Manifestations of La Llorona | |
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La Llorona | |
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker | |
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The Vanishing Bride | |
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The Vanishing Nun | |
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The Traveling Spirit | |
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Ghost Cannot Pass Flowing Water | |
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Draga's return | |
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Calling Maryo Worth | |
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Man Sees Own Ghost | |
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Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing | |
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The Six Witches | |
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Witches and a Blessing | |
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Casting Spells Over Animals | |
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A Bewitched Gun | |
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The Brothers Who Married Witches | |
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Broom-Charm | |
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Out of Her Skin | |
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The Butter Witch | |
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A Wizard Protests Being Overcharged | |
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Death of a Witch Cat | |
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Uncovering a Witch | |
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Bewitched Cattle | |
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Rival Hoodoo �Doctors� | |
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Punishing a Wealthy Planter | |
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Bewitching a Dog | |
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Curing Rheumatism | |
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Blowing the Fire Out of a Burned Arm | |
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Omens and Other Strange Events | |
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The Death-Watch Tick | |
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A Death's Head | |
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A Dream of Surf and Waves | |
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A Voice Calling | |
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The Dancing Light | |
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The Robed Horseman | |
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Person Born with Caul Has Second Sight | |
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Prenatal Fear Causes Birthmark | |
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The Fairy Birth | |
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The Playing Player Piano | |
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The Blood Stained Bricks | |
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A Lost Stagecoach | |
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Phantom Steamboat on Devil's Lake | |
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Going to the Dance Hall | |
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Finding a Lost Watch | |
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Saved by Lightning | |
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The Face on the Windowpane | |
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The Face on the Tombstone | |
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The Chain on the Tombstone | |
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The Bride and the Egg Yolk | |
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The Holyoke Dam | |
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The Strange Death of a Slave Master | |
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Cursed Clock | |
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A Loup Garou's Debt | |
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An Oyster-Culling Loup Garou | |
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The Devil | |
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The Devil Appears as a Black Dog | |
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The Devil Plays Cards | |
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The Devil and the card Players | |
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The Devil in Eisenhower's Saloon | |
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Raising the Devil | |
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The Devil at the Discotheque | |
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A Devil Child | |
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Sold Body and Soul | |
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Divine Retribution and Other Miracles | |
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Sunday Mountain | |
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Card-Playing on Sunday | |
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Retribution | |
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Flowers from the Virgin Mary | |
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Sweet Hour of Prayer | |
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Great Merit | |
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The Solider | |
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Storyo of the Holy Child | |
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Statue of St. Joseph Returns | |
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Saint Joseph's Day | |
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The Staircase at Loretto | |
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How the Wandering Jew Appeared to an Early Settler in Nevada | |
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Three Mysterious Laborers Aid One of Joseph Smithy's Protectors | |
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Appearance of the Nephite | |
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Bread for a Missionary | |
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Missionaries Escape a Mob | |
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Native Americans | |
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The Legend of Lover's Leap | |
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The Legend of Turkey Hill | |
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The Annihilation of the Pascagoula | |
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The Women Who Married Indians | |
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Wakulla Pocahontas | |
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Daniel Boone's Tricks on Indians | |
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One of the Last of the Mohawks | |
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Flok Heroes, Local Characters, and Wild People | |
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Johnny Appleseed | |
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Molly Mulhollun, the Cabin Builder | |
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John Henry | |
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Ben Lilly, Strongman of Morehouse Parish | |
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Billy Hazard | |
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Ziba King | |
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Grorge Magoon Escapes the Wardens | |
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The Wild Girl of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands | |
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Panthers, Snakes, and Other Beasts | |
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The Panther | |
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Dick the Slave Boy and Wolves | |
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The Poisoned Tree | |
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Milk Snakes | |
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The coach-Whip Snake | |
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A Lake Serpent | |
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The Beast of Busco | |
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Hidden Treasure and Lost Mines | |
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Bluebeard's Treasure | |
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Buried Treasure of Jean Lafitte | |
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Phantom Pigs Guard a Treasure | |
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Frightened Away from Captain Kidd's Treasure | |
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Larsen's Vein | |
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The Treasure of Cacapan | |
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The Metate Rocks of Loma Linda | |
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The Lost Red Blanket Mine | |
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The Lost Haystack Mine | |
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Slavery and the Civil War | |
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The Escape of John Bennett | |
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The Tombstone | |
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James Bowser, Emancipation Hero | |
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A Confederate Spy | |
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The Buss | |
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Blood on the Floor | |
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Morgan's Raiders | |
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Yankee Ghosts in New Orleans | |
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A Confederate Solider | |
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What Caddy Did When She Heard That Lee Had Surrendered | |
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Outlaws, Crime, and Criminals | |
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Jesse James Spent the Night Near Terre Haute | |
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Butch Cassidy's Escape | |
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Eugene Bunch, the Robin Hood of Southeast Louisiana | |
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How Railroad Bill Chased Himself to His Girl's House | |
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Lewis the Robber Helps a Poor Widow | |
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Winn Parish Night Riders | |
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Robbery and Murder of a Traveler | |
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Al Capone's Hideout Near Edwardsport | |
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Dillinger's Long Penis in the Smithsonian | |
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Belle Gunness | |
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Drinks on the House | |
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Frankie Silver | |
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Horrors | |
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The Cannibal Couple | |
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The Faithful Dog | |
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Death from Fright | |
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The Yankee Soldiers and the Baby | |
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The Chirrionera | |
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Place Names and Other Origins | |
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How Mother Leather Coat Mountain Was Named | |
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How the Rock Got Its Name | |
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The Legend of the Dogwood Tree | |
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The Jack o' Lantern | |
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Prairie Lights (La Luz del Llano) | |
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Origin of Packenham's Rum (The Corpse In the Cask) | |
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Occupational Legends | |
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Death in the Mines | |
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Buying More Wind | |
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The Last Train Robbery | |
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A. Philip Randolph's Blank Check | |
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The Resident's Stamp | |
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Sleeping on the Night Shift | |
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�Urban� Legends | |
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The Hook | |
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The Cadaver Arm | |
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Snakes in the Fun House Tunnel | |
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The Roommate's Death | |
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The Bouffant Hair-Do | |
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The Fried Rat | |
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The Choking Doberman | |
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The Boy Friend's Death | |
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The Killer in the Back Seat | |
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The Crazy Baglady Who Ate Her Hair | |
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The Runaway Grandmother | |
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The Concrete-Filled Cadillac | |
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John F. Kennedy Is Still Alive in Dallas | |
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Story Credits | |
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Index of Tale Types and Motifs | |