Research Catalog

Title

Folklore from contemporary Jamaicans / by Daryl C. Dance ; drawings by Murry N. DePillars.

Author

Dance, Daryl Cumber

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1985.

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Details

Description

xxv, 229 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Folklore > Jamaica
• Folklore
• Jamaica > Social life and customs

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 217-219.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• ETIOLOGICAL TALES -- Jet black A -- Jet black B -- How we get black -- Dat's pe-e-r-fick A -- Dat's pe-e-r-fick B -- Why the black man is black -- The creation of the negro -- Why the black man has to work hard -- Mango and orange -- Congo and Nago -- Sorrel -- Why Satan did not learn to blow breath -- ANANSESEM -- Cork di pot, man A -- Cork di pot, man B -- Bird Cherry Island A -- Bird Cherry Island B -- Bird Cherry Island C -- Bird Cherry Island D -- Why dawg hate puss -- The bone sweet A -- The bone sweet B -- The bone sweet C -- Bredda Anancy and Bredda John Crow -- Anancy and Monkey -- The tar banana tree -- Mi waan' bulla -- Anancy is riding-horse -- Tacuma wins the girl -- Gashany Bull -- Escaping soldiers -- Dis yah one ya bal' -- Town mouse and country mouse -- Dem caan' call me Rat -- The ugliest man mus' wash up -- DUPPY TALES -- Tumpa-tail mare -- Baad Sarah -- Don't go out late time of night -- A sign from Daddy -- Tiger work pon rolling calf --^
• If I ketch 'im I kill 'im -- I am not going to play tonight -- Duppy incident -- Dis man look like a duppy man -- Young gal will carry you in a trouble -- Too kind, too cruel -- Right now, right now -- Pretty, pretty moon a fell down pon me -- The automobile-e-e-e a come -- It come out, it go in -- Tilli-lip -- Never you sleep in dead Solomon room -- The incident at Albion House -- I am di ghost of Crickety-Crocket -- BIG BOY TALES -- E-G-G A -- E-G-G B -- E-G-G C -- E-G-G D --Big Boy spells ink -- Miami A -- Miami B -- Miami C -- Miami D -- Miami E -- Jesus Christ A -- Jesus Christ B -- Jesus Christ C -- Jesus Christ D -- Half idiot A -- Half idiot B -- Come on, baby, let's go-go-go-o! -- Jesus going into Jerusalem -- Gorilla eat banana -- What yu want, Big Boy -- Red ackee A -- Red ackee B -- Red ackee C -- Frying -- A nuh so Mama sleep -- Mummy never sleep in clothes -- The boys are throwing stones A -- The boys are throwing stones B -- The new bell --^
• Gi' mi di ting pon di table -- A duck fi a fuck -- Ah worm is tickling me -- Can I drive my little Mini? A -- Can I drive my little Mini? B -- Can I drive my little Mini? C -- Keep on buying missa mac candle -- It have teeth -- When you a fuck my moder... -- Big Boy bruk him behin' -- TALES ABOUT RELIGION -- Flying to Heaven A -- Flying to Heaven B -- Every member to carry his own spirit -- Now we will gather at the river A -- Now we will gather at the river B -- Rum will kill out all the worms -- Corner, Parson A -- Corner, Parson B -- Abraham, Abraham, what is in your bosom? -- Shoo! -- Puss -- Give me even one -- Put pepper in the pot -- You tink a mi one a sinner? A -- You tink a mi one a sinner? B -- You tink a mi one a sinner? C -- Take me as a yam -- I' holey holey, but I' clean -- I feel -- Hallelujah -- A fly is on your horse' conclusion -- You have any? -- God, Heaven post office -- God rob me --
• TALES ABOUT RASTAFARIANS -- Hearken unto my voice A -- Hearken unto my voice B -- Love Selassie-I -- Blessing chalice -- I feel like I want run -- Rastafari drop from sky A -- Rastafari drop from sky B -- Rastafari drop from sky C -- Rastafari drop from sky D -- Lucky me never step inna it -- Rape, rape, rape -- They shall stumble and fell -- Lawd Jesus Chris'! -- Born fi heng, caan' drown -- MISCELLANEOUS TALES -- Nine-finger Jack -- Do good, do good -- Running to catch the tree -- How black people got meat during slavery -- Live log -- The groom is a snake A -- The groom is a snake B -- If you nuh gi mi one (H)ackee -- Tek me, nuh tek me -- Big head, big belly, and little foot A -- Big head, big belly, and little foot B -- Big head, big belly, and little foot C -- Big head, big belly, and little foot D -- Cutthroat, chawfine, and suckblood -- Get di brush, get di paint -- Green grass grows pon me grave -- Granny cow -- Ronnie the Bear -- Him go a foreign -- Man from Mocho --^
• You must have cried a lot -- Hijack -- Nutty buddy -- A pipe rooster, please -- The way to Pigley Park? -- Mr. Cashew Cat -- You are full lawyer -- We are trying our best -- Imitating monkey -- Gun grows -- Piss-pot -- One, two, three, and a span A -- One, two, three, and a span B -- Mix-up -- The escape -- New bottom -- One pound, one shoe -- Hu-hu-huor fader A -- Hu-hu-huor fader B -- Mi never 'peak nor 'poke -- Mi nuh see di 'poon -- The blind man and the deaf man A -- The blind man and the deaf man B -- Wake up and sing -- Di man a hold mi -- The moon? The sun? -- Every parish have dem own moon -- Ole bar tick -- Me never even know him sick -- Di same puss, sah -- If me dead, me dead -- Anyting you ask God for -- My grace me a say -- It's the plumber -- OOOOOO -- Awhoo dat! -- Duck calls names -- Jamaican apples -- It's raining -- Steal -- The Lord is my shepherd -- Kuffum, kuffum -- Him out fi bed you -- The cow should blow his horn -- You goin' dead wid you foot skin up --^
• 3-F -- Marie has a crack -- Me want what you give me last time -- Water on wood -- What is rass? -- That's against the law -- When I lif', you grab A -- When I lif', you grab B -- Tack soup -- Fader Forsythe A -- Fader Forsythe B -- Fader Forsythe C -- Fader Forsythe D -- Fader Forsythe E -- Fader Forsythe F -- The wheel just stop -- Him stop the plane -- Ease me up -- Row, row, row your boat -- Lef the water heng up -- RIDDLES -- RHYMES -- SONGS -- CHILDREN'S GAMES.

ISBN

0870494368 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^84005061^

OCLC

• 10506853
• SCSB-10223929

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library