Dictionary of American Folklore.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- A -- absentmindedness -- absquatulate -- Acadian customs -- Adam's Tavern (later known as Wadsworth's) -- Adirondack customs -- Adirondack guides -- Ah Quong's Inn -- albino animals -- algerines -- All quiet on the Potomac -- "All the Law West of the Pecos" -- alphabet recitation -- Al Smith -- alum -- ambulance chaser -- Amish customs -- animals in folklore -- anti-macassar -- Arkansas Traveler -- Army folklore terms -- asafetida -- Ascension Day -- aspen leaf -- as straight as Pearl Street -- Astor of Waldorf -- "avoiding" -- B -- Babbitt -- Babe, the Blue Ox -- Baby's first lock of hair -- baby removed from dead mother -- bachelor buttons -- backstone (attually back hearthstone) -- backward action -- bacon and . greens -- bad dress rehearsal-good opening -- badger -- badgers -- bad man -- Balaam's basket -- balance and swing -- ballast for fish -- Ball the Jack -- "balloon lines" -- Bals du Roi (Kings' Balls) -- Baltimore, gastronomic center of the world -- bandanna -- band wagon, to get on -- Bang-All -- banjo -- bank barns -- barber's cat -- barber shop mugs -- barnstormer -- barrel house -- barrel treatment for drunkenness -- barrenness -- Barricke Mariche -- Bartholomew baby -- basers -- Basin Street -- bathing beauties -- Battalion Day -- Battle-ax beliefs (Pennsylvania) -- bayberry candles -- Bayou State -- bear-hunting, Ozark style -- "bear traps" -- bearwalkers -- beats my time -- beaver -- bed-rock, to be down to -- bed superstitions -- bee -- Beecher's Bibles -- beeswax candles -- belaying-pin soup -- "Bell don't make bump" -- bells of Conestoga wagons -- Belsnickel -- Ben Delimus -- "best wore out" -- Bet-A-Million Gates -- betsy lamp -- bezoars -- bibliomancy -- Big Owl -- "Big Runaway" -- Big Sea Day -- Billy the Kid -- Binghamton's Origin -- bird in the house -- bird lore.

Birthday folklore -- birthday superstitions -- Biscaino, Don Pedro -- black birding -- "black cat" -- "black grains" -- Black Hawk -- "Black legs" -- "Black Robes" -- blood beliefs -- bloviating -- "Blow Gabriel Blow" -- blow the grampus -- blue-eyed boy -- Blue Hen's Chickens -- Blue Hill Hermit -- bluejay -- "Blue line" activities -- Blue-noses -- blues -- Blue-Tail Fly -- blutz-wagon -- Bodie, California -- "body masters" -- bonanza -- boneshaker -- bonnyclabber -- boogie-woogie -- bookmaking customs -- boomers -- boom rats -- "boom town" game -- boot, boot camp -- Boot Hill -- borderer -- Boston titles -- "boughten bread" -- bowling at pins -- box-cars -- Boxer Day -- brakeman on the railroads -- "brave man" -- bread dance -- bread superstitions -- break a mirror -- break broth -- "breast stones" -- Brer Rabbit -- brick making, colonial style -- bridal knots -- Bridal Veil Falls -- "broad horn" boat -- broken striper -- Bronx cheer -- Brother Jonathan -- bruder pleger (caretaker) -- Bruneau John of Idaho -- brunswick stew -- brush fires -- buckaroo -- bucking board -- "Buck Private" -- buckwheat cakes -- bull -- bulls and bears -- bull boat (Missouri style) -- Buller legends of Lake Superior -- "Bullet Barons" -- "bull jine" -- bull whacker -- bunk fatigue -- bunny meat (rabbit food) -- Bunyan's animals -- burgo -- bursting horns -- bury the hatchet -- Buster Brown -- butter-and-egg man -- butter-making -- butterfly beliefs among the Indians -- butterfly beliefs in other parts of the United States -- C -- cabin fever -- caboodle -- caboteurs -- cactus -- Cafe Society -- cahoots, to be in -- cakewalk -- calash -- calico queen -- California melon picking -- California sock -- calling the wind -- callout dances -- calumet -- Cambridge Common Exhibition -- camel express -- camphor superstitions -- can -- can openers -- canary superstitions.

Canal Street (Buffalo) -- cancellation of letters -- "Candle-maker" -- candlewood -- Cape Cod houses -- Cape Cod lore -- Cap Cod named -- capping a tale -- card playing superstitions -- Carnegie Legends -- Carver's Cave -- casket girls (filles a la casette) -- casket shortage -- cast down and cast off -- Castella Legend -- caterpillars -- cat superstitions -- catfish troubles -- Cattle Kate -- cat with wooden leg -- "caulk off" -- Cave-In-the-Rock, Kentucky -- cayuse -- chair rail -- chameleon -- chanson des voyageurs (chants of the woodsmen) -- chaparejos (chaparereras) -- chaparral fox -- charivari -- Charlestown (South Carolina) -- cherry-tree deer -- chew the fat -- Chinese funeral customs in Idaho -- Chinese in the early mining days -- chin music -- chin superstitions -- Chippewa's gain fire -- Chitlins or chitterlings -- cigar store Indians -- "Cindy" -- circular story -- cisterns -- Civil War greetings -- clean shirts for sea captains -- cloak and dagger merchant -- coal as fuel -- coarse materials known to the colonial South -- cob iron -- cockroach bosses -- codfish superstitions -- coffee pot sailor -- "coffin-notices" -- coin flipping -- cold brand or hair brand -- cold sores -- cold thunder -- "Colonel Colt's equalizer" -- colonial drinks -- "coloring in early America" -- color symbolism -- "Colt on Revolvers" -- Columbia, Pennsylvania -- Columbus circle or balloon tire -- comancheros -- comb superstitions -- come-all-ye -- "Come up and see me some time" -- compressed hay -- conches -- conestogas-"stogies" -- conjuring lodge -- conner -- contagious magic -- "cookem fry" -- cookie-pusher -- Coolidge humor as Vice-President -- coon skin of Davy Crockett -- coon, to go the whole coon -- Cooney-caboose -- coontie -- cooper -- coopers -- Cooperstown, New York -- Coos Bay -- copper captain -- corduroy roads -- corn -- corn freight.

Cornish customs -- "cotton boxes" -- counting-out games -- courtship limited in New England -- Cousin Jack, Cousin Jenny -- cowboy modern style -- cowboy of the Pecos -- cowboy terms applied to Indians -- cowboy terms borrowed from the Spanish -- Cowboy's Lament -- cowboy usages -- cow casualty -- cow chips -- cowpuncher -- cow superstitions -- Coyote -- cracker -- cranberries -- crazy as a sheepherder -- crazy quilts -- Creole funeral customs-coffin material -- crickets -- crookneck squash -- Cross my heart -- crosshaul -- crossing -- crossing little fingers -- croup -- crow -- crow-bar hole -- culture hero -- cup plates -- cures -- curfew -- cuspidor -- cut a swath -- cutting out -- D -- daddy-long-legs or straddle bug -- daisy folklore -- Dalton Gang -- damnyankee -- dandelion divination -- dander -- dangers on the Missouri River -- Daniel McGirth -- dark and bloody land -- deaconed off -- deacon's seat -- dead beat -- deadheads -- Dead Horse Chantey -- Deadman's Hand -- deadwood, to get the deadwood on you -- death terms of cowboys -- death warnings -- déchargé -- deer meat swamp style -- Deer Woman -- demon dancers -- Derby Hat (American style) -- devil in New England -- Devil's Island influence -- Diamond Horseshoe -- "Dick Smith" -- "dig for wood and climb for water" -- diggings -- dimples -- dingle -- dipping -- "dish turner" -- dive for the oyster -- divination practices -- "Divine Right Baer" -- Dixieland -- Dizzy Dean's English -- dobe walled -- do brown -- docey-do -- dock weed -- dogie -- dog's howls -- dogwood -- doo hicky -- door signs -- dory -- dowser -- "drive the river" -- droop-eyed calves -- drowning superstitions -- drums for church service -- dry gulch, to -- duck -- duck dance -- Dunker love feast observance -- Dutch courage -- Dutchman's breeches -- Dutch Tea Parties -- E -- "eager beaver" -- eagle.

eagle myths of the Cherokee -- "early candle light" -- ear-puller or ear-swinger -- ears burn -- earthquakes -- Easter before Lent (Paques avant Careme) -- "easy boss" -- eat crow -- eat dog -- ecclesiastical bricks -- eclipse -- "economic royalists" -- egg superstitions -- Eileschpijjel tales or Eulenspiegel tales -- elbedritsche -- electric "fluid" -- elephant as a symbol -- Emancipation Proclamation Day, August 4 -- epilepsy -- escape tales -- Ethan Allen -- ethnocentric viewpoint -- eucalyptus trees of San Francisco -- evil eye -- eyebrow superstitions -- eyelash as means of predicting the future -- F -- Fair Play Boys -- falling stars -- false faces -- "false front" architecture -- family record -- Fasnacht or Shrove Tuesday -- "Fat boy" -- feather merchant -- Febold Feboldson -- fees for preachers -- fence cutter's wars -- feu follet (will of the wisps) -- field day -- fillee -- "finding the bean" -- fingernails -- fingers crossed -- Finglish -- "fining judges" -- Finnigan to Flanagan -- Finnish custom -- "fire-eater" -- fire engine panels -- fire-fighting companies' rivalries -- fireflies -- firemark -- fires in rooms -- "fire sticks" -- fire trumpets -- firing of three shots -- First Families of Virginia -- "First Gringo" -- first star seen -- First Ward Parties (Chicago) -- Fish House Punch -- five beans in the wheel -- flint and tinder box -- flint rocks dispose of a bear -- flip -- floating gin palace -- flock paper -- Florida lore -- Florida sunshine -- flower lore -- flying box car -- fofurraw -- footprints -- footstoves -- forgetfulness -- forty-miler -- forty-niner miner's laundry troubles -- Four hundred -- "Foxy-grandpop" -- "Freedom Road" -- "French Creeks" -- Frick Legends -- Friday superstitions -- frog superstitions -- frontier appetites -- full dress -- fuller -- funeral customs -- funeral procession.

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