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Black folktales.

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An edition of Black folktales (1969)

Black folktales.

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Twelve tales of African and Afro-American origin include "How God Made the Butterflies," "The Girl With the Large Eyes," "Stagolee," and "People Who Could Fly."

Publish Date
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
159

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Previews available in: English

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Cover of: Black Folktales
Black Folktales
October 1999, Bt Bound
Library Binding in English
Cover of: Black folktales
Black folktales
1992, Grove Press
in English - 1st Evergreen ed.
Cover of: Black folktales
Black folktales
1976, Schöningh
in English
Cover of: Black folktales.
Black folktales.
1970, Grove Press
in English
Cover of: Black folktales.
Black folktales.
1969, R. W. Baron
in English

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Table of Contents

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{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Why apes look like people.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Why men have to work.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'How the snake got his rattles.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The girl with the large eyes.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The son of Kim-ana-u-eze and the daughter of the sun and moon.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': "Jack and the devil's daughter."}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'High John the Conqueror.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Stagolee.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': "The old man who wouldn't take advice."}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'People who could fly.'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Keep on stepping.'}

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
An Evergreen black cat book,, B-262
Genre
Folklore.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.2/0967
Library of Congress
PZ8.1.L434 Bl3, PZ8.1.L434 B13, PS3562.E853 B53 1970

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 159 p.
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5316464M
Internet Archive
blackfolktales0000unse
LCCN
72139259
Library Thing
1143232

First Sentence

"WELL, the Lord had just finished making the world, and he sat back in his big ol' rocking chair to look it over."

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