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Devil tales

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A framed collection of Southern folktales presented as an elder’s storytelling to a household audience. The individual tales mix supernatural lore, hoodoo practices, devilish bargains, shape-shifting animals, and sly trickery, often resolving through wit or poetic justice. The prose preserves regional vernacular and vivid domestic scenes, alternating humor, dread, and moral lesson without a single continuous narrative. Together the stories evoke the performative energy of oral tradition and offer a varied anthology of uncanny episodes rooted in communal memory and everyday life.

ILLUSTRATIONS

“HE HEAR ALL DE SECRETS ER DER CREEPIN’ THINGS” Frontispiece
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“‘’CASE DE HOODOO AM ER ’OMAN’” 8
“SHE FOLLOWED OLD CINDER CAT” 12
“THE CHARM WAS FOREVER BROKEN, AND THE COMELY HOODOO KNEW IT” 18
“‘PERZACKLY LACK OLE MARSE’” 30
“‘GO ON AND HAVE A GOOD TIME, MICAJAH’” 36
“HE COLLARED HIS ASTONISHED LITTLE NIGGER” 46
“UNDER THE TREES IN THE WOOD-LOT” 80
“HE DES FOLLER UV ’EM EVER NIGHT” 82
“HE HEAR MISSAR JONES’S SAMBO FIVE MILES AWAY” 84
“SHADRACH HE RIZ WID HE OWN COAT-TAILS” 86
“IN DE SHAPE UV ER BIG JACK-RABBIT” 88
“‘OH! THE HORROR OF THE THING’” 94
“‘BURN! BURN!’” 98
“AN’ CRECY WERE WID ’EM” 102
“‘I GWINE WARM YO’ BIMEBY’” 114
“‘DEY RETCH AN’ STRETCH TODES ONE ’NUTHER’” 116
UNC’ JAH AND THE DEVIL SNAKE 118
“UNC’ ’JAH AIN’T TALKIN’” 120
“AN’ SPLIT DE WIN’ DES ’HINE DE FLY” 122
“‘AN’ SHO’ BEAT DE GRASSHOPPER’” 124
“‘DEY FLEWED AN’ DEY FLEWED’” 126
“AN’ GIB ONE LAS’ AWFUL HOWL” 128
“HER HEART WAS NOT IN HER WORK” 136
“SHOULD SHE DO IT?” 142
“‘FLY, FLY,’ SHE WHISPERED” 148
“SHE CAME ON BAT’S WINGS” 150
“‘DE BUTTERFLIES DONE COME BACK’” 152