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This collection assembles short folktales and tall tales drawn from the coastal rice- and swamp-region oral tradition, rendered in local vernacular speech. The pieces range from animal trickster episodes—featuring a clever rabbit, alligator, wolf, turkey, and other creatures—to human-centered anecdotes about conjuring, superstition, plantation life, and humorous misadventures. Arranged as many brief numbered stories, the volume preserves regional expressions, rhythm, and humor while alternating fables, jokes, and supernatural accounts. Recurrent themes include cunning over brute strength, community memory, survival in marshland settings, and the interplay of practical wit and folkloric belief.

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Title: Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular

Author: Jr. Charles C. Jones

Release date: July 29, 2025 [eBook #76586]

Language: English

Original publication: Columbia: The State Company, 1925

Credits: Carol Brown, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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NEGRO MYTHS

FROM

THE GEORGIA COAST

TOLD IN THE VERNACULAR

BY
CHARLES C. JONES, JR., LL. D.

COLUMBIA, S. C.
THE STATE COMPANY
1925