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Excerpt from FolkLore From Adams County IllinoisA person With rheumatism Will have rheumatic pains before a rain When I was a boy a German teacher in a Quincy parochial school asked where do you get the rains A boy got up and said from grandmas bones because every time grand mas bones ache it rainsAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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This book was originally published prior to 1923 and represents a reproduction of an important historical work maintaining the same format as the original work While some publishers have opted to apply OCR optical character recognition technology to the process we believe this leads to suboptimal results frequent typographical errors strange characters and confusing formatting and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself Despite these occasional imperfections we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher
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This historic book may have numerous typos missing text images or index Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher 1891 Not illustrated Excerpt CHAPTER XIX STORIES The native Stories or Folktales which follow are all of them with the exception of the first translated from the manuscripts written for me by natives of the various islands in which the stories are told The first example was written down by the Rev A Penny at Florida in the native language as he heard the story told The translation is as accurate and literal in each case as I could make it the detailed prolixity of a native narrative is very characteristic and it is possible that with the varying quality of the storytelling of the individual writers there may appear something also of the different narrative style of the eastern and western groups of these islands of Melanesia The value of truly native stories is beyond all question they exhibit native life in the particular details which come in the course of the narrative they are full of the conceptions which the native people entertain about the world around them they show the native mind active in fancy and imagination and they form a rich store of subjects for comparison with the folktales of other parts of the world To the question how far those who tell and those who hear these stories believe them to be true it is hard to give an answer To some extent they are believed and to a great extent they are treated as flights of fancy A storyteller warming to his subject and with all that he relates pictured in his mind very likely believes it all as he tells the tale a story will be quoted to explain or confirm some statement and would have little effect if not brought forth as true a story because it has always been told and heard is not open to much doubt or criticism But it may be safely said that to the natives a story is not a piece of histor
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If youre wondering how Golden Rod Ragwort and Devils Bit got their names how Dandelion can be used to treat liver disorders or how Horseradish staves off scurvy look no further than A Modern Herbal This modern reboot of the medieval herbal improves upon its predecessors with meticulously researched scientific support and pages of recorded folklore about each entry Encyclopedic in coverage A Modern Herbal covers every herb grass shrub fungus and tree you can think of from to Abscess Root to Zedoary Building on the traditional herbal which combines folklore about the plants their medicinal properties anatomies and botanical classification Mrs Greive has compiled a oneofakind encyclopedia of more than 800 varieties of plants The entries are neatly and thoroughly filled with seemingly boundless amounts of information on cultivation methods chemical constituents dosages preparations of extracts tinctures and foods as well as cosmetic properties and beautiful detailed illustrations Also included are hundreds of recipes for lotions ointments sauces wines vinegars brandies and prescriptions for tonics and liniments to combat just about any ailment There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious studentregarded simply as a history of flowers it adds to the joys of the country BE Todd Spectator Readers interested in related titles from M Grieve will also want to see A Modern Herbal The Complete Edition ISBN 9781626542235 A Modern Herbal Volume 2 IZ and Indexes ISBN 9781626542211
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923 This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process We believe this work is culturally important and despite the imperfections have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process and hope you enjoy this valuable book
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Cherokee historian genealogist and physician Emmet Starr was born December 12 1870 in Adair County Oklahoma the former Going Snake district Cherokee Nation Indian Territory He was one of five children born to mixedblood Cherokees Walter Adair and Ruth A Thornton Starr Emmet Starr grew up on a farm at Claremore in present Rogers County Oklahoma and attended Cherokee public schools He graduated from the Cherokee Male Seminary at Tahlequah in 1888 and from the Barnes Medical College at St Louis Missouri in 1891 He never married He began collecting Cherokee documents in the early 1890s Starr practiced medicine for five years before dedicating himself to the study of Cherokee history His book notablyHistory of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore was first Published in 1922 His Enhanced amp Expanded 1985 Special Edition with added 100 page Index Hoffman Printing became the desired tool for genealogist looking into Cherokee heritage the latter remains prized by Cherokee historians and genealogists This is that enhanced edition by the original printer amp publisher Hoffman Printing with enhanced pictures and copy
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Chapters includeThe folk and their culture the formative concepts and the beginnings of culture Ernst S Dick Aspects of Alsatian folk identity in contemporary Alsatian dialect literature Marguerite Hessini Beyond the pale frontier folk in the southern Ozarks George E Lankford High art folk art and other social distinctions canons genealogy and the construction of aesthetics Gary Shapiro Word and image in American folk art Willem Volkersz Belief and practice in medieval folk medicine Jerry Stannard Heracles between two worlds the Heracles of folktale Oliver Phillips Persistent themes of mice and badgers in Japanese culture Fumiko Y Yamamoto and Akira Y Yamamoto Our Nestor complex nostalgia for the Old West Ronald Miriani Prolegomena to a study of opera and the folk James E Seaver The Clachan housing settlement pattern in north west Ireland J William Carswell The great tradition and the study of popular religion philosophy and method James F Skyrms
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Cherokee historian genealogist and physician Emmet Starr was born December 12 1870 in Adair County Oklahoma the former Going Snake district Cherokee Nation Indian Territory He was one of five children born to mixedblood Cherokees Walter Adair and Ruth A Thornton Starr Emmet Starr grew up on a farm at Claremore in present Rogers County Oklahoma and attended Cherokee public schools He graduated from the Cherokee Male Seminary at Tahlequah in 1888 and from the Barnes Medical College at St Louis Missouri in 1891 He never married He began collecting Cherokee documents in the early 1890s Starr practiced medicine for five years before dedicating himself to the study of Cherokee history His book notablyHistory of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore was first Published in 1922 His Enhanced amp Expanded 1985 Special Edition with added 100 page Index Hoffman Printing became the desired tool for genealogist looking into Cherokee heritage the latter remains prized by Cherokee historians and genealogists This is that enhanced edition by the original printer amp publisher Hoffman Printing with enhanced pictures and copy
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The stories in this book are reprinted from Volumes IV and V of The Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folklore published by the Bernice P Bishop Museum in 1917 1918 and 1919 They include some of the bestloved Hawaiian stories and the collection is probably the most important work on a traditional subject ever published in the Hawaiian language 85x11 297 pp introduction in English texts of the stories in Hawaiian with English on facing pages
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