Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library

Includes bibliographical references and index

Manabozho, Creator of the Earth -- Gluskap tested -- Songs of Elder Brother, the "Papago Christ" -- The three Nephites, Mormon immortals: A Nephite brings a spiritual message -- Pele, Goddess of the volcano, and the fisherman -- Davy Crocket as demigod -- A trickster tricked: Hare rides Coyote -- Br'er Rabbit and his tricks: Br'er Rabbit fools Br'er Buzzard -- No tracks coming back -- Fox and the dead horse -- Baby rabbits -- Toad loses his tail -- Another version -- Br'er Rabbit song -- Konsti Koponen, the eyeturner: Konsti cures a horse -- Konsti passes through a log -- Konsti and the high-toned Miss -- Konsti helps a poor farmer -- Old John tricks the master: Tom and the master -- Mejewedah, gifted in magic -- Giant Joe Call: Joe Call's sister -- Clay Allison, gunfighter: A duel in a ditch -- A dule called off -- Lamar Fontaine, Confederate sharpshooter -- Antoine Barada and the pile driver -- John Henry hammer songs: Moe Stanley -- John L. Sullivan and Jim Corbett -- Babe Ruth: the body behind the bat -- Charlie "Bird" Parker: The feats of Charlies Parker -- How "Bird" got his nickname -- The prophet of Pond River Bottoms -- Hiawatha founds the Iroquois Confederacy -- A drunken god and a pious king -- Benjamin Franklin's proverbial ethics -- A New York merchant's way to wealth: Honesty is the best policy -- But Lady Luck helps -- Preacher Dow raises the devil: Preacher Dow catches a thief -- Marie Leveau, Hoodoo Queen: A gambler's petition and a god's reply -- A Puerto Rican decima on the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The Purim Shpil of Abraham and Isaac -- James Bird, hero shot as a deserter: The ballad of James Bird -- Cherry Tree Joe, raftsman: Cherry Tree Joe McCreery -- Charlie Glass and the sheepherders -- The best straight-edge man in the world -- The tattoo lady of the Bowery -- Big Max -- Why students call Pedro -- Perry Martin's moonshine -- The character of Strap Buckner: Strap and the black bull -- Strap and the Indians -- Strap fights the devil -- The return of Strap Buckner -- Strap meets his match -- Judge Bean serves as coroner -- "Big Shot" Bill Greenfield, Adirondack Munchausen: Cold winter -- Swapping work -- Eel Olive's fall from grace -- Nick the fiddler -- The leather man: Who was the leather man? -- His itinerary -- His youth -- His death-and after -- "Coxey" Bivens lived in a cave -- Bone Mizell, Florida cowpuncher: Bone goes to the circus -- Bone and the holy people -- Bone sells an ox -- Bone buries a friend -- Bone and the public doorknob -- Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero: Francisco as folk hero -- Francisco as frontier strong man -- Francisco in the Portuguese-language press -- The Welsh wizard: The apple thieves -- Paying the innkeeper -- Recovering stolen property -- An absent-minded scholar -- Pat Casey who struck it rich: God is where you find it -- A man of affairs -- Zishe, the Yiddish Samson: The song of Zishe -- A poet turns the tables on the King of Bagdad -- Stratouhotdas, biggest thief that ever lived -- A thief outwits a thief -- Stratouhotdas and the blanket -- Stratouhotdas and the washtub -- Stratouhotdas plays the violin -- King Matt's Riddle -- Old world heroes in the New World: King Arthur's grave -- The wandering Jew in Louisiana: Le Juif errant -- The wandering Jew in the Utah desert -- Marshal Ney, Napoleonic hero in America -- An Ozark fiddler plays Napoleon's battle tunes: Dry and dusty -- Bonaparte's retreat -- A Finnish eyeturner in northern Michigan -- Frontiersmen and pioneers: The man who killed General Braddock -- The courtship of Daniel Boone: The last days of Daniel Boone -- Johnny Appleseed and the bewitched cow -- Hugh Glass fights a bear -- Scalping grizzlies -- Kit Carson shoots a bully -- Grandma Doctor Emma French -- Indians: Watkuese saves Lewis and Clark -- Black Hawk remembered -- The last day of Tecumseh's life: Tecumseh at the Naval Academy -- Tecumseh in bronze -- Tsali and the Cherokee removal -- The Army version -- A journalist's sket