Black Magic Bear: Tales of the Were (Grizzly Cove Book 16)

✍ Scribed by Bianca D'Arc

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 144 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B088R2PX3W

✦ Synopsis

Jamaican alphabet game -- One bright summer morning -- Some ballads from the Bahamas: The sinking of the Pytoria ; The burning of Curry Camp ; Cecil lost in the storm -- African-derived religious motifs in Jamaics -- Kumino Bailo song -- The Ras Tafarai movement in Jamaica -- About the Maroons of Jamaica: Quadrille and Polka in Accompong ; Two tales from Accompong ; Fowl and Cockroach ; Horse and Turtle. -- Some Trinidadian healing remedies -- Song of a household slave in Mexico -- The black Caribs of British Honduras: As they were seen in the year 1700 ; The black Caribs today ; A black Carib tale of the constellations ; Black Carib rituals ; The Amuiadahani rite ; The Cugu rite ; The Dogo rite ; Ceremonies, songs and dances ; Possession by ancestral spirits ; Some black Carib proverbs. -- Surinam: coast people and bush Negroes: On the capture and transport of slaves ; On their languages, music and customs ; On the condition of slavery ; A Surinam Obeahman ; A free Negro's retort ; On some rebel chiefs and their villages ; Musical instruments and dances. -- Djuka song from the Surinam bush -- Some proverbs of the Saramacca Bush-Negroes of Surinam -- Lobi Singi from Paramaribo.;Calls of the Haitian street vendors -- Some Haitian proverbs -- Some Haitian riddles -- Negro song poetry in Puerto Rico: When they start the fire ; There are many Negroes here ; When the white man plays the drum ; The black Amelia ; When a Negro goes to dance ; A black man stole a chicken. -- Four tales from Guadeloupe: Woy, who knows? ; Why people do not live again after death ; Oh, misery! ; Rabbit seeks wisdom. -- Two old slave songs from Carriacou -- The Bamboula dance, myth and reality -- Preacher tales in the Caribbean: The responsive congregation ; The parson's beard ; Whatsoever in thy bosom ; The hymn ; Pack of cards ; The parson's hog ; Come in or stay out ; My name first. -- West Indian Calypso: Small island ; Bamboo dance ; Subway train ; Dorothy, one morning ; My donkey want water ; Matilda ; So them bad minded ; Stickman ; All day, all night, Merriam. -- Some tales with African themes from the English-speaking islands: The three companions ; Tar Baby: eavesdropper: without scratching ; Magic flight ; The things that talked. -- Tales of cuckolds and rakes: Man from God ; Frightened sweetheart ; Husband in the bag ; Tom Bell ; Charge the engineer. -- Other tales from the English-speaking islands: Back in the same hole ; Fishing on Sunday ; She sends for her husband ; The cruel friend ; Only one mouthful.;Recollections of Old Master and John: Old Boss, John, and the mule ; Old Boss and George ; Old Master and okra ; Old Master and the bear ; Cussing out Old Master ; John calls on the Lord ; John saves Old Master's children ; Conversation about a slave ; John steals a pig and a sheep ; Baby in the crib ; The yearling ; Old Marster eats crow ; John praying ; The mojo ; The single ball ; The champion ; Old Master and John go hunting ; John's watch ; The ducks get the cotton ; John sharecrops for Old Boss ; John in jail ; The horsefly ; John and the blacksnake. -- Plantation proverbs -- Justice, injustice and ghosts in the swamps of the Congaree: Judge Foolbird ; The settin' up ; The little old man on the gray mule ; The lake of the dead ; Murder vs. liquor ; Old Dictodemus ; Old man Rogan ; The yellow crane ; Ruint. -- Churches, preachers, and deacons: Devil in church ; Preacher and the Devil ; What the preacher's talking about ; The bear fight ; Human weakness ; The card game ; John and the bear ; Go down below ; Balaam's ass ; Fattening the calf. -- Testing wits: Buh Rabbit, Buh Fox, and other creatures: Brer Coon gets his meat ; Brer Rabbt in the well ; Terrapin's pot of sense ; Buh Rabbit's 'gator fry ; Buh Buzzard and salvation ; Rail fence ; The magic hoe ; Between two dinners ; Catching the snake and the yellowjackets ; Terrapin shows his strength.;Some Surinam tales: Why Cat and Dog are enemies ; Dog asks for a new name ; Why Dog goes about naked ; Dog's riddle ; Grudging hospitality ; The feast on the mountain and the feast under the water ; Tables turned: Cockroach revenged on Anansi ; Giants cure boastfulness ; Spreading the fingers ; The fastidious go hungry ; The preacher traps a thief ; The Devil complains ; Broken pledge: all things talk ; Trespassing on the Devil's land. -- Three party songs from Guyana -- Four Afro-Venezuelan tales: The man, the snake and the fox ; The swordfish ; The woman, the giant and the vulture ; The rooster, the goat and the dog. -- The Afro-Venezuelan Mampulorio -- The myth of Maria Lionza -- Three Afro-Venezuelan songs -- Brazil: the Palmares story -- African religious survivals in Brazil -- Ketu ceremony honoring the deity Yansan -- Some Brazilian cult songs to Yoruba deities -- Melody of a Brazilian cult song -- A cult festival, as reported in the press -- Some words of African origin in Brazilian-Portuguese speech -- The man who took a water mother for his bride -- Brazil: the way of Batucada: Voice of the backstreets ; In Batista's street ; Why do you cry? ; I will reform ; I will go away ; Unfortunate vagrant ; I went to the hill ; Where I met you ; I go to Lisbon ; You want to break me ; Sad destiny. -- Afro-American lore, oral literature and folk music in the United States: The question of survivals ; Black, African-American or Negro? ; The matter of vernacular.;The situation of the blacks as seen by nineteenth-century chroniclers: Frederika Bremer's impressions ; As Frederick Law Olmstead saw the slave states ; Frances Anne Kemble on the selling of slaves. -- Epitaph of slave -- Traditions and recollections in the sea islands -- The Bilali document -- The Gullah speech of the coastal region -- Three tales in Gullah dialect: Buh Rabbit and Buh Wolf go hunting ; Buh Deer and Buh Snail have a race ; Playing dead in the road. -- Uncle Remus confronted by the coastal dialect -- Sea island riddles -- Spirituals and religious epics -- As the spirituals are sung: Wake up Jonah ; Job, Job ; Rock chariot ; King David ; When Jesus met the woman at the well ; Wonder where my brother is gone. -- Form the pulpit: Sermon: is God with us? ; John Jasper's sermon on the sun ; Sermon: behold the rib ; Sermon: the poor-rich and the rich-poor. -- The religious shout: Run old Jeremiah -- On the making of songs: Bo-Cat ; Richard Creeks on songmaking. -- Evolution of a plantation song -- The John Henry epic -- Some traditional black ballads: The ballad of Louis Collins ; Frankie and Albert ; Casey Jones ; Betty and Dupree ; Poor Lazarus ; The sinking of the Titanic. -- Worksongs: road gangs and prison camps: Don't you hear my hammer ringing ; Lost John ; Here rattler here ; Grizzly bear ; Captain Holler hurry. -- Some miscellaneous old beliefs -- A Mississippi sharecropper, 1954.;Africa's mark in the western hemisphere -- The inheritance in Cuba -- Some Yoruba legends in Cuba: The distribution of the Orishas' powers ; Olofin punishes Babluaye ; Ogun traps Orumbila ; Why Obatala trembles at the river ; Shango looks for his father ; Obatala's yams. -- Lucumi (Yorubi) liturgical music in Cuba: Two liturgical songs of the Lucumi ; Lucumi dance-songs for Eleggua (Legba) ; Lucumi dance-song for Ogun. -- Rites of the Abakwa secret society: An Abakwa initiation ; Abakwa drumming ; Some passages from Abakwa songs. -- Haitian religious traditions: Vodoun ; A hounfor seen at the turn of the century. -- Two Vodoun rituals: Service for Agwe, God of the Sea ; The degradation ceremony. -- Two Haitian drum rhythms: Kitta mouille, or "Wet" Kitta ; Ibo dance. -- Haiti's political songs: comments on the mighty -- Haitian tales: gods, tricksters and others: Nananbouclou and the piece of fire ; The voyage below the water ; Merisier, stronger than the elephants ; Jean Britisse, the champion ; Charles Legoun and his friend ; The singing tortoise ; Bouki and Ti Malice go fishing ; Baptizing the babies ; Bouki and Ti Bef ; Uncle Bouki gets Whee-Ai. -- Haitian animal tales: Who is the older? ; The dogs pay a visit to God ; Frog, Chief of the Well ; The lizard Bocor. -- The Creole language: Removing a loa from the head of a person who has died ; Brother Ledan's return.;Testing wits: human vs. demon: Wiley and the hair man. -- Moralizing tales: The dying bullfrog ; Buh Raccoon and Buh Possum ; Two friends and the bear ; The eagle and his children ; Chanticleer and the barnyard rooster ; Buh Lion and Buh Goat ; Buh Turkey Buzzard and the rain ; Buh Fox says grace ; Knee-high man wants to be sizable ; Reform meeting ; Buh Fox's number nine shoes ; The well. -- The beginning of things: Origin of the races, according to Uncle Remus ; The deluge, according to Uncle Remus. -- Some familiar proverbs -- An Alabama storyteller and bard: Chicago and Rome ; River, creek, sun, moon ; The draft board ; The visit to Dr. Readys ; Excerpt from an Amerson Street corner sermon -- The tub with the ancient antecedents -- The Carolina yell and other cries and calls -- Blues: About women ; Homesick, broke and far from home ; Jails and county farms ; Two free-form blues. -- Boasting and big-old lies -- Richard Creeks on conjuring and docturing -- Some ring and line games from Alabama -- African dancing in New Orleans -- "Voodoo" rituals in New Orleans -- Congo square -- Creole tales from Louisiana: The Irishman and the frogs ; The marriage of Compere Lapin. -- Three Creole ballads -- New Orleans superstitions: some Creole proverbial wisdom.;In this anthology, "A Treasure of Afro-American Folklore", Harold Courlander brings together oral traditions of black communities in the Western Hemisphere and demonstrates the powerful cultural influence on Africa on this side of the Atlantic. Afro-American folklore includes a wide array of orally transmitted traditions of the numerous, sometimes disparate, Negro cultures of the New World. Among these traditions are tales of scoundrels, heroes, rollicking adventures, friendship, and much more, songs, myths, myth-legends, epic-like narrations, and recollections of historical happenings. There are descriptions of cult life; of music and dance; and of the social scene in places where African and European, or white and black ideas intermingled and became Afro-American. "A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore" perceives the interconnections of cultural inheritances throughout the Afro-American region and the local divergences as well. The Appendixes include a number of African stores and descriptions that point up the impact of African traditions on the cultures of Afro-America. -- From publisher's description.