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Hunters & Healers : Folklore Types & Topics Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 35
author
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Hudson, Wilson Mathis
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574410911
print isbn13
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9781574410914
ebook isbn13
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9780585285665
language
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English
subject
Folklore--Texas.
publication date
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2000
lcc
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GR1.T4 2000eb
ddc
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390/.08
subject
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Folklore--Texas.
Page i
Hunters & Healers
Folklore Types & Topics
Edited by Wilson M. Hudson
Publications of The Texas Folklore Society Number XXXV
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Copyright 2000 by the Texas Folklore Society
All rights Reserved
Copyright 1971 by The Texas Folklore Society Encino Press, Austin
Printed in the United States of America
Permissions: University of North Texas Press P. O. Box 311336 Denton, Texas 76203 (940) 5652142 FAX (940)5654590
ISBN 1574410911
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For Mody C. Boatright, 18961970
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Preface
Like most of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, this volume is a miscellany. The editor accepts articles as they happen to be submitted and he asks for good papers that he has heard at various meetings. In a year's time he finds that he has enough material to make a book (usually more than enough), and then he sets about the task of editing and arranging in the hope of discovering some kind of unity and progression. Except for The Legends of Texas (1924), all of our Publications have been allowed to take their own way instead of being limited in advance to a particular topic of folklore collection or study.
The result of this editorial policy is that contributors have had freedom to choose their subjects and readers have found variety and range in our Publications, all of which are now in print or in process of being reprinted. Variety and range have been encouraged by the Society's editorsStith Thompson, J. Frank Dobie, and Mody Boatright,who have taken a liberal view of what might be considered folklore or be discussed from the point of view of folklore.
In the present miscellany Francis Abernethy leads off with a discussion of the communal hunt as it is practiced in East Texas, bringing out its ties with antiquity. Next Paul W. Schedler tells about some of the folk cures which he has learned of from his patients. Mary Sue Carlock shows that the frontier preacher as a type recognizable in Methodist autobiographies was influenced by the writings of John
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Wesley. Carrol Y. Rich gives an hour-by-hour account of the killing of Bonnie and Clyde, two little criminals who have passed into national folklore and have recently attained widespread sartorial influence. Joyce Roach deals with the folklore of truckers and the popular songs about them. Jimmy Skaggs shows that the cowboys and cowmen who participated in the "memoir syndrome" were influenced by oral transmission.
The various connections made by ballad scholars between "Sir Patrick Spens" and history are reviewed and judged by Norman L. McNeil. John Q. Anderson is on sure ground when dealing with the actual events that preceded the composition of "The Gatesville Murder." History and hearsay are all but inextricably entangled in Elton Miles's account of the long struggle between the Leatons and Burgesses on the Rio Grande.
It has been acknowledged that traditional ways of doing or making things are properly a part of folklore studies. E. J. Rissmann tells how hogs were killed and soap was made when he was a boy on a Texas ranch in the early part of this century.
When frontier journalists needed copy they could invent stories circumstantial enough to take in hurried readers ready for excitement. W. H. Hutchinson asks some deflating questions about a story of three deserters from the command of de Soto in California. Pecos Bill, let us remember, was the invention of newspaper writers.
The commercial folk festival can be fun. Quilts and many other artifacts are to be had, and there is plenty of "folksy" entertainment. But, as Hermes Nye points out, it is possible to attend such a festival and never run across any genuine representatives of the folk.
Folklore and folk motifs are not confined to rural, traditional societies, but may be and are carried over into an urbanized, sophisticated society and some of its favorite forms of entertainment. Various articles in our Publications have given ample evidence that this is true. Here George Hendricks points out some well-worn motifs in Westerns made for movies and television.
In this century both critics and writers have come to recognize the significance and value of "myth" and folklore as elements in creative literature. Patrick Mullen traces these elements in The Ordways by William Humphrey.
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The Publications have never been limited to Texas materials. To the very first volume, which he brought out in 1916, Stith Thompson contributed an article called "The Prehistoric Development of Satire." The second contained an article on Balkan ballads. In the present volume Henry Schmidt writes about the huapango, an art form which he has studied in Mexico. Our most far-ranging article is by Paul Durrenberger, who takes us to Thailand to observe some of the practices and beliefs of Shan farmers.
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