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"Evil eye is an attribute. He who 'has the evil eye' (tiene il malocchio) casts a malevolent power into an object simply by gazing upon it. This malevolent power is referred to as envy (invidia). Once cast, envy acts as a disease ... Headache, impotency, and fever are some of the symptoms of envy once cast into a human object."—Michael Buonanno ("Becoming White: Notes on an Italian-American Explanation of Evil Eye")
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Cover of Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, New York Folklore

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE
Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, Winter-Spring 1984
CONTENTS

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Editor’s Preface   1

Articles
Evaluating Psychoanalytic Folklore: Are Freudians Ever Right?		 Gary Alan Fine 5

"The Palm at the End of the Mind," or Narrative Fortune Telling as Urban Folk Therapy		 Brian Rusted 21

Becoming White: Notes on an Italian-American Explanation of Evil Eye		 Michael Buonanno 39

Traits of the Female Hero: The Application of Raglan’s Concept of Hero Trait Patterning		 Mary Ann Jezewski 55

Folklore Notes

Three Folktales of Early Lebanese Immigrants to New York State		 Eugene Paul Nassar 75

Barnum’s Island, N.Y.: Fact or Fabrication?		 Joann P. Krieg 83

Myth and the Principle of Predestination in Yoruba Folk Culture		 'Bade Ajuwon 89

Review Essay

Dorson’s Farewell		 Bruce Jackson 99

Reviews

Norm Cohen, Long Steel Rail		 Christopher A. LaLonde 113

Roger Abrahams, African Folktales		 Lee Haring 116

David Tatham, Abraham Tuthill: Portrait Painter in the Young Republic		 John Braunlein 119

Contributors to This Issue		   121

Information for Contributors and Guide to Style		   122


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