New York Folklore Quarterly: Volume VIII, No. 1

"While there are any number of stories about contemporary ghosts, and while the papers occasionally carry accounts of witchcraft in our time, the Devil seems not to come among us any more, at least not in a form we recognize. This is not to belittle the amount of deviltry that is going on in our day and our land, nor is it to ignore the fact that there is always the Devil to pay. What I say is merely that the stories men and women tell of his visits to New York State are old stories..."(from "The Devil in York State" by Louis C. Jones)

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. VIII, No. 1, Spring, 1952
CONTENTS

Editor’s Page 2	President’s Page 3
ARTICLES
The Devil in York State	Louis C. Jones	5
Irish Lore Collected in Schenectady	W. Stuart Rogers	20
Pinkster Ode, Albany, 1803	Copied by Geraldine R. Pleat and Agnes N. Underwood	31
Children’s Charms and Oracles, Part II	Eugenia L. Millard	46
GLORY HOLE
How the Monkey Lost His Tail, A Chinese Story	Hsin-min Wu	58
The Diabolical Hat, A Polish Tale from Amsterdam, N.Y.	Mrs. Marion Moore Coleman	60
DEPARTMENTS
The Counties: Lore from Schenectady County	Neil B. Reynolds	65
Upstate, Downstate	B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell	73
Book Review: Botkin’s A Treasury of Western Folklore	Levette J. Davidson	80
Contributors		Inside Back Cover

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