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The New York Folklore Quarterly was published 1946-1974. Back issues are still available.

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. VII, No. 4, Winter, 1951
CONTENTS

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President’s Page 250 Editor’s Page 251

ARTICLES		    

Children’s Charms and Oracles
Eugenia L. Millard		 253

Christmas Lore:
    A Swedish Christmas
    "Janneying" in Newfoundland

    Pennsylvania Yuletide
Vivan E. Nicander
Mrs. Elizabeth V. Melchen
Dorothy Krisher		 269

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274

Boney Quillen of the Catskills
Norman Studer		 276

Music in the Valleys
Harry S. Douglass		 283

Folklore Keeps the Past Alive
Arthur Palmer Hudson		 291

GLORY HOLE		    

Folk Remedies in Andes
Mrs. Lovisa V. Smith		 295

Another Werwolf
Henry W. Shoemaker		 299

A Jail Song
Emma W. Piehl		 300

"Medicine Jack"
Mrs. Ruth C. H. Murray		 302

Tall Tales from Oneida County
Henry S. Kernan		 304

DEPARTMENTS		    

The Counties: Lore from Chautauqua County
Flora H. Dann		 306

Upstate, Downstate
B. A. Botkin and
W. G. Tyrrell		 319

Reviews:
    Boyer, Buffington, and Yoder, Songs Along the Mahantongo
    Wood’s Holt! T’Other Way!
Samuel P. Bayard
Janice Neal		 325
327

Contributors		  
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