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Boney loved children and children were drawn to him. George Swartout says that he ran away from home many times in his childhood to follow boney into the woods. According to Swartout, Boney was playing "hide and coop" with a child on the stone steps of a saloon at Fishs Eddy when he fell and injured his hip and had to be removed to the Soldiers and Sailors home at Bath, New York, where he died. It was therefore appropriate that a chorus of over a hundred children should celebrate his life and exploits in a choral pantomime composed by Herbert Haufrecht especially for the 11th annual Folk Festival of the Catskills, at Chichester, New York, August 18, 1951—from "Boney Quillen of the Catskills" by Norman Studer.
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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

272
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		  
Inside Back Cover


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