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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. XI, No. 3, Autumn, 1955
CONTENTS

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President’s Page 162 Editor’s Page 163

ARTICLES		    

Negro Tales from Eastern New York
K. Leroy Irvis		 165

Italian Tales in New York City
M. Jagendorf		 177

Yarns of a Catskill Woodsman
Norman Studer		 183

Witchcraft on Long Island
Miss Kate W. Strong		 193

The Child-Stealing Witch
Eugenia L. Millard		 196

Lore of New York State’s Pioneers
The Editor		 201

GLORY HOLE		    

Scottish Folklore in Brooklyn
Maureen Mazzei		 205

A Loomis Anecdote
Gail Peebles		 208

Folksay in Johnstown, N.Y.
Barbara Fisher		 210

Moron Jokes
Myrna Mt. Pleasant		 211

DEPARTMENTS		    

The Counties (Dutchess): The Green Fly Monster
Augusta Knapp Osborne 		213

Folklore in the Schools (Seventh Grade): Proverbial Comparisons and Expressions from Rural Life
Carlos de Zafra, Jr.		 217

Songs: Two Ballads of the French-Indian War, 1763
Louise Hasbrouck Zimm		 219

Recommendations of Recent Books, Articles, and Recordings
The Editors		 224

Food and Recipes: Some Food Proverbs
Janet R. MacFarlane		 229

Upstate, Downstate
B. A. Botkin and W. G. Tyrrell		 231

Contributors		  
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