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"The next important holiday for the Dutch is Luilakfeest (Sluggard’s Feast), on the day before Pentecost. The main celebration starts at the break of dawn and usually ends by the time the majority of people have to go to work. The work luilak means lazy, and it is told that the holiday originated many, many years ago when the bells in the steeple didn’t toll one morning. The people, not knowing that the watchman in the steeple had died the previous night, called him luilak, and the day has been celebrated ever since." (from "Dutch Lore in Holland and at Castleton, New York" by Louise Van Nederynen Atteridg)
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Cover of Vol. 24 New York Folklore

Cover of New York Folklore Quarterly

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

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. X, No. 4, Winter, 1954
CONTENTS

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President’s Page 242 Editor’s Page 244

ARTICLES		    

Dutch Lore in Holland and at Castleton, N.Y.
Louise Van Nederynen Atteridg		 245

Danish Lore in Denmark and at Troy, N.Y.
Mildred R. Larson		 266

Grandmother Remembers Switzerland
Virginia White		 274

The Ballad of Brave Paulding and The Spy in the Ramapo Valley
Anne Lutz		 279

Who Was Hiawatha?
Arthur C. Parker		 285

GLORY HOLE		    

The Leather Man Again
Leah A. Strong		 289

More Long Island Memories
Miss Kate W. Strong		 291

Stuffle Denmark and the Bear
Mrs. Betty Denmark Morris		 293

Jonahs on Modern Whale Factory Ships
J. A. B. Athey		 295

Alf’s Tough Oxen
Arthur C. Parker		 297

DEPARTMENTS		    

The Counties: Judge Brewster’s Tales of Essex County
Mrs. Barbara Way Hunter		 298

Songs: "Chanuke, O Chanuke" (Jewish)
Mrs. Ruth Rubin		 308

Folklore in the Schools: The Teaching of Folklore with Local History
The Editor		 310

Upstate, Downstate
B. A. Botkin and
W. G. Tyrrell		 314

Index to Vol. X		   321

Contributors		   Cover


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