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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. XXVI, No. 4, December, 1970

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Grant Announcement
William M. Schwerd		 242

Dingbat Prouty: An Excursion into
Communal Scholarship
Harriet Conners, Carolyn Hankins, Florence Ireland, Edward Ives, William Joy, and William Yerxa		 242

The Inadvertent Changing of Non-English Names by Newcomers to America: A Brief Historical Survey and Popular Presentation
of Cases
Robert M. Rennick		 263

"Muels," "Owls," and Other Things: Folk Material in the Tobacco Philosophy of Josh Billings
Geoffrey Allan Grimes		 283

"A True and Jenuine Madstone"
Richard G. Case		 297

Voodoo: Tropical Pharmacology or Psychosomatic Psychology
James F. Byers		 305

Index for Volume XXVI
Helen A. Fraser		 313

Contributors
312

Meeting Announcement
320


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