Twenty-eight magic tales (of the same genre as "Jack and the Beanstalk") collected in southwestern Virginia by Virginia WPA Writers' Project workers during the late 1930s. Perdue, a University of Virginia folklorist who has co-edited Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves, gives a concluding and explanatory essay. The New Deal and Folk Culture Series. "The narratives are interesting in themselves and not merely for historical value". Perdue is "to be commended for ... careful documentation". -- Southern ...
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Twenty-eight magic tales (of the same genre as "Jack and the Beanstalk") collected in southwestern Virginia by Virginia WPA Writers' Project workers during the late 1930s. Perdue, a University of Virginia folklorist who has co-edited Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves, gives a concluding and explanatory essay. The New Deal and Folk Culture Series. "The narratives are interesting in themselves and not merely for historical value". Perdue is "to be commended for ... careful documentation". -- Southern Folklore
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