(FOLKLORE) Harry M Hyatt Hoodoo Conjuration Witchcraft Rootw

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(FOLKLORE.) Harry M. Hyatt. Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork. 5 volumes, averaging 900 pages each. Quarto, 10½ x 7½ inches, publisher's gray and red cloth, minimal wear. [Hannibal, MO]: Alma Egan Hyatt Foundation, 1970

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A complete set of Hyatt's exhaustive oral histories collected throughout the South. From the introduction: "Throughout the following pages, 1606 strange-world believers and I will talk about magic rites and spirits--talking on more than 3000 old-fashioned Ediphone and Telediphone cylinders . . . a serious investigation of superstition." The ratio of informants was "1605 Negroes to one white man," with interviews conducted from 1936 onward. The set was self-published over eight years, and limited to a few hundred copies. A promised sixth volume containing an index was apparently never issued.

With--Hyatt. "Folk-Lore from Adams County Illinois." xvii, 723, [1] pages. Octavo, 9½ x 6 inches, publisher's cloth; minimal wear. In original glassine dust wrappers, with printed "Presentation Copy" slip. New York: Alma Egan Hyatt Foundation, 1935.