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(RELIGION.) VOODOO. Voo Doo Tales told among the Negroes of the South West, Collected from Original Sources by Mary Alicia Owen. Illustrations in the text; 310 pages. Royal 8vo, original pictorial cloth; spine darkened with loss of cloth at the crown. New York: Putnams, 1893
A collection of tales that are clearly derived from West African Anansi tales of the Bee King, How the Woodpecker Made a Bat, Woodpecker and Grey Wolf. The Woodpecker seems to occupy the place of the rabbit from the Anansi stories. A great read.
