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CONTENTS

The Folk-Lore Society

FOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING

RELICS OF POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, &c.

ESTABLISHED IN
THE YEAR MDCCCLXXVIII.

Alter et Idem.

Alter et idem.

PUBLICATIONS
OF
THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
LV.
[1904]


JAMAICAN SONG AND STORY:

ANNANCY STORIES, DIGGING SINGS, RING
TUNES, AND DANCING TUNES

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
WALTER JEKYLL:

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ALICE WERNER,

AND APPENDICES ON
TRACES OF AFRICAN MELODY IN JAMAICA
BY
C.S. MYERS,
AND ON
ENGLISH AIRS AND MOTIFS IN JAMAICA
BY
LUCY E. BROADWOOD.

“A few brief years have passed away
Since Britain drove her million slaves
Beneath the tropic’s fiery ray:
God willed their freedom; and to-day
Life blooms above those island graves!”
Whittier

Published for the Folk-Lore Society by
DAVID NUTT, 57-59 LONG ACRE
LONDON
1907


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CONTENTS.

 PAGE
Introduction (Alice Werner),xxiii
Author's Preface,liii
 
PART I.: ANNANCY STORIES,1
1. Annancy and Brother Tiger,7
2. Yung-Kyum-Pyung,11
3. King Daniel,14
4. Tomby,16
5. How Monkey manage Annancy,20
6. Blackbird and Woss-woss,23
7. The Three Sisters,26
8. William Tell,...

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