Current Superstitions

by Fanny D. Bergen

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John Abercromby, Edinburgh, Scotland. Isaac Adler, New York, N.Y. Samuel P. Avery, Jr., New York, N.Y. Miss Alice Mabel Bacon, Hampton, Va. Mrs. Frances Newbury Bagley, Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Mary M. Barclay, Washington, D.C. Eugene F. Bliss, Cincinnati, O. Boston Athenæum, Boston, Mass. Charles P. Bowditch, Boston, Mass. Daniel G. Brinton, Philadelphia, Pa. Philip Greely Brown, Portland, Me. John Caldwell, Edgewood Park, Pa. Miss Mary Chapman, Cambridge, Mass. Francis James Child, Cambridge, Mass. Clarence H. Clark, Philadelphia, Pa. Mattoon Munroe Curtis, Cleveland, O. Charles P. Daly, New York, N.Y. Charles F. Daymond, New York, N.Y. Hiram Edmund Deats, Flemington, N.J. Charles L. Edwards, Cincinnati, O. James L. Ellsworth, Chicago, Ill. Stuyvesant Fish, New York, N.Y. John Fiske, Cambridge, Mass. Alcée Fortier, New Orleans, La. Alfred C. Garrett, Cambridge, Mass. Charles C. Harrison, Philadelphia, Pa. E. Sidney Hartland, Gloucester, Eng. Mrs. Esther Herrmann, New York, N.Y. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cambridge, Mass. John H. Hinton, New York, N.Y. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Richard Hodgson, Boston, Mass. Robert Hoe, New York, N.Y. John E. Hudson, Boston, Mass. Theodore D. Hurlbut, Brooklyn, N.Y. Clarence M. Hyde, New York, N.Y. E. Francis Hyde, New York, N.Y. Frederick E. Hyde, New York, N.Y. Edward C. James, New York, N.Y. Miss Louise Kennedy, Concord, Mass. Mrs. H.H. Kohlsaart, Chicago, Ill. Walter Learned, New London, Conn. Charles McKay Leoser, Larchmont Manor, N.Y. Albert Matthews, Boston, Mass. Washington Matthews, Washington, D.C. J. Meyer, New York, N.Y. Thomas Ewing Moore, Weimar, Germany. Miss Agnes Morgan, Osaka, Japan. William Wells Newell, Cambridge, Mass. Miss Laura Norcross, Boston, Mass. Miss Mary A. Owen, St. Joseph, Mo. Mrs. Gilman H. Perkins, Rochester, N.Y. George M. Richardson, Berkeley, Cal. William L. Richardson, Boston, Mass. Charles Schäffer, Philadelphia, Pa. Otto B. Schlutter, Hartford, Conn. C. Bernard Shea, Pittsburgh, Pa. Gardner P. Stickney, Milwaukee, Wis. Brandreth Symonds, New York, N.Y. John S. Tilney, Orange, N.J. Henry H. Vail, New York, N.Y. Alfred M. Williams, Providence, R.I. Henry J. Willing, Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Henry J. Willing, Chicago, Ill. Worcester City Library, Worcester, Mass.


PUBLICATIONS OF THE

AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE. VOLS. I.--VIII. 1888--1895.

MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.

VOL. I. FOLK-TALES OF ANGOLA.

Fifty Tales with Ki-mbundu text, literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes. Collected and edited by HELI CHATELAIN, late U.S. Commercial Agent at Loanda. Pp. xii., 315. (With two Maps.)

VOL. II. LOUISIANA FOLK-TALES.

In French Dialect and English Translation. Collected and edited by ALCÉE FORTIER, D. Lit., Professor of Romance Languages in Tulane University of Louisiana. Pp. xi., 122.

VOL. III. BAHAMA SONGS AND STORIES.

A Contribution to Folk-Lore, by CHARLES L. EDWARDS, Professor of Biology in the University of Cincinnati. With Music, Introduction, Appendix, and Notes. Six Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1895. Pp. xiii., 111.

VOL. IV. CURRENT SUPERSTITIONS.

Collected from the Oral Tradition of English-speaking Folk. Edited by FANNY D. BERGEN. With Notes, and an Introduction by WILLIAM WELLS NEWELL. 1896. Pp. vi., 161.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK.


THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY was organized January 4, 1888, for the collection and publication of the folk-lore and mythology of the American continent.

The Society holds annual meetings, at which reports are received and papers read.

The membership fee is three dollars, payable on the 1st of January in each year.

Members are entitled to receive the Journal of American Folk-Lore, a periodical appearing quarterly, and of which eight volumes have already been issued, each volume containing about three hundred and fifty octavo pages. The Journal is published for the Society by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York.