The work of the Society includes publication and research in regard to the religious ceremonies, ethical conditions, mythology, and oral literature of Indian tribes; collection of the traditions of stocks existing in a relatively primitive state, and the collation of these with correct accounts of survivals among civilized tribes; gathering of the almost wholly unrecorded usages and beliefs of Central and South American races; the comparison of aboriginal American material with European and Asiatic conceptions, myths, and customs; a study of survivals among American negroes, including their traditional inheritance from Africa, and its modification in this Continent; preservation of the abundant folk-lore of the French and Spanish regions of North America; record of the oral traditions of the English-speaking population, and description of communities now or lately existing under isolated conditions.
The publication of the Memoirs cannot be met from the regular fees of the Society, but is rendered possible by annual contributions to the Publication Fund, of ten dollars, for such time as individual subscribers may be pleased to continue such subscription.
Subscribers are enrolled as members of the Society, and receive all its publications, issued after the date of subscription, including the Journal and Memoirs.
A list of Annual Subscribers is printed in the Journal, and in each volume of the Memoirs, so long as subscription continues.
Persons willing to assist in this work of publication, by the annual payment, during such time as they may please, of ten dollars (which sum, it will be understood, includes the annual membership fee of the Society), are requested to remit their subscriptions to the Treasurer, John H. Hinton, M.D., No. 41 West 32d St., New York, N.Y.
Transcriber's Note
The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.
Misspelled words and typographical errors:
TN-1 11 "over the the right shoulder" the word "the" is repeated TN-2 15 "are his own, property," extra , after "own" TN-3 70 463 Missing . at end of sentence TN-4 80 510 , instead of . at end of sentence TN-5 84 683 "Masssachusetts" should read "Massachusetts" TN-6 93 794 "crock" for "crack" TN-7 103 898 Missing . after the number TN-8 105 924 Missing close quotes TN-9 118 1084 "new moon. come" . instead of , TN-10 119 1199 Number should read 1099 TN-11 128 1205 "bad luck or seven" "or" should read "for" TN-12 159 Note 1280 should read 1180
The following words were inconsistently hyphenated:
close-fistedness / closefistedness sun-wise / sunwise
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Current Superstitions, by Various
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CURRENT SUPERSTITIONS ***
***** This file should be named 18992-8.txt or 18992-8.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/9/18992/
Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.)
Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed.
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is subject to the trademark license, especially commercial redistribution.
*** START: FULL LICENSE ***
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK
