African diaspora and Atlantic traditions, including Jamaican Anansi stories, Obeah, Louisiana Voodoo, New Orleans folklore, and African American coastal oral history.
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Drums and Shadows — Oral folklore from coastal Georgia collected during the 1930s WPA writers' program
Jamaica Anansi Stories — Classic collection of Jamaican Anansi folklore, folk music, and riddles
The Last of the Voudoos — Account of the last great Voodoo doctor of New Orleans by Lafcadio Hearn — a portrait of Jean Montanet, born in Senegal, who rose to become the most celebrated occultist of nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Voodoos and Obeahs — Study of West Indian witchcraft, Vodun history, and Afro-Caribbean religion