Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection
 

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Identifier

RT398_F666m_1971_03

Publication Date

12-5-1971

Description

Interview with Viola and Melvin Calhoun, an African American couple living in Russell, KS.
00:00:02 - Introduction
00:00:22 - Remedies for cold: corn shuck tea, cotton seed tea, cow chip tea, poultices
00:05:26 - Remedy for tapeworms and fever
00:07:30 - Remedy for lockjaw
00:08:29 - Using spider webs instead of stitches
00:08:52 - Charm against black cats
00:10:03 - Remedy for measles
00:10:33 - Remedy for red bugs
00:12:44 - Killing a black snake to make it rain
00:14:35 - Superstitions
00:18:14 - Removing warts
00:19:15 - Story about the song "Give me Jesus"
00:20:08 - Meeting a cross-eyed girl
00:20:51 - Story about a "witch fella"
00:24:03 - Three divisions of the "Negro Race"
00:30:11 - The "Blue Vein" club
00:32:10 - "White mouth" and use of racialized language
00:38:04 - Career as a teacher
00:54:47 - Song, "He's my Rock, My Sword, My Shield", piano and vocal

Physical Description

reel-to-reel audio and accompanying documentation

Subject

Traditional medicine, Folk tales, Storytelling, Superstitions, Folk music, African Americans, Racism

Rights

© University Archives, Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

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Language

eng

Interview with Viola and Melvin Calhoun

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