Files
Download Full Text (996 KB)
Loading...
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
Collection
Repository
Recommended Citation
Underwood, P., "Interview with Viola and Melvin Calhoun" (1971). Samuel J. Sackett Folklore Collection. 133.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/133
Language
eng
Comments
For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu