Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 221, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1928 Page: 4 of 6
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NAVASOTA DAILY EXAMINER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25,1928
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The Folklore of the South
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the Catholic religion mostly and are
not allowed the freedom of song at
their mass meetings <
One year at a Protestant revival
meeting in the Oreole section the ne-
groes first found themselves along
these Lines and got great pleasures out
of “Roll Jordan. Roll,** and “Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot**
Then in 1842 the negro minstrel was
first introduced, by a northerner, how-
ever, Stephen C. Foster has done more
than the others in the development of
songs and dances for the negro mln-
ntrals>
, The cant the North, and the West
have each developed along its own
particular interests, but none possesses
the pleasant associations given to the
South by its wealth <* folklore.
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of the mountaineers for our plea-
Tehre is a charm about the
folklore and • Songs of these moun-
taineers that no other literature, If
so 4t may be called, possesses a twang
and true representation of pioneer
Americanism, though much Qf its rug-
ged beauty has been marred and tar-,
nished by ungainly “isms”. An ex-
ttremelj* queer looking instrument to
a., the dnlrfiher ta med tor tb«e folk t o[
songs, and they produce an erreslst-
ible music which may be mournful, rol-;
licking, pensive, or pay as the mood |
Say. folks! Were you ever In an
old building when it was raining and
the wind was blowing and you had to
dodge failing plaster or pieces of win-
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beloved songsters of the South, the S!
theme of their songs is not necessarily
romance but rather the commop, lazy
OW«to IWfig^.^nj.^^eir .Mexican
“si(Ytn«’r in their patios, for they
have a strain of the Spaniard In fhgm-
Many of. their.eopgs were written to ./
spite somebody and through ha^e<.M y (
is said thaJ’ one of the “Creole^
ittfccnowr; who had been addressed as |
negro, said, “wiM* you say, me naygur?
No, no. m’sieu, me Creole, me.*’ And /
Cable, who was vitally Interested in
the Creoles, gives us this definition,
•’The word Creole has always implied
a certain excellence of origin and the
use of French vernacular.’’ All Creoles,
whether mulatto or ywhite,* have the
aristocratic background of the French.
There*is another type of negro dear
to every southerner’s heart, the negro
' . This is the type of i
negroes who have been most closely
assctciated with the white aristrocrats,
and yet they are more aware of bls
inferiority to the whites than that of
any other class. His negro talcs are
mostly “Uncle Remus’* tales of ani-
mals or of uncanny goings on.
The Gullah negroes, or negroes of
Georgia and Kentucky, are the most
barbaric am! African In their tales.
The Gullah negro tales are most often
of animals and nature, as are those
of other negroe^ but fl*ey lieftedt
much of the creeds and barbaric ele-
ment of the primitive African.
Wherever the old negro is found
there one finds superstitions of “eun-
Jers," "voukdoahs,” and the terror of
tiie Ku Klux Klan.’* Hymns and
spiritual songs have been a strong ele-
ment among most southern negroes.
The ■‘Creoles’ though, not like other
BtHopians, have no great wealth cf
religious songs, because they practice
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The earliest St. Augustine legends
were Spanish in origin, as were its
people, and we have little noticeable j
origin. Among these old French 1
i people are found tales of love. su-,*’H‘ wa*v ^fatere they stood.
i, the old Dominion, we | j)rerne ]ove ol. defeated love. But , bride whs attired in navy blue crepe j Used to It
j there is a distinct type of “Creoles” j with accessories in harmonizing color. ! The hotel was much frequented by I
or mulattos who have legends of a ! ()nlv relatives and close friends were comn,er<‘i:l' travelers, who thought i
.... , i a ti. . I * relatives and close friends were tbev 11H(1 fo,in(1 a gO1)d tnrget for the]r I
different sort, legends of the ordinary | prP!Sen(. Immediately* after the cere-: huiimr in a clergyman who booked a !
^MtaW^iriTtau"115 aS °ne !inony the happy pair motored to Hemp-; roora there- Dav in a0*1 day out’ at ’
Missieu’ Mazireau who ran a dance I ste,n* where they will make their fu-
hall for negroes, was one night arrest-1,ure home. Roth of the young people once. J
ed with several negroes, and the next leave a host of friends in our little 'VOIlder y°u ’t“ud those young- |
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of the songster. The mountaineer’s i
songs are true replicas of the Anglo-
Saxon race, as their people are most-
ly from..Ireland'Scotland. England,
and Wales. One Mrs. Richardson, who
heard the peculiar call of these folk
songs, asked an old mountaineer the
origin at a song he had just sung for
her, and he responded, “Wai, my gran’
mamy sang it to us kids and she sez
her granny sed it was as old as the
mountains thenasetves. Can yon fig-
ger that up?” There is one striking
peculiarity about the mountaineer’s
songs noted particularly by Mrs. Rich-
ardson : they are not inspired by the
rising sun and their dally tail, but are
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boys are born I han girls, yet an adult '
census shows- more wiuneii than men. :
; This holds go<,>d., so far as is lyiown.
[ througliout the liumni) race. 1
We deliberately eoddle women and j
i<- h'gends surrotind monasteries, emt- . ,, , , , -i make It nr i< !icablv ttripossllde for
and ..(bar ptaeeb of wnrlAp. nil.''"1 ' ...... ’ ” ""*■ 'vh™ .bc.n fo be a. r„-aed < >..e.: ,l.e, .
Mexi.au tales are intenselv romantic K:H M^Hth of this eity became J ai-tmilly la-come the wot^er sex; and j
ami intJnselv Mwerful. we-vu!l t’tem i' a w- a!: -r sex.
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owe the uiKwrthirig of innumerable for of the Methodist church read the j ns pounds for Irif.'rrii:-; that 'he fv- j
Mexican Iqgends. marriftge vows. The ring ceremony '-’halo is initurtiHy wenket or ir.i.-rtur. I
or Huguenots- of 1 . .. , • . , . '■ i On ike -.mtrury. th- fiwit that nature
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POSITIVELY MONK of thee* predaete eeM at to
pries after geturdar .
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the” p:»ns dr tubs so we almost float around,
away. If you want to have this ex-
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[ hig:, and. say. lu> <-an‘ful when you 4
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old and may fall any minute. And
t he bannisters don’t- touch them
bt'cause if on
There is a lingering sweetness and jsung only at twilight, just before artl-
roniance in our- glorious South that ficial Hilling becomes necessary, and -’'J,**
all realize, but few know -its tangible ranother thing, tney do not till join in
meaning. It may be aycminted for in|rll(‘ ringing, but dne sings at the time
this w^y: from the earliest times, even
to the settlement of St. Augustine.
Florida and Jamestown. Virginia, the
South has had numerous legends and
tables which have ibeqome a part, a
distinct part of southern lives. And
the Southern States, of all these Unlt-
j ed States, are the only ones that have,
to any extent, retained stories of early
*' ' all their jests with irritating indlffer- '
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£sters so
after a particularly foolish .joke at the i
dinner table. “Don’t you hear what '
they say?”.
The clergyman smiled gently at the •
grinning faces waiting for his reply, i
“Oh. yes,” he answered, “but then, j
you see, I am chaplain at a lunatic j
nsyluni. so I’m* used to this sort of
while the others listen. •_ - ..
While the mountaineei*s have their
tales in Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Virginia, there is an entirely different
type Io be found in one of our most
southern states. Texas; this includes
Mexican legends of beautiful Spanish
S irorilas and their daring, handsome
’’ yenorcs.
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times, for they have both time and in-
terests in such things. Now these
things have passed from our consci-
ousness, but they give the Southerner,
any where in the worfd. a certain ro-
' :f mantle .equ.IM.nw.blp. It.rn.4b- Mexleun Wends.
The , “Creoles” or Huguenots- of j ‘-
Sonth Carolina and Louisiana Lave . .
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llmrrowi'd their folklore from a French' ,* i '< ' 'f; ” ~ ;
record of these other than Ponce \Inong these old French •,,n’1 <,nt fhrwers were used in; ~George V. Dorsey In Cosmopolitan. -
Leon’s miraculous fountain of youth. . ar<, foun<] tales (>f ,ove HU. the hall way where they stood. The I 1--------
From ^Tirgtaria, the old Dominion, ^®|preme ]ove ol defeated love. But . bride was attired in navy blue crepe j
iget our earliest true representation^ j thpre dlsrtlnct type of “Creoles” with accessories in harmonizing color.
firTLieriXi wMteddld l°r nn,latt°8 who bave lpgends of a i relatives and close friends were
Dare, the first American wMte differeDt sort legends of the ordinary , f
te -the source of our first beliefs. Vlr- • . 1 PreMsnt.
ginia was supposed to have been
changed into a white doe by a re-
jected lover, but restored to human
fthrnMg-.h her own charm and shot
rinre^n^lte11^ britevldSlthlt tTlrili | “*ht ln “?8!®e8 i h"VU " h° W1*h f°F th®“ a hAWy
WhUe .dqe with a silver arrow la
bad omen. There is a bountious
wealth of suA Indian tales, though
ndt distinctly of the South; yet the
-ioMbern people h.ve ever bee, the y >f
ones who have had time and interest ,v lmAn<r tha
* to devote to- tha brilliant Indian fdk-
lore. i
Ghost tales of war times haye
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Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 221, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1928, newspaper, October 25, 1928; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1337306/m1/4/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.