Folklorist

Andrew Lang

Literature

1844–1912

"Custom and Myth - full text HTML of original work."

🇺🇸Charles Eastman

Literature

1858–1939

"Many of the Indians believed that one may be born more than once, and there were some who claimed to have full knowledge of a former incarnation."

🇺🇸Charles Godfrey Leland

Literature

1824–1903

"Charles Godfrey Leland - An article on Leland and Italian Witchcraft"

🇺🇸Joel Chandler Harris

Journalism

1848–1908

"Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug."

Sabine Baring-Gould

Religion

1834–1924

"Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, by Sabine Baring-Gould"

🇧🇬Parteniy Zografski

Religion

1818–1876

"Our language, as it is well known, is divided into two main dialects, of which one is spoken in Bulgaria and Thrace, and the other one in Macedonia."

🇬🇧James Frazer

Literature

1854–1941

"To a modern reader the connexion at first site may not be obvious between the activity of the hangman and the productivity of the earth."

🇺🇸Zora Neale Hurston

Entertainment

Harlem Renaissance

1891–1960

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

🇬🇧Joseph Jacobs

Business

1854–1916

"You don't know what these beans are, said the man . If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky."