Hoodoo-conjuration-witchcraft-rootwork

Harry Middleton Hyatt

1843 pages · about 31 hours
First published 1970
8 editions

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1 About this book

He was an Anglican preacher who collected folklore and stories. He started to collect folk magic spells in Illinois where he lived and then worked his way through the South. He recorded these stories via an early recording device.

Medicine, magic
Afro-Americans
Folklore
Social life and customs
African Americans

2 About Harry Middleton Hyatt

1896–1978

Harry Middleton Hyatt was an Anglican minister and amateur folklorist raised in Quincy, Illinois. He received his M.A. and D.D. at Kenyon College and Oxford University. He served as assistant rector at the Church of the Holy Spirit in New York City from 1951 to 1965. and returned to Quincy, Illinois after his retirement in 1965.

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