Witness of the Johnstown flood in heaven
How the brother was called to preach
How the preacher made them bow down
How the church came to be split up
Why women always take advantage of men
Sue, Sal and that pretty Johnson gal
Ah'll beatcher makin' money
The workinest pill you ever seen
Ole massa and John who wanted to go to heaven
Why the sister in black works hardest
De reason niggers is working so hard
The first colored man in massa's house
How the negroes got their freedom
From pine to pine Mr. Pinkney
God an' de devil in de cemetery
You think I'm gointer pay you but I ain't
Why the mocking bird is away on Friday
How the woodpecker nearly drowned the whole world
How the possum lost the hair off his tail
How the 'gator got his mouth
How Brer 'Gator got his tongue worn out
How Brer Dog lost his beautiful voice
The goat that flagged a train
Why they always use rawhide on a mule
How the cat got nine lives
The son who went to college
Why the waves have whitecaps
How the lion met the king of the world
Sermon by travelling preacher
Ah'm gointer loose dis right-hand shackle from 'round my leg
Strength test between Jack and the devil
Why the porpoise has his tail on crossways
Why the dog hates the cat
How the devil coined a word
How jack o'lanterns came to be
Why the East Coast has mosquitoes and storms
How a loving couple was parted
How the squinch owl came to be
High walker and bloody bones
Eulalia : ritual to get a man
Marie Leveau : confounding an enemy
Marie Leveau : putting on curse
Turner : initiation ceremony
Turner : routine to keep a husband true
Ritual : initiation ceremony
Ritual : to swell with a brick
Ritual : initiation ceremony
Ritual: to get a person out of the house
Ritual : to keep a person down
Ritual : getting the black cat bone
Ritual : to help a person in jail
Ritual : to silence opposing witnesses
Ritual : ceremonial dance to put away a man
Ritual : to make love stronger
Ritual : to bring a lover back
Ritual : to rule the man you love
Glossary [includes Jack or John, woofing, testimony, John Henry, Long house, Blue baby, Georgia skin game]
[Appendix] I. Negro songs with music : John Henry ; East Coast blues ; Please don't drive me ; Cold rainy day ; Going to see my long-haired babe ; Can't you line it? ; There stands a blue bird ; Mule on de mount ; Let the deal go down
[Appendix] II. Formulae of Hoodoo doctors
[Appendix] III. Paraphernalia of conjure
[Appendix] IV. Prescriptions of root doctors
Part 2. Politics and personalities of Haiti
Voodoo and the voodoo gods
Archahaie and what it means
Parlay cheval ou (Tell my horse)
Graveyard dirt and other poisons
[Appendix] I. Songs of worship to voodoo gods : Maitresse Ersulie ; Féraille ; Rada ; Janvalo (Jean Valdo)
Saint Jacques ; Petro ; Ibo ; Damballa ; Ogoun ; Salongo ; Loco ; Mambo Isan ; Dambala ; Agoë (Agoué te royo) ; Sobo ; Ogoun
[Appendix] II. Miscellaneous songs : Sect rouge ; Chant beginning all rada ceremonies ; La mystérieuse, méringue / A.L. Duroseau ; Etonnement, méringue caractéristique / A. Herandez ; Bonne humeur, méringue Haitïenne / Arthur L. Duroseau ; Olga, méringue par / Arthur Lyncíe Duroseau ; Chanson de Calicot ; La douceur
Back stage and the railroad
Appendix : My people! My people! ; Seeing the world as it is ; The inside light: being a salute to friendship ; Concert
How it feels to be colored me (from Negro : an anthology) : Characteristics of negro expression ; Conversions and visions ; Shouting ; Mother Catherine ; Uncle Monday ; Spirituals and neo-spirituals
Works-in-progress for Florida Federal Writers' Project, "The Florida Negro, 1938" : Folklore and music ; Negro mythical places ; The Ocoee riot ; The sanctified church ; Art and such
Stories of conflict : Richard Wright's "Uncle Tom's Children"
Negroes without self-pity
My most humiliating Jim Crow experience
The rise of the begging joints
What white publishers won't print
Court order can't make races mix