# Journal of American Folk-Lore/Volume 11

THE JOURNAL OF
AMERICAN FOLK-LORE
VOLUME XI
LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270, 271 STRAND LEIPZIG: OTTO HARRASSOWITZ, QUERSTRASSE, 14
Copyright, 1899, By THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
Issues (not listed in original)
* Issue 40, January-March 1898
* Issue 41, April-June 1898
* Issue 42, July-September 1898
* Issue 43, October-December 1898
* Index to Volume XI
Vol. XI. OCTOBER—DECEMBER, 1898. No. XLIII.
THE
JOURNAL OF
AMERICAN FOLK-LORE
EDITOR
WILLIAM WELLS NEWELL
CONTENTS :
| | | PAGE |
| 1. | American Indian Games. (Illustrated.) Stewart Culin | 245 |
| 2. | Myths of the Jicarilla Apaches. Frank Russell | 253 |
| 3. | The Pretty Pa-Tree | 272 |
| 4. | Popular American Plant-Names. VIII. Fanny D. Bergen | 273 |
| 5. | Animal Tales from North Carolina. Emma M. Backus | 284 |
| 6. | Record of American Folk-Lore. A. F. C. and I. C. C. | 293 |
| 7. | Folk-Lore Scrap-Book | 298 |
| 8. | Bibliographical Notes | 302 |
| | Books—Journals |
| 9. | Officers and Members of the American Folk-Lore Society | 312 |
| 10. | Subscribers to the Publication Fund | 318 |
| 11. | Index to Volume XI | 319 |
LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270, 271 STRAND LEIPZIG: OTTO HARRASSOWITZ, QUERSTRASSE, 14
Copyright, 1898, by The American Folk-Lore Society
SINGLE NUMBERS, $1.00 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $3.00
Entered at the Post Office at Boston as second-class matter
DEPARTMENT INDEX.
Folk-Lore Scrap-Book. Cheyenne Marriage Customs.—The Yu-li or Precious Records (Chinese Taoist Scriptures).
Bibliographical Notes. Dennett’s Notes of the Folk-Lore of the Fjort.—Lawrence’s The Magic of the Horse-Shoe.—Seklemian’s The Golden Maiden.—Greenough’s Canadian Folk-Life and Folk-Lore.
THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE.
THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE (Quarterly), issued by The American Folk-Lore Society, is designed for the collection and publication of the folk-lore and mythology of the American Continent.
The subscription price is Three Dollars per annum. A limited number of copies of the completed volumes (Vols. I.–X., 1888–1897) remain on hand, and may be procured of the publishers, on payment of the annual fee for each volume. A cover, suitable for binding, is prepared, and will be forwarded by the publishers, through the mail, on receipt of 30 cents a volume.
The American Folk-Lore Society was organized January 4, 1888. The Society holds annual meetings, at which reports are received and papers read. The membership fee is three dollars, payable on the 1st of January in each year. Members are entitled to receive the Journal of American Folk-Lore. Subscribers to the Journal, or other persons interested in the objects of the Society, are eligible to membership, and are requested to address the Permanent Secretary to that end.
OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY (1898).
President—Henry Wood, Baltimore, Md.
First Vice-President—Charles L. Edwards, Cincinnati, O.
Second Vice-President—Alice C. Fletcher, Washington, D. C.
Council—Alice Mabel Bacon, Hampton, Va.; Robert Bell, Ottawa, Can.; Daniel G. Brinton, Philadelphia, Pa.; Heli Chatelain, Angola, Africa; †Roland B. Dixon, Cambridge, Mass.; James W. Ellsworth, Chicago, Ill.; †Alcée Fortier, New Orleans, La.; Stansbury Hagar, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Otis T. Mason, Washington, D. C.; John H. McCormick, Washington, D. C.; †Frederic W. Putnam, Cambridge, Mass.; Gardner P. Stickney, Milwaukee, Wis.
Permanent Secretary—William Wells Newell, Cambridge, Mass.
Treasurer—John H. Hinton, 41 West 32d Street, New York, N. Y.
† As Presidents of Local Branches.