Journal of Folklore Research

Volume 14, Nos. 1-2January-August 1977

Special Double Issue:
Stories of Personal Experiences

Sandra K. D. Stahl
Introduction / 5

Sandra K. D. Stahl
The Personal Narrative as Folklore / 9

Jane Masi Hall
Homer Spriggs: Chronicler of Brummetts Creek / 31

Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Storytelling Style in the Personal Narratives of Homer Spriggs / 51

James P. Leary
White Guys' Stories of the Night Street / 59

Brunhilde Biebuyck-Goetz
"This is the Dyin' Truth": Mechanisms of Lying / 73

Yvonne R. Lockwood
Death of a Priest: The Folk History of a Local Event as Told in Personal Experience Narratives / 97

Richard M. Dorson
The Legend of the Missing Pajamas and Other Sad Sagas / 115

Editor's Comment: Legendary Overkill / 125

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