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Folklore concerns itself with everyday life as well as the world of myth. Long before daily around-the-clock weather reports became available, a West Texas housewife knew from hard-earned experience the truth of the West Texas saying: "It's bad luck to hang your clothes out on the line if there is a bank of blue haze in the west." The bad luck is, of course, what happens to freshly washed clothes still wet on the line when a dust storm hits. However, once a saying is embedded in an oral tradition, no one expects or requires specific proof to support it, no more than in the case of the elderly farmer in Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," who, pressed by the speaker in the poem for a reason why there should be a wall between their properties, offered only his father's saying: "Good fences make good neighbors."
Folklore concerns itself with everyday life as well as the world of myth. Long before daily around-the-clock weather reports became available, a West Texas housewife knew from hard-earned experience the truth of the West Texas saying: "It's bad luck to hang your clothes out on the line if there is a bank of blue haze in the west." The bad luck is, of course, what happens to freshly washed clothes still wet on the line when a dust storm hits. However, once a saying is embedded in an oral tradition, no one expects or requires specific proof to support it, no more than in the case of the elderly farmer in Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," who, pressed by the speaker in the poem for a reason why there should be a wall between their properties, offered only his father's saying: "Good fences make good neighbors."
Folklore is often told in vigorous, robust, and colorful language. We delight to hear a bit of folk-say phrased both neatly and laconically: "I am as hungry as a bitch wolf with puppies"; or, "My mouth is so dry i am spitting cotton."
Ideally, folklore lives in the minds and hearts of a people; those who create it sustain it. However, to print folklore helps to ensure its survival. The folklore we present here varies. We include superstitions and sayings, weather lore, and traditional observations on animal and human life. Also included are remedies and cures, as well as proverbial wit and wisdom.
Folk sayings may vary distinctly from one region to the next, making collecting regional sayings, such as these from Texas, vital. We hope our readers have as much fun browsing through this book as we did preparing it.
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About the Author
Native Texan KENNETH DAVIS, Professor of English at Texas Tech University, received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Author of more than fifty articles and reviews in literature, folklore, and popular culture, he is an executive officer of the Texas Folklore Society, Texas Popular Culture Association, and American Studies Association of Texas.
The late EVERETT A. GILLIS, English Department Chairman at Texas Tech 1963-1969, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught courses in literature, poetry, creative writing, and folklore. He was active in the Southwestern Literature Association and president of the Texas Folklore Society.
Artist TEEL SALE, M.F.A. from the University of North Texas, has exhibited her work in more than fifty juried and invitational shows. She is the co-author of Drawing/ A Contemporary Approach (Holt, Rinehart and Winston ,second edition, 1986).
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