John M. Roberts

John Roberts liked playing with words and learned to write well. His descriptions of life in the classroom, at candlelit singing schools and debates, on madcap sleighing races and camp meeting binges - anywhere he could observe human behavior - help restore our memory of the primitive beginnings of common schools and of country and village life in a region still emerging from its pioneer past.

A Chronicle of Midwestern Rural Life, 1853-1865

Buckeye Schoolmaster

Hugo G. Nutini

In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."—Henry H. Selby

John M. Roberts

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