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Swapping
Stories: Folktales from Louisiana - Online Resources
 The Swapping
Stories book, video, and website are products of the ten-year Louisiana
Storytelling Project that documented Louisiana storytellers. The
project began as a collaboration with the Louisiana Office of Tourism's
Open House 1990 Storytelling Program with stories being recorded at
Louisiana festivals. Stories were then edited into the book,
video-recorded for the documentary, and finally posted online. Original
audio tapes are archived at Louisiana State University Hill Memorial Library Special
Collections and the T. Harry
Williams Center for Oral History.
Listed below are all excerpts from the
publication and video available online. Some reside on the Louisiana
Public Broadcasting Web server. The book features 210 stories in five
languages. Ten stories on the Louisiana Public Broadcasting website have
audio or video clips.
From the Swapping
Stories website
Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana (on LPB
server)
About the Video
Program
Why are Folktales
Important?
Storytelling
Glossary
A
Storyteller's Perspective by Bertney Langley, Koasati
Storyteller
Excerpts from the
Book
Louisiana's
Traditional Cultures: An Overview, by Maida Owens
Louisiana's
Traditional Cultures (printer-friendly), by Maida
Owens
Louisiana's
Folktale Traditions, by Carl Lindahl
Louisiana's
Folktale Traditions (Outline)
Swapping
Stories Index of Motifs
About
the Transcriptions
Bel
Abbey Introduction from Swapping Stories
Swapping
Stories Isleño Notes
The
Stories
The Alligator Peach Tree, Pierre
Daigle
From the LPB
site
From The Educator's Guide on
this website
Another
Big Fish Story, by Lonnie Gray
The
Arcadia Dating Game, by Harold Talbert
Bel's
Encounter with a Wise Owl, by Bel Abbey
Ben
Lilly, Strong Man of Morehouse Parish, by James B.
Rider
Bouki
and Lapin in the Garden, by Max Greig
Bouki, Lapin et Rat de Bois
(Bouki, Lapin and Possum) by Enola Matthews
From the LPB
site
From The Educator's Guide on this
website
Brer
Rabbit and the Tarbaby, by Dolores Henderson
Bull
Talk, by Governor Jimmie H. Davis
A
Chitimacha Flood Story, by Nicholas L. Stouff
Does He Drive, Too?, by A.J.
Smith
From the LPB site
(video)
From The Educator's Guide on this
website
Elvis
Comes to Angie, by Mary Etta Scarborough Moody
An
Extra Passenger on the Bus, by Harold Talbert
The
First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans (version 1), by Bel
Abbey
First
Meeting of the Indians and Europeans (version 2), by Bel
Abbey
God
Works in Mysterious Ways, by Harry Methvin
How
the Bat Got Its Wings, by Bertney Langley
How
the Koasati Got Their Name, by Bertney Langley
The
Husband's Return, by Irvan Perez
I'm Going to Leave You, Chére, by Harry Lee Leger (video)
It
Was So Cold, by Lonnie Gray
It
Was So Hot, Lonnie Gray
Jean
Sot, la vache, les chiens et sa petite soeur (Jean Sot, the Cow, the
Dogs, and Little Sister), by Enola Matthews
Learning
from the Bear, by Bel Abbey
Leaving Mississippi, by Robert Albritton
(video)
The
Legend of the Brooch, by Wendell Lindsay
The
Life of a Crab Fisherman, by Irvan Perez
Life
Saving Sirens, by Loulan Pitre
The
Little Tar Man, by Wilson "Ben Guiné" Mitchell
Loup Garou as Shadow Companion, by Glen Pitre
(video)
Mosquitoes Save a Life, by Harry
Methvin
From The Educator's Guide on this
website
From the LPB
site
On
Top of Old Smoky, by Harry Methvin
An Oyster-culling Loup Garou, by Loulan Pitre
(video)
Paying
the Price for a Free Train Ride, by Harold Talbert
The
Politician Gets His (two versions), by Hubert L. "Anatoo" Clement,
Sr.
The Reverend Gets the Possum, by Sarah Albritton
(audio)
Setecientos
setentaisiete (Seventeen Seventy-Seven), by Irvan
Perez
The Shadow Companion, by Loulan Pitre
(video)
She Has the Key, by Sarah Albritton
(audio)
Shine
and the Titanic, by Arthur "Arthuro" Pfister
Swapping Stories, by Dave Petitjean and A. J. Smith
(video)
A
Tale About a Catfish, by Sarah Kent
Les
trois couillon (The Three Fools), by Enola Matthews
Les
trois Jobs (The Three Jobs), by Enola Matthews
The
Turtle and the Rabbit Run a Race, by Bel Abbey
Walking
on Water, by Governor Jimmie H. Davis
The
Widow's Buried Gold, by Pierre Daigle
Wrestling
Mania, by Harold Talbert
Why
the Frog Croaks, by Tang Thi Thanh Van
You Think I'm Working, But I'm Not, by Robert Albritton
(video)
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