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Notes The map of William MacGregor’s travels is closely based on George Hunter’s manuscript map of the Cherokee Nation and the Traders’ Path from Charles Town via Congaree, 1730. (Library of Congress, Faden Collection, No. 6). The map in the front of this present volume was designed and drawn by John Chamblee. Chapter 2. “If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares” is from John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Brian Loughrey and T. O. Treadwell, eds. (London: Penguin Books, 1986), 72. The best recording is the Hyperion CD by The Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow, director . John Coleman’s poem about CharlesTown is quoted from Walter Edgar’s South Carolina: A History (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998), 155. The poem is dated 1769 but it applies as well for 1735. “Barbados fever” is an early term for yellow fever. Chapter 4. For the use of whips to drive livestock, see the movie The Man from Snowy River. Chapter 5. For William MacGregor’s edition of Shakespeare’s works, see Andrew Murphy , Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 64–69. A recording of “Green Stockings” may be heard on the CD The Musitians of Grope Lane, The City Waites, Musica Oscura. “A Lusty Young Smith at his Vice Stood a Filing”is fromThomas D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719–1720, vol. 4, 195. A recording may be heard on the CD The Musitians of Grope Lane. Chapter 6. It must be observed that in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, pineland savannahs (treeless areas for grazing cattle) occurred on both sides of the Savannah River. “Savannah” in this sense is a word brought in from the Spanish Caribbean much earlier than the earliest appearance of the Shawnee Indians in South Carolina. At the time of earliest European exploration, longleaf pine forest covered about 60 million acres in the lower South, and it was mixed in with other trees in about an additional 30 million acres.Today, longleaf pines grow in the South on less than 3 million acres, and only 264 / Notes about 12,000 acres of old growth longleaf forest remains. This dwarfs current deforestation figures for Amazonia. Chapter 7. A hog “crawl” is thought to be an Anglicization of “corral,” perhaps a borrowed word from Jamaica. Chapter 10. “Man Is for the Woman Made” is from Pills, vol. 3, 223. Chapters 12 and 13. The sexual riddles are from Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj, “Sexual Riddles: The Test of the Listener,” Elektroloristi, 1/1997, vol. 4, 1, 8. In the eighteenth century, “cony” rhymed with “honey,” and more to the point, with “cunny,” i.e., a slang word for vagina. Hence, as pronounced,“cony” and “cunny” sounded the same. “Cunny” is a diminutive of “cunt,” which derives from ancient Indo-European root words. Rabbits are not native to Britain and are not mentioned earlier than the Norman conquest , at which time they were perhaps introduced to Britain. Hence, English speakers evidently borrowed an ancestral form of “cony” from French invaders. In the eighteenth century English speakers began pronouncing “cony” to rhyme with “boney.” Today “cony” has given way to “rabbit,” and “cony” is now rarely used by English speakers. Chapter 13.“The Witch of Glen Gyle” is closely based on the story “The Witch of Laggan ” in Sir George Douglas (ed.), Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales (New York: A. L. Burt Co., n.d.), Dover offprint, 2000, 221–227. “Stone Dress” is closely based on James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1900), 316–319. Chapter 14.William’s telling the story of Romeo and Juliet to Otter Queen was inspired by Laura Bohannon’s essay “Shakespeare in the Bush,”much read by students in introductory anthropology courses taught by college teachers of my generation. Chapter 16. John Coleman’s riddle song is based on Child ballad number 1, “Riddles Wisely Expounded.” Francis James Child (ed.), The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884), vol. 1, 1–6. Chapter 21. Old Fox’s divinatory diagnosis is based on James Mooney, “The Cherokee River Cult,” The Journal of American Folk-Lore 13 (1900):1–10, and Frans M. Olbrechts, “Some Cherokee Methods of Divination,” Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Americanists (1930), 547–552. Chapter 22.“Fair Margaret and Sweet William” closely follows a version of Child...
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