Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes

The Folk-Lore Society FOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING RELICS OF POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, &c.

Established in the Year MDCCCLXXVIII.

PUBLICATIONS
OF
THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
LV.
[1904]

Collected and Edited by Walter Jekyll: With an Introduction by Alice Werner, and Appendices on Traces of African Melody in Jamaica by C.S. Myers, and on English Airs and Motifs in Jamaica by Lucy E. Broadwood.

“A few brief years have passed away
Since Britain drove her million slaves
Beneath the tropic’s fiery ray:
God willed their freedom; and to-day
Life blooms above those island graves!”
Whittier

Published for the Folk-Lore Society by
DAVID NUTT, 57-59 LONG ACRE
LONDON
1907