Traditional medicine

Abstract 0460 Arthur Gray, Cheryl Ann, Jim Thibodeau, and Jim Jackson, interviewed by Laura Stevens for FO 2, spring of 1968, Brewer, Hermon, and Levant, Maine. Accession includes a student paper and an accompanying tape reel. Gray (Brewer), Ann and Thibodeau (Hermon), Jackson (Brewer), and Stevens (Orono) talk about lore pertaining to horses: horse markings and physical features (such as “pig eyes”) and their meanings; Indian legend of the origin of the Appaloosa; a horse trading story; cures for...

Abstract 1037 Clarence Grover, interviewed by Jack Beard and Joan Brooks, April 10, 1976, Eddington, Maine. Grover talks about knowing the people who drove the stage along the Airline (now route 9); getting married in 1930; how the Airline used to go over Chick Hill; poaching; working in his father’s mill; the first automobile; working to build the road around Chick Hill; working in a lumber camp; songs sung in the camp and at home; the Grange Hall in Amherst; his father; people who owned stills...

Abstract 1288 David Priest, interviewed by William Warner, September 26, 1979 – March 9, 1980, Winn, Maine. Priest, a retired game warden, talks about his life and work in the Maine woods; his interest in hunting, trapping, and fishing as a child; trapping as more profitable than service as a game warden, which led him to abandon his first stint as a game warden; the seasonal cycle of trapping and working as a fishing guide; application process to become a game warden; responsibilities of a game...

Abstract 0154 Don Wilson, John Hiescock, Walter Seaha, Jim Davenporte, interviewed by Jerome Gamache for CP 180, Orono, Maine, April 1964. Accession includes handwritten summaries of jokes and anecdotes and an accompanying tape reel. Wilson, Hiescock, Seaha, Davenporte talks about sex jokes and lore; unusual people and events; tall tales about hunting; mention of divining rod; blood-stoppers; home remedies; a hermit; conversation about spirits; dream predictions; a ghost story; weather lore; place...

Abstract 0475 Emile Levesque, Arthur Levesque, Adrien Violette, Yvonne Violette, Roger Levesque, Matilda Levesque, and Yvette Morrissette, interviewed by Claire Violette for FO 2, fall 1968,Augusta, Maine. The paper contains material in French and English, and there is an itemized table of contents and a family tree. E. and A. Levesques (collector’s uncles), Violettes (parents), R. Levesque (cousin), M. Levesque (aunt), and Morrissette (friend) tell stories in the French, many having to do with...

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0151 Various, interviewed by Jennie Gray for CP 180, fall 1963, Columbia Falls, Deblois, and Harrington, Maine. Informants include Clyde Merritt, Clyde Gray, Adelia Merritt, Newell Torrey, Harry Stevens, Frances Wakefield, Mrs. Robert Gray, and Robert Gray. Paper deals with place names; anecdotes of Fred Davies; headless ghost; devil; folk songs; Rayme Dyer, strong man; wart cure; healer; blood-stopper; forerunner; Jake the Jew story; jokes; Wilbur Day, poacher. Text: 92 pp. paper

Abstract NA0005 Various, interviewed by Robert Allen for CP 180, fall 1963, Beal’s Island, Machias area, Wesley, Crawford, Northfield, Maine. Informants include Greta Lenfesty, Dot Hanscom, John Bacon, Carl Day, Ralph Hayward, Maude Cates, and George Daggett. Paper deals with stories of Wilbur Day and George Magoon, poachers; how Calvin Graves killed two game wardens for trying to shoot his wife’s dog; wolf stories; story of Mary Wood, a tramp; table tipping; story of a bloodstopper; cure for bad...