Folk-lore from the Dominican republic / by Manuel J. Andrade.

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Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society

11. Manuel Fortuna. Age 20. Dictated one story by the roadside
while on the way to town to sell cocoanuts.
12. Vidal Martinez. Age 17. A good informant, but unfortunately
found dictation too tedious, and refused to continue in my
service. He could read and write a little.
13. Feyito Molina. Age 40. An intelligent and rather successful
farmer. I regretted that he had no time to dictate stories, for
he seemed to know many, and could dictate well.
14. Jesus Maria Morel. Age 23. A sophisticated peasant, but good
informant. He knew many stories which his godmother used
to amuse him with.
15. Juan Peralta. Age 35. A worker on the new road between
Monte Cristi and Dajabon.
16. Lucas Porte. Age 19. Could write fairly well. His father kept a
store in Monte Cristi. He wrote 5 stories on his uncle's farm
between Monte Cristi and Guayubin, where he and his sister
were spending a few weeks.
17. Maria Porte. Age 26. Sister of the preceding informant. Could
read and write, though not as fluently as her brother. Her stories
were recorded phonetically.
18. Gumersindo Rodriguez. Age 15. Illiterate. Unsatisfactory
informant.
19. Marcelo Sabe. Age 17. Illiterate peasant. Rather backward.
20. Cosmo Sanchez. Age 15. Illiterate. Son of a farmer. Brother of
Senea.
21. Senea Sanchez. Age 18. Illiterate, but wide-awake. He knew
many riddles, and was instrumental in gathering on one farm a
large group of riddlers who added considerably to the
collection.
San Pedro de Macoris
22. Abel Alvarez. Age 20. Had attended school in the city. He wrote
7 stories which he remembered from his grandmother. The rest
of his family claimed to know no stories.
23. Jose Antonio Arias. Age 15. Illiterate farm boy. Insisted he
knew many stories, but they were mainly historical episodes,
one of which was "the discovery of a new world by a man named
Columbus".
24. Enrique Cairo. Age 24. A resident of San Pedro de Macoris.
Educated. Wrote in my presence a versions of the Seven-headed
Serpent as he remembered it from childhood.
25. Jorge Colon. Age 16. Worked in the kitchen in the hotel.
Illiterate, sophisticated, used rather good vocabulary.
26. Francisco Delgado. Age 40. A cab-driver. Illiterate, born and
brought up in a rural district.
27. Bienvenido Fabian. Age 17. Illiterate bootblack. Born near
Santiago de los Caballeros, but he had lived in several parts of