From pycyn@aol.com Sun Jul 22 07:29:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 22 Jul 2001 14:29:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 16430 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2001 14:28:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jul 2001 14:28:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r09.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.105) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Jul 2001 14:28:54 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id r.b0.17aa1230 (4159) for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:28:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:28:45 EDT Subject: RE: from the classics To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_b0.17aa1230.288c3d1d_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8849 --part1_b0.17aa1230.288c3d1d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Send finger faster than typing one) Nick: Joel Chandler Harris was in rural Georgia, I believe. Most to those stories have ancestors still told in the Bight of Benin (Rabbit and Leopard, usually). Neither of these tales is actually Br'er Rabbit but Liza and Rastus, an American version drawing on English originals (mainly, I think anti-Irish or Cockney) from at least the beginning of the 19th century (Gross's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue?) --part1_b0.17aa1230.288c3d1d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Send finger faster than typing one)
Nick:
<Where are BrerRabbit stories indigenous to again, anyway?>
Joel Chandler Harris was in rural Georgia, I believe.  Most to those stories
have ancestors still told in the Bight of Benin (Rabbit and Leopard,
usually).  Neither of these tales is actually Br'er Rabbit but Liza and
Rastus, an American version drawing on English originals (mainly, I think
anti-Irish or Cockney) from at least the beginning of the 19th century
(Gross's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue?) --part1_b0.17aa1230.288c3d1d_boundary--