Subject: RE: from the classics

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:28:45 EDT

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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?)