![]() ![]() White Department of the Cleveland Public Library. Between 19, he made a number of tape recordings with a variety of local citizens, tapes which after his death were deposited in the John H. 3 During his later years, Puckett had vacationed in the Kawartha Lakes district of Ontario, near the city of Peterborough. 2 A native of Mississippi, he spent his teaching career at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was deeply involved in collecting the popular beliefs and superstitions of that state, and, in fact, was working on a definitive collection of Ohio folklore at the time of his death in 1967 at the age of sixty-nine. Newbell Niles Puckett was an American sociologist and folklorist, best known for his work in the field of southern black folklore. Canadian Journal for Traditional Music (1975) An Introduction to the Puckett Collection of Ontario Folklore ![]()
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