Hundreds of superstitions and old wives tales from every corner of the world related to every aspect of pregnancy, birth, and baby care are collected in this volume. It covers folklore from determining baby's sex at conception to easing baby's teething pains.

A guide to childcare offers advice on bonding, feeding, childproofing, toy selection, communication, and infant development

With ideas to help families establish traditions and celebrate the universal joy of the birth of a baby, Baby Lore describes a wide range of charming customs from around the world. Handsomely designed and photographed, this book covers everything from preparation to naming the baby and announcing the birth, christenings, lullabies from all over the world--with sheet music--and birth celebration foods. 75 full-color photographs.

#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris returns to her Aurora Teagarden mystery series with a fabulous new book featuring the small-town Southern librarian.

Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of this deceptively simple story about a fox, a rabbit, and a doll made of tar and turpentine, tracing its history and its connections to slavery, colonialism, and global trade.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 IDEAS OF CULTURE -- Chapter 2 STATES OF NATURE -- Chapter 3 STICKING FAST -- Chapter 4 SAY MY NAME -- Chapter 5 THE BRIAR PATCH -- EPILOGUE -- TWELVE EXAMPLES -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Drawing on scientific, historical, cross-cultural, and personal perspectives, offers insight into how infants view and experience the world, in a work structured around four fundamental infant activities.

Contains a sample of the research conducted by members of the Texas Folklore Society at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings.

This new collection of eighty strange and unusual South Carolina legends is rooted in the state's deep history. Some originated centuries ago, such as the Agnes of Glasgow story in Camden and that of the ghostly dwarf jester Gauche, said to haunt a Beaufort mansion. Certain places hold secrets from different eras, including White Wolf Road in Blacksburg and the state's numerous historic cemeteries like the one at Salem Black River Church in Mayesville. These pages also contain simple explanations for local lore, like the Gullah tradition behind blue bottle trees that still decorate Carolina gardens today. These and many more crowd-pleasing yarns can be found in this volume from the desk of master storyteller, author and researcher Sherman Carmichael.