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2 So Journal of American Folk-Lore.
about the devil. The devil's mother, or grandmother, often has the popular sympathy, and does not always appear as an evil-doing or as an ugly individual.
Enough has been given here to indicate the general character of the folk-lore in question, and it would be interesting to follow up in America among the people of German, English, and other nation- alities, the folk-thought concerned with " Gotts diiwel un sin gross- mudder."
Isabel Cushman Chamberlain.
Worcester, Mass.
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