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South Africa

The Religious System of the Amazulu by Henry Callaway [1870] - 221 pages, 1.26M

Specimens of Bushman Folklore by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd [1911] - 123 pages, 281K

South African Folk-Tales by James A. Honey [1910] Kaffir (Xhosa) - 33 pages, 95K

Folk Tales by Georg McCall Theal [1886]

The Bantu

Myths and Legends of the Bantu by Alice Werner [1933] - 190 pages, 528K

West and Central Africa

Myths of Ífè by John Wyndham [1921] - 37 pages, 120K

Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort, by R. E. Dennett. [1898] - 94 pages, 225K

At the Back of the Black Man's Mind by R. E. Dennett. [1906] - 157 pages, 867K

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria By Elphinstone Dayrell, Introduction by Andrew Lang. [1910] - 67 pages, 170K

Fetichism in West Africa by Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau. [1904] - 219 pages, 593K

Hausa Folklore by Maalam Shaihu, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray. [1913] - 48 pages, 117K

Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People by D. Amaury Talbot. [1915] - 77 pages, 342K

The Yoruba Speaking Peoples by A.B. Ellis [1894] - 117 pages, 423K

Caribbean

Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith [1924] - 176 pages, 2.6M

Rastafarianism

The Kebra Nagast E.A. Wallis Budge, translator [1932].

The Wisdom of Rastafari

Vodun (Voodoo)

Last of the Voudoos by Lafcadio Hearn [1885] - 4 pages, 14K

New Orleans Superstitions by Lafcadio Hearn [1886] - 6 pages, 20K

Voodoo and Obeahs By Joseph J. Williams. New York, [1932].

Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica By Joseph J. Williams. New York, [1934].


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