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Title: Discussion of witches and little water medicine
Identifier(s): audio:6385; local: APSdigrec_3327; local: 03; local: 06
Description: In English only.; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Seneca Indians--Medicine; Seneca Indians--Folklore; Witchcraft
Date: 1963-06-20

Title: How the witch was captured
Identifier(s): audio:5148; APSdigrec_2893; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Source: Crawford, James M. Recordings of Native American languages, 1956-1973. (Mss.Rec.184);
Subject: Alabama language; Alabama Indians--Folklore; Witchcraft--Folklore
Date: 1972

Title: Account of witches in San Matias Petacaltepec
Identifier(s): audio:12609; APSdigrec_4823; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: "The same man describes all the witches that he can remember in San Matias and what happened to them." In Highland Chontal only.
Source: Turner, Paul R. Highland Chontal ethnohistory materials, 1968. (Mss.Rec.66); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.66-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Highland Chontal language; Chontal Indians; Witchcraft
Date: 1968-09-04

Title: Story about a man who killed his wife in 1905 [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:15554; APSdigrec_6079; 17; 02
Description: The second half of this program contains a discussion of witchcraft, including the consultant's explanation of who a person obtains powers for witching. Story told in English only.
Subject: Okanagan Indians--History; Murder--British Columbia; Witchcraft
Date: 1981-01

Title: Early Tuscarora superstitions concerning disease and magic
Identifier(s): audio:4326; APSdigrec_0102; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 05
Source: Wallace, Anthony F. C. Tuscarora material, [1948-1949]. (Mss.Rec.2);
Subject: Tuscarora language; Witchcraft--Folklore; Tuscarora Indians--Folklore; Monsters--Folklore; Lacrosse
Date: 1948-08-16

Title: Legend describing sorcery ("Bear walking")
Identifier(s): audio:9133; APSdigrec_0046; Series: 02; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 07
Description: A story describing sorcery practiced by one brother against another.; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Witchcraft--Folklore; Brothers--Folklore
Date: 1948-05-20

Title: The Fleet-footed Woman
Identifier(s): audio:9106; APSdigrec_0037; Series: 02; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 03
Description: A legend about the adventures of a man and a sorceress.; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Witchcraft--Folklore; Witches--Folklore
Date: 1948-05-05

Title: Legend describing Sorcery ("Bear Walking")
Identifier(s): audio:9108; APSdigrec_0031; Series: 02; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: "Narrator introduces her story with the words, 'Minawa dibadjmowin', 'Another legend' because she had previously told another legend about sorcery which was recorded on this same spool. The wire in this section of spool became so tangled, however that we were unable to save it. Victoria Cooper re-told this first story later on [APSdigrec_0584]"; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Witchcraft--Folklore; Brothers--Folklore
Date: 1948-05-04

Title: Early Tuscarora superstitions concerning disease and magic (free translation)
Identifier(s): audio:4336; APSdigrec_0103; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 06
Source: Wallace, Anthony F. C. Tuscarora material, [1948-1949]. (Mss.Rec.2);
Subject: Witchcraft--Folklore; Tuscarora Indians--Folklore; Monsters--Folklore; Lacrosse
Date: 1948-08-16

Title: Two texts in the Chimaltenango dialect of Mam
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_1807; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 07
Description: Northern Mam language, also known as Huehuetenango Mam. This program is a sample made by the collector of a larger set of material on the collector's original tapes. The full original program is described in the collector's documenation as follows: "5 minutes of Mam from a 32-year-old male speaker of Huehuetenango. he speaks first in Mam and then gives the Spanish equivalent. His texts discuss illness, bruheria, and medicinal plants all in relation to his village."; The name of the speaker is not identified in the collector's documentation.
Subject: Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages; Anthropological linguistics; Mam language; Mam Indians--Ethnobotany; Mam Indians--Medicine; Witchcraft--Guatemala; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1969

Title: A dialogue between two speakers of the Chinautlan dialect of Pocomam Central
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_1804; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 04
Description: Central Pokomam language. This program is a sample made by the collector of a larger set of material on the collector's original tapes. The full original program is described in the collector's documenation as follows: "A 1 hour 25 minute dialogue in Pocomam Central between [a 22 year-old female Ladina (mixed Spanish-Indian) of Chinautla] and a monolingual, approximately 32-year-old female of Chinautla. The conversation ranges over many topics including sorcery and disease, the Indian woman having had considerable first-hand experience as a vicitm of sorcery. This material is by far the most importnat and valuable item that I collected."; The name of the speaker is not identified in the collector's documentation.
Subject: Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages; Anthropological linguistics; Pokomam language; Pokomam Indians--Social life and customs; Pokomam Indians--Medicine; Witchcraft--Guatemala; Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Languages; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1969