Hoodoo-conjuration-witchcraft-rootwork
African AmericansAfro-AmericansIrishEnglishGerman
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He was an Anglican preacher who collected folklore and stories. He started to collect folk magic spells in Illinois where he lived and then worked his way through the South. He recorded these stories via an early recording device. The largest amount of information on Harry Middleton Hyatt can be found at http://www.luckymojo.com/hyatt.html.
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African AmericansAfro-AmericansIrishEnglishGermanEuropean
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Southern StatesSouthernStatesAlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisLouisianaMarylandMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth Carolina1930's
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Harry Middleton Hyatt
21 February 1896 – 17 December 1978
Harry Middleton Hyatt was an Anglican minister and amateur folklorist raised in Quincy, Illinois. He received his M.A. and D.D. at Kenyon College and Oxford University. He served as assistant rector at the Church of the Holy Spirit in New York City from 1951 to 1965. and returned to Quincy, Illinois after his retirement in 1965. His two major works in the the field of folklore were "Folklore From Adams County Illinois" (1935) and "Hoodoo - Conjuration - Witchcraft - Rootwork" (1970). In addition, Hyatt was also a genealogist who published two books on his own family, "The Millers of Millersburg Kentucky" (1929) and "Descendents of John Walton of Baltimore Co. Maryland and Harrison Co. K…
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