1 For these and many other accounts, see Vance Randolph, “Nakedness in Ozark Folk Belief,” JAF 66 (1953), 333-34.
2 Drake, Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 216.
3 Proverbs in this chapter, unless otherwise cited, are drawn from Newman Ivey White, ed., The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore (7 vols., Durham, 1952-64), I, 329-502.