I don't think anyone in this thread has mentioned the work of Mary Alicia Owen, who collected African American, native American and gipsy folk tales in Missouri. Original copies of her best known book, 'Old Rabbit the Voodoo and other Sorcerers',published in London in 1893 and later the same year in New York as 'Voodoo Tales as told among the negroes of the Southwest', are not easy to find, but there is at least one recent reprint at a modest price.

Owens's stories are told in a rather tougher style, richer in dialect than Chandler Harris's and were probably, for that reason, less accessible to white readers at the time and, consequently, less widely read since, but her work deserves at least as much attention as his.