Title: The Conjure Wives

Title: The Conjure Wives Title Record # 1110337
Author: Frances G. Wickes
Date: 1921-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note:

Published in Wickes, ed., Happy Holidays, illus. Gertrude Kay (Rand McNally, 1921), p46-49; LCCN 21-5919 (viewed at HathiTrust)
That 1921 anthology contains several stories by Wickes and several adapted by Wickes, as credited in the table of contents and the interior headings, which sometimes differ. This story is the first in "Hallowe'en", 3rd of 17 book sections, where it begins under three headings (p46): • Hallowe'en // The Conjure Wives // Old Southern Tale The Contents gives this two-line listing: • The Conjure Wives. Old Southern Tale // Adapted by Frances G. Wickes
Listed in the 1936 anthology as "The Conjure Wives (tale from the USA's Old South)" or, more likely, with a stated origin such as "(Negro folktale)" that the reviewer at LibraryThing felt obliged to paraphrase.

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Ghosts and Goblins: Stories for Hallowe'en and Other Times	1936-08-20	ed. Wilhelmina Harper	E. P. Dutton		$2.00^?$: US dollar	271	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Arrow Book of Ghost Stories	1960-08-00	ed. Nora Kramer	Scholastic Book Services	TX232	$0.25^?$: US dollar	116	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	George Wilde
Arrow Book of Ghost Stories	1963-00-00	ed. Nora Kramer	Scholastic Book Services	TX232	$0.35^?$: US dollar	116	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	George Wilde
Ghosts and Goblins	1965-09-30	ed. Wilhelmina Harper	E. P. Dutton		$4.50^?$: US dollar	256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	William Wiesner
Arrow Book of Ghost Stories	1965-10-00	ed. Nora Kramer	Scholastic Book Services	TX232	$0.35^?$: US dollar	116	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	George Wilde
Spooks, Spooks, Spooks	1966-00-00	ed. Helen Hoke	Franklin Watts	0-531-01797-4	$3.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 213	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Arrow Book of Ghost Stories	1972-02-00	ed. Nora Kramer	Scholastic Book Services	TX232	$0.60^?$: US dollar	116	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	George Wilde
Ghosts and Goblins: Stories for Halloween	1973-12-00	ed. Wilhelmina Harper	E. P. Dutton	0-525-30516-5		251	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	William Wiesner
Spooks, Spooks, Spooks	date unknown	ed. Helen Hoke	Franklin Watts			x+ 213	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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