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00:00:02 - Introduction

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00:00:58 - Walloon version of story-poem no. 1.

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00:02:15 - English translation of no. 1. Poem of man who drinks and learns his lesson the hard way. Source: Lucy Macaux.

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00:03:46 - Context of poem no. 1. When a child, he listened to the 'old people' who gathered at their farm. Still tells this poem occasionally at Belgian-American Club meetings.

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00:06:10 - Stories of 'devilish things' in English. People with pigs' heads. A mysterious threshing machine.

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00:07:34 - Religion tries to eliminate many of these beliefs.

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00:08:09 - Story told in Belgium and U.S.--English version no. 2. Barn that was never finished due to an agreement with the devil.

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00:11:02 - Chapels; some built because of these folk beliefs. Describes location of one on Hwy. 57.

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00:12:13 - Walloon version of story no. 2 (barn incident).

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00:16:57 - His memories of the older people's strong folk beliefs. His own feelings about it. It was once a remote area where few strangers came; they were sometimes seen as those who asked them to do the 'work of the devil.'

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00:21:53 - Story of how grandmother carried grain to Bay Settlement, wolves came after her (English). no. 3.

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00:23:52 - Incident no. 3 in Walloon.

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00:25:24 - Few stories of the fire of 1871 told in this area; probably because it wasn't hit badly.

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00:27:40 - Adele Brice. Learned second-hand about her because of the distance from Namur to Robinsonville.

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00:28:51 - Church in Namur first of the Norbertine Order. Calls 'the nest.' Tells the background of how priests came to this area. Some of the 'old people' still call the church at Namur 'Delwiche' (says the name of the village in Walloon).

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