Second printing stated on jacket. A classic study of voodoo life and esoteric superstitions in Haiti and Jamaica. Hurston convinced the Guggenheim Foundation to fund her research on this subject claiming that previous studies were woefully inadequate. The name Tell My Horse came from a phrase used in Voodoo ceremonies where the person becomes possessed by a spirit and is ridden like a horse by the spirit. The spirit might speak through the person, the horse being ridden, and say "Tell my horse..." Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) an African-American author who wrote stories, novels, anthropological folklore and an autobiography, was a major contributor to the 1920's and 1930's "Harlem Renaissance," and who also collaborated with the likes of Langston Hughes.