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Bookmark or Share- Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby - American FolkloreSo, Brer Fox decided to capture and kill Brer Rabbit if it was the last thing he ever did! He thought and he thought until he came up with a plan. He would make a tar baby!
- Br'er Rabbit - WikipediaBr'er Rabbit (/ ˈ b r ɛər / BRAIR; an abbreviation of Brother Rabbit, also spelled Brer Rabbit) is a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States and African descendants in the Caribbean, notably Afro-Bahamians and Turks and Caicos Islanders.
- Brer Rabbit | African-American, Trickster, Tales | BritannicaBrer Rabbit, trickster figure originating in African folklore and transmitted by African slaves to the New World, where it acquired attributes of similar native American tricksters (see trickster tale); Brer, or Brother, Rabbit was popularized in the United States in the stories of Joel Chandler
- Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear - WikipediaBr'er Fox and Br'er Bear (also spelled Brer Fox and Brer Bear, / ˈ b r ɛər /) are fictional characters from African-American oral traditions popular in the Southern United States.
- Brer, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English DictionaryThe earliest known use of the noun Brer is in the 1870s. OED's earliest evidence for Brer is from 1878, in the writing of Joel Chandler Harris. Brer is a variant or alteration of another lexical item.
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