Another collection of great relevance for our knowledge of the African contribution to the formation of the Brazilian oral tradition was published in 1928, in Rio de Janeiro, by Livraria Quaresma. The 75 Contos e fábulas populares da Babia collected by João da Silva Campos (1880-1940) were released as the second part of a book entitled $O$ folclore no Brasil, by the Brazilian researcher Basílio de Magalhães (1874-1957). According to de Magalhães' preface to the second edition, the first edition 'became outdated in the space of three months' and, since the tales were 'mostly from Afro-Brazilian sainetes', prompted 'a real productive flourishing in several different areas on the influence of the black element in our demo-psychology' (De Magalhães, 1939). The second edition was published in Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (volume 172, in 1939), by Imprensa Nacional. The third edition, edited by Aurelio Buarque de Hollanda (1910-1989), was also published in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, by O Cruzeiro. Camara Cascudo dedicated an entry in his Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro to João da Silva Campos, highlighting his qualities as a 'magnificent observer' who 'knew how to set down what he deemed worthy of record without deformation or reduction'. Cascudo reproduced nine narratives from da Silva Campos' collection in his books: five in Contos tradicionais do Brasil, three in Literatura oral no Brasil and one in Antologia do folclore brasileiro.  
Yeda Pessoa de Castro, in Contos populares da Babia: aspectos daobrade João da Silva Campos, observes that 'of the seventy-five folk tales collected by da Silva Campos, almost all of them have "Afro-Brazilian features" [...]' (Pessoa de Castro, 1978, p. 7). According to Pessoa de Castro, the African origins of these tales are  
'evident in both their thematic-formal and linguistic aspects'. On the thematicformal aspects, he observes that