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Author | : Vance Randolph |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473388244 |
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Vance Randolph |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486122964 |
Download Ozark Magic and Folklore Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Includes eye-opening information on yarb doctors, charms, spells, witches, ghosts, weather magic, crops and livestock, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, animals and plants, death and burial, and more.
Author | : Phillip W. Steele |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1983-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781455610068 |
Download Ozark Tales and Superstitions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A celebration of authentic Ozark lore with twenty-six tales from Native American legends to stories of outlaws, treasure, and the supernatural. The dramatic history and breathtaking landscape of the Ozarks have fostered a diverse and compelling tradition of storytelling. In Ozark Tales and Superstitions, Western author and historian Phillip Steele collects twenty-six stories that preserve and showcase the rich lore of this region. Here are tales of the supernatural including “Lady of the Valley” and “Monster of Peter Bottom Cave,” Indian legends such as “Legend of the War Eagle” and “Legend of Virgin’s Bluff,” treasure tales, outlaw stories, nature lore, plus a collection of superstitions, moon signs, weather signs, and regional cures and remedies.
Author | : Fern Angus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1993-12-01 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9780963791320 |
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Author | : Brandon Weston |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Magic |
ISBN | : 0738767255 |
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"Experience traditional hillfolk magic through the eyes of an authentic practitioner. This book provides lore, herbs, magical alignments, verbal charms, and more"--
Author | : Abby Burnett |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1626743428 |
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Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks—and, for that matter, people throughout the South—buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the deceased’s community. This process included preparation of the body for burial, making a wooden coffin, digging the grave, and overseeing the burial ceremony, as well as observing a wide variety of customs and superstitions. These traditions, especially in rural communities, remained the norm up through the end of World War II, after which a variety of factors, primarily the loss of manpower and the rise of the funeral industry, brought about the end of most customs. Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanished way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was expressed though obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles funeral industry professionals worked to convince the public of the need for their services.
Author | : Vance Randolph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780806115351 |
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Down in the Holler, first published in 1953, is a classic study of Ozark folklore. The University of Oklahoma Press is especially pleased to introduce such an invaluable and delightfully written book to a new generation of researchers and Americans entranced by the Ozarks and the folkways of the past. Until World War II the backwoodsmen living in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma were the most deliberately "unprogressive" people in the United States. The descendants of pioneers from the southern Appalachians, they changed their way of life very little during the whole span of the nineteenth century and were able to preserve their customs and traditions in an age of industrialism. When the many attractions of the Ozarks were discovered by "outlanders," the tourists--and television--reached the hinterlands, and the old patterns of speech and life began to fade. In this perceptive book, Vance Randolph, who first visited the Ozarks country in 1899, and his collaborator, George P. Wilson, recapture the speech of the people who lived "down in the holler." Randolph, closely identified with the region for many years, hunted possums with its people and shared their table at the House of Lords (a "kind of tavern" in Joplin). Through the years his hobby became a profession, and he spent years recording the various aspects of Ozark folk speech.
Author | : Brooks Blevins |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807853429 |
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In the first comprehensive social history of the Arkansas Ozarks from the early 19th century through the end of the 20th century, Blevins examines settlement patterns, farming, economics, class, and tourism. He also explores the development of conflicting images of the Ozarks as a timeless arcadia peopled by quaint, homespun characters or a backward region filled with hillbillies.
Author | : Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226158624 |
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Selection of tales, songs, riddles, proverbs and other items of folklore from seven regional cultures of the U.S.A.
Author | : James K. Kirkland |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1992-01-30 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 082238258X |
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Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III