County Folklore
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Author | : Charles James Billson |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2011-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1447491734 |
Part of the successful county folklore series - this book is packed full of superstitions, customs and old wives tales. A great book for anybody in or around Leicestershire and Rutland, or with an interest in the rich folklore of the United Kingdom. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's 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 | : Victoria Dutko Leonelli |
Publisher | : Shore Publications |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2009 |
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ISBN | : 9780979673016 |
This collection is the first in a proposed series of strange and incredible stories. The events described and recounted in these stories occurred in Fayette County, Pennsylvania . Author Victoria Dutko Leonelli has selected an assortment of tales and stories ranging from a long ago Shawnee tribe legend to a young child's encounter with ghosts in the 1980s. The original artwork and rare images are truly remarkable. These stories are being presented to you for your enjoyment. These tales will pique the imaginations of those who have a thirst for the eerie, the mysterious and the utterly inexplicable. But readers beware! Some of these stories may simply tickle your funny bone, but others will certainly tingle your spine.
Author | : Laurie Lacey |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1772823376 |
This volume offers a compilation of folklore material gathered from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, including data relating to traditional work patterns, education, values, beliefs, and songs.
Author | : Micheal Rivers |
Publisher | : Schiffer Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780764340062 |
The mountains of the Appalachia abound with tales of ghosts and mysterious places. Covering 16 counties, 40 spine-tingling stories will have you traveling the roads and paths of those who have walked before you and listening to their sorrowful tales. Along the way, visit The Hanging Tree in Cabarrus County, Battle Mansion in Buncombe County, Green River Plantation in Rutherford County, and the House on the Hill in Jackson County. Sit around the campfire and hear stories of lore about the legend of the Bald, the warning of the Hunter's Moon, and the disappearance of an entire hunting party. Superstition, folklore, and the paranormal keep the spirits alive in the Appalachian region. Will you be the next one to visit with the ghosts of Cherohala?
Author | : Folklore Society (Great Britain) |
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Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Vance Randolph |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2013-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473388244 |
The people who live in the Ozark country of Missouri and Arkansas were, until very recently, the most deliberately unprogressive people in the United States. Descended from pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they made little contact with the outer world for more than a hundred years. They seem like foreigners to the average urban American, but nearly all of them come of British stock, and many families have lived in America since colonial days. Their material heirlooms are few, but like all isolated illiterates they have clung to the old songs and obsolete sayings and outworn customs of their ancestors. Sophisticated visitors sometimes regard the “hillbilly” as a simple child of nature, whose inmost thoughts and motivations may be read at a glance. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The hillman is secretive and sensitive beyond anything that the average city dweller can imagine, but he isn’t simple. His mind moves in a tremendously involved system of signs and omens and esoteric auguries. He has little interest in the mental procedure that the moderns call science, and his ways of arranging data and evaluating evidence are very different from those currently favored in the world beyond the hilltops. The Ozark hillfolk have often been described as the most superstitious people in America. It is true that some of them have retained certain ancient notions which have been discarded and forgotten in more progressive sections of the United States. It has been said that the Ozarker got his folklore from the Negro, but the fact is that Negroes were never numerous in the hill country, and there are many adults in the Ozarks today who have never even seen a Negro. Another view is that the hillman’s superstitions are largely of Indian origin, and there may be a measure of truth in this; the pioneers did mingle freely with the Indians, and some of our best Ozark families still boast of their Cherokee blood. My own feeling is that most of the hillman’s folk beliefs came with his ancestors from England or Scotland. I believe that a comparison of my material with that recorded by British antiquarians will substantiate this opinion.
Author | : Michael Norman |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299285936 |
Grab a cozy blanket, light a few flickering candles, and enjoy the unnerving tales of Haunted Wisconsin. Gathered from personal interviews with credible eyewitnesses, on-site explorations, historical archives, newspaper reports, and other sources, these scores of reports date from Wisconsin’s early settlement days to recent inexplicable events. You’ll read about Wisconsin’s most famous haunted house, Summerwind; three Milwaukee men who encountered the beautiful ghost of National Avenue; a phantom basketball player; a spectral horse that signaled death in the pioneer era of the Wisconsin Dells; a poltergeist in St. Croix County who attracted a crowd of more than three hundred spectators; the Ridgeway Ghost who haunts the driftless valleys of southwestern Wisconsin; a swinging railroad lantern held by unseen hands; the Ghost Island of the Chippewa Flowage; and many others. Are ghosts real? That’s for you to decide! Now available in a Third Edition with updates and several new accounts, Haunted Wisconsin remains a favorite collection of unexplained midwestern tales, enjoyed by readers of all ages.
Author | : Donna Gayle Akers |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Abingdon (Va.) |
ISBN | : 9781595130068 |