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Ghosts Of The Southern Mountains And Appalachia
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Book Synopsis Ghosts of the Southern Mountains and Appalachia by : Nancy Roberts
Download or read book Ghosts of the Southern Mountains and Appalachia written by Nancy Roberts and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural. This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who enjoyed her stories and articles, Roberts wrote her first book in 1958. Aptly called a "custodian of the twilight zone" by Southern Living magazine, Roberts based her suspenseful stories on interviews and her rich knowledge of American folklore. Her stories were always rooted in history, which earned her a certificate of commendation from the American Association of State and Local History for her books on the Carolinas and Appalachia.
Book Synopsis Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills by : James V. Burchill
Download or read book Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills written by James V. Burchill and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ghost stories and folklore from southern Appalachia.
Book Synopsis Witches, Ghosts, and Signs by : Patrick W. Gainer
Download or read book Witches, Ghosts, and Signs written by Patrick W. Gainer and published by Vandalia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians by the renowned West Virginia folklorist and former West Virginia University English professor Patrick W. Gainer not only highlights stories that both amuse and raise goosebumps, but also begins with a description of the people and culture of the state. Based on material Gainer collected from over fifty years of field research in West Virginia and the region, Witches, Ghosts, and Signs presents the rich heritage of the southern Appalachians in a way that has never been equaled. Strange and supernatural tales of ghosts, witches, hauntings, disappearances, and unexplained murders that have been passed down from generation to generation from as far back as the earliest settlers in the region are included in this collection that will send chills down the spine.
Book Synopsis Ghost Stories of the Appalachians by : Susan Smitten
Download or read book Ghost Stories of the Appalachians written by Susan Smitten and published by Ghost House Books. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mysterious shadows of the Appalachian Mountains, ghosts linger long after their bodies have been put to rest. This old, eroded mountain chain stretches from northern Alabama in the south all the way to Maine in the northeast. Veteran ghost writer Susan Smitten has written a spine-tingling collection of tales to thrill and entertain: - in Tryon, North Carolina, a woman's great-grandmother continues to watch over her family from beyond the grave - East Tennessee State University has been called the most haunted campus in the southern United States the old lunatic asylum in Weston, West Virginia, is a ghost hunter's paradise - old habits die hard--or don't die at all--for the founder of the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia ...and more, from all over the Appalachians.
Book Synopsis Ghost Tales & Superstitions of Southern Appalachian Mountains by : Tammy J. Poore
Download or read book Ghost Tales & Superstitions of Southern Appalachian Mountains written by Tammy J. Poore and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adults and children alike enjoy a good ghost tale. The Southern Mountain region is rich with haunted legends and superstitions. These short stories are previously unpublished and have been handed down for generations spanning nearly a century. * On a winding, dangerous road in Rich Mountain a lone driver offers a ride to a pale and sad young girl. He soon discovers that his silent passenger hasn't accompanied him to their destination, and he questions his sanity when he realizes she is gone. There is proof that she occupied the passenger seat, but where did she go? Hugh should consider himself lucky that she didn't stay along for the ride. * A coal miner seeks housing and employment in a small camp in West Virginia, but the only house available is known to be haunted. Previous residents report hearing wheezing and coughing from an unseen occupant hobbling on a cane throughout the house. Many families left the house to escape the haunt, but this miner doesn't believe in ghosts. Will disbelief be enough to do away with the ghostly legend, or will Jim actually discover that ghosts do exist? These and 10 more chilling stories of supernatural, superstition, ghosts and phantoms will incite you to consider the question do ghosts really exist? Can a spirit return from the grave to seek justice? Can a proclaimed fortune teller cast a spell of revenge? Can amulets and good luck charms change your destiny? Discover why the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains delight in sharing stories around campfires at stir offs, pie suppers, and during brush arbor. Take a step back in time, get a chill down your spine next to a warm fire in the dark of night while smelling sweet sugar molasses. Are you ready to wander into the woods alone? Or will the spirits of the ridge keep you at bay?
Book Synopsis Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills by : James V. Burchill
Download or read book Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills written by James V. Burchill and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ghost stories and folklore from southern Appalachia.
Book Synopsis Appalachia on Our Mind by : Henry D. Shapiro
Download or read book Appalachia on Our Mind written by Henry D. Shapiro and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to reconcile the "otherness" of Appalachia, as decribed by local-color writers, tourists, and home missionaries, with assumptions about the nature of America and American civilization. Between 1870 and 1900, it became clear that the existence of the "strange land and peculiar people" of the southern mountains challenged dominant notions about the basic homogeneity of the American people and the progress of the United States toward achiving a uniform national civilization. Some people attempted to explain Appalachian otherness as normal and natural -- no exception to the rule of progress. Others attempted the practical integration of Appalachia into America through philanthropic work. In the twentieth century, however, still other people began questioning their assumptions about the characteristics of American civilization itself, ultimately defining Appalachia as a region in a nation of regions and the mountaineers as a people in a nation of peoples. In his skillful examination of the "invention" of the idea of Appalachia and its impact on American thought and action during the early twentieth century, Mr. Shapiro analyzes the following: the "discovery" of Appalachia as a field for fiction by the local-color writers and as a field for benevolent work by the home missionaries of the northern Protestant churches; the emergence of the "problem" of Appalachia and attempts to solve it through explanation and social action; the articulation of a regionalist definition of Appalachia and the establishment of instituions that reinforced that definition; the impact of that regionalistic definition of Appalachia on the conduct of systematic benevolence, expecially in the context of the debate over child-labor restriction and the transformation of philanthropy into community work; and the attempt to discover the bases for an indigenous mountain culture in handicrafts, folksong, and folkdance.
Book Synopsis North Carolina Ghosts & Legends by : Nancy Roberts
Download or read book North Carolina Ghosts & Legends written by Nancy Roberts and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of tales was originally published as An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurences in the Old North State. To her group of classic stories, Mrs. Roberts has added three new tales about the Carolina coastal areas. The mountains, Piedmont, eastern Carolina, and the Outer Banks all provide settings for the unique and haunting accounts found in this book. Six of the stories take place in the Outer Banks—a particularly inspiring location, and the perfect place to meet the ghost on Blackbeard's last voyage.
Book Synopsis Appalachian Ghost Stories, and Other Tales by : James Gay Jones
Download or read book Appalachian Ghost Stories, and Other Tales written by James Gay Jones and published by McClain Printing Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of an introductory essay on the Appalachian setting & a choice selection of folk stories about ghosts, true experiences & tall tales. Ninth Printing 1995.
Download or read book Ghost Country written by Gregg Clark and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Country, Volume One, takes each reader by the hand and leads them into a dark room, a lonesome room, a room with something panting and pacing in the corner. No matter your age, don't discount things that go bump in the night. Prepare to be delighted by tales that send chills up your spine.
Book Synopsis Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina by : Randy Russell
Download or read book Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina written by Randy Russell and published by Blair. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, Randy Russell and his wife, Janet Barnett, present eighteen samples of western North Carolina folklore.
Book Synopsis Appalachia Mountain Folklore by : Micheal Rivers
Download or read book Appalachia Mountain Folklore written by Micheal Rivers and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Book Synopsis Haunted Valley, and More Folk Tales by : James Gay Jones
Download or read book Haunted Valley, and More Folk Tales written by James Gay Jones and published by McClain Printing Company. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of intriguing ghost stories & delightful folktales & legends of southern Appalachia. Most of these tales have authentic historical settings dating from the early days of settlement of this region to recent times.
Book Synopsis Specters and Spirits of the Appalachian Foothills by : James V. Burchill
Download or read book Specters and Spirits of the Appalachian Foothills written by James V. Burchill and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specters and Spirits of the Appalachian Foothillsallows you to hear the cries and meet the spirits that inhabit the mountains from northern Georgia to southern Virginia."
Book Synopsis Smoky Mountain Voices by : Harold F. Farwell
Download or read book Smoky Mountain Voices written by Harold F. Farwell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stingy man "won't drink branch water till there's a flood," and it is "a mighty triflin' sort o' man'd let either his dog or his woman starve." Some places are "so crowded you couldn't cuss a cat without gettin' fur in your mouth." For almost thirty years Horace Kephart collected sayings like these from his neighbors and friends in the area around Bryson City, North Carolina. Kephart, a librarian with an interest in languages and in the American Frontier, left his career and his family in midlife to settle in what was at the turn of the century the wilds of the Great Smokey Mountains. An assiduous collector and observer, he compiled twenty-six journals of notes on the folkways and speech of the Southern Appalachians at a time when the region was still largely isolated. Smokey Mountain Voices is a dictionary of Southern Appalachian speech based on Kephart's journals and publications; it is also a compendium of mountain lore. Harold Farwell and J. Karl Nicholas have compiled not only quaint and peculiar words, but jokes and comic exchanges. Many of the "ordinary" words that comprised an important part of the language of the mountaineers are preserved here thanks to Kephart's meticulous collecting. The editors have incorporated the original quotations with Kephart's definitions and explanations to create a rich source for the study of southern mountain speech. And within the echoes of these Smokey Mountain voices exists some of the joy and fullness of life that Horace Kephart shared and recorded. Smoky Mountain Voices will be of interest to dialectologists, historians of American English, students of regional literature, scholars of folk life, and laypersons interested in Southern Appalachia.
Book Synopsis Appalachian Magazine's Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales: A Collection of Memories & Commentaries from the Mountains of Appalachia by : Appalachian Magazine
Download or read book Appalachian Magazine's Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales: A Collection of Memories & Commentaries from the Mountains of Appalachia written by Appalachian Magazine and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English by : Michael B. Montgomery
Download or read book Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English written by Michael B. Montgomery and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 3218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.
