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Author : Emma Ollie Wyatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Negro Folklore from Alabama written by Emma Ollie Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Newbell Niles Puckett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro written by Newbell Niles Puckett and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Solomon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820316342
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Ghosts and Goosebumps written by Jack Solomon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and Goosebumps is a rich collection of folktales and superstitions that capture the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. In its pages one can glimpse the long-lost horse-and-buggy times, when people sat up all night with the dead and dying, hoed and handpicked cotton, drew water from wells, and met the devil rather regularly. The book is divided into three parts--tales, superstitions, and slave narratives. The spirits of treasure-keepers, poltergeists, murderers and the murdered, wicked men and good-men-and-true float through the book's first section. Sue Peacock, for example, recalls seeing the ghost of her brother, and E.C. Nevin describes a mysterious light in a swamp. In other tales, reports of supernatural experiences are proved to be rationally explicable--Lee Wilson's devil in the cemetery turns out to be a cow and chains rattling near New Tabernacle Church in Coffee County belong not to specters but to hogs. The superstitions are arranged according to subject and include such topics as love and marriage, weather and the seasons, wish making, bad luck, signs, and portents. Anonymous tellers confide that it is bad luck to carry ashes out after dark, to let a locust holler in your hand, to rock an empty rocking chair, to let your fishing pole cross someone else's, or to have a two-dollar bill (unless one corner has been removed). The slave narratives, selected from the Works Progress Administration Folklore Collection, are substantial and yield a fascinating view of nineteenth century African-American folk life, replete with sillies and lazy men, preachers and witches, brave little boys, and reluctant bridegrooms. Although the times and places have changed, the spirit of the folk is unaltered. Taken together, these folktales are marvelously diverse--by turns fearsome, fantastical, witty, ribald, charmingly innocent--showing people from all backgrounds, their endless vices and occasional virtues, their hopes, fears, and loves.
Author : Carl Lamson Carmer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Stars Fell on Alabama written by Carl Lamson Carmer and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shane Black
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440177767
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Spirits of Athens written by Shane Black and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Athens is a picturesque, quintessential southern town in north central Alabama, full of folklore and history. The town may also have more ghost stories per capita than any other town in the South. This book collects, for the first time, the best ghost stories that Athens has to offer. You'll read about: * the frenzied spirits that beat on the windows of town square buildings in their attempt to escape an 1893 inferno; * the phantom grandfather clock in the George S. Houston Library and House that chimes but cannot be found; * the lonely ghost of Founders Hall whose lantern light travels from window to window as she searches for her lost love; * the forlorn spirit of the Vasser-Lovvorn Home whose recurring screams from the attic pierce the night; * the ghost child of the Donnell House who was frightened to death by Union soldiers during the Civil War invasion of the town; * and many more.
Author : Sherman E. Pyatt
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dictionary and Catalog of African American Folklife of the South written by Sherman E. Pyatt and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that address various aspects of African American folklife.
Author : Ray Broadus Browne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Popular Beliefs and Practices from Alabama written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Higdon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239924
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Haunted Alabama Black Belt written by David Higdon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the ghosts that wander this historic stretch of the South . . . photos included. There is a place in Alabama, a region that stretches across its lower middle from Georgia to Mississippi. It is a place steeped in history—a place where a people were enslaved, a nation was broken, and a new dream of freedom was born. It is a place where the past is always near at hand. And sometimes, that past takes a moment to whisper in your ear. They call this place the Black Belt. From the Cato-Thorn House in Barbour County to the Snow Hill Institute in Wilcox County, Alabama’s Black Belt has a great number of restless spirits that still haunt it. Join paranormal researcher David Higdon and Bram Stoker Award nominee Brett Talley as they uncover the ghosts and hauntings of one of Alabama’s most historic areas.
Download or read book Alabama Folk Lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Lamson Carmer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stars Fell on Alabama written by Carl Lamson Carmer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Courlander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Negro Folk Music of Alabama written by Harold Courlander and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Washington Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Descriptive and Analytical Study of the American Negro Folktale written by Bessie Washington Jones and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081730813X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore written by Alan Brown and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alan Brown has done an excellent job of collecting ghostlore from throughout Alabama ... his book is the most important volume published to date on alabama ghost traditions". -- W.K. McNeil The Ozark Folk Center
Author : Gladys-Marie Fry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807849637
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Night Riders in Black Folk History written by Gladys-Marie Fry and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and after the days of slavery in the United States, one way in which slaveowners, overseers, and other whites sought to control the black population was to encourage and exploit a fear of the supernatural. By planting rumors of evil spirits, haunte
Author : Harold Courlander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Negro Folk Music of Alabama written by Harold Courlander and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Courlander
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ISBN 13 : 9781258341640
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Negro Songs from Alabama written by Harold Courlander and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia Pounds Brown
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Toting the Lead Row written by Virginia Pounds Brown and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You recall the expression 'toting the lead row', don't you? In chopping cotton or corn there is always a leader, one who can chop the fastest of them all. When he finishes his row, he goes back and helps the other choppers finish theirs. The one who totes the lead row takes the lead place in the next row."--Ruby Pickens Tartt As a young woman growing up in Livingston in the Black Belt region of Alabama, Ruby Pickens Tartt developed a keen interest in the stories, songs, and folklore of rural blacks. Born in 1880, this remarkable woman lived through 94 years of dramatic change for blacks and whites alike. She was certain that the very essence of her native Sumter County lay on the back roads, in the cabins hidden nearby, and with the black people who lived there. Their singing and their stories captivated her; the preservation of their heritage became life-long commitment. In her collection work, including service with the WPA Writers' Project, Ruby Pickens Tartt worked with and assisted other collectors of folklore, notably Carl Carmer and John Lomax; indeed, her Livingston home became a mecca for folklorists and writers. In helping them all, truly Mrs. Tartt was "toting the lead row". Toting the Lead Row is divided into two major parts. The first is biographical and told in detail is her work during the Depression with the Federal Writers' Project, collecting folk songs and life histories and gathering folklore. The second part contains selecting writings of Ruby Pickens Tartt: 18 life histories and stories and 12 slave narratives.
