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Author : Bonnie J. Krause
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Tall Tales, Ghosts and Omens from the Illinois Ozarks written by Bonnie J. Krause and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jens Lund
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150671
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Flatheads and Spooneys written by Jens Lund and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look -- historical and ethnographic -- at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.
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Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book Mid-America Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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Author : Kathryn Wrigley
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Directory of Illinois Oral History Resources written by Kathryn Wrigley and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vance Randolph
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Ozark Folklore written by Vance Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 198 pages
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Download or read book Overland Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Young
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ISBN 13 : 9780874834109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Ozark Ghost Stories written by Richard Young and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short horror stories from the Ozark region, told by performing storytellers from Branson, Missouri.
Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : Goldminds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781942905578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Ozark Tales of Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, and Monsters written by W. C. Jameson and published by Goldminds Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have been told around campfires and family gatherings and handed down through the generations. Now, for the first time, the best of these tales have been gathered together and presented in this volume. Award-winning author W.C. Jameson spent years collecting and researching these spellbinding yarns.
Author : Jo-Anne Christensen
Publisher : Lone Pine Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781551052397
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Ghost Stories of Illinois written by Jo-Anne Christensen and published by Lone Pine Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of stories of ghosts and mysterious hauntings throughout the state of Illinois including that of Abraham Lincoln in his Springfield home and the old state capitol.
Author : Gerald Nemanic
Publisher : Iowa City : University of Iowa Press
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Bibliographical Guide to Midwestern Literature written by Gerald Nemanic and published by Iowa City : University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 408 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.
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Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Great Lakes Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bud Steed
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502840950
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Ozarks Ghosts and Hauntings written by Bud Steed and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rocky hills and dark valleys of the Ozark Mountains hold many secrets for those bold enough to go in search of them. From the grieving ghost of the Ozark's Madonna to the dangerous apparition who haunts the Irish Wilderness, ghosts and legends abound in the Ozarks. A long settled land, the Ozarks has seen its fair share of tragedy and turmoil; from accidents to civil war battles the Ozarks holds more than her fair share of ghosts and hauntings, the stories told and retold down through the generations, a huge part of the hill country folklore. Join Para-historian and author Bud Steed as he retells some of the best ghost stories of the Missouri Ozarks and debunks a popular legend that has been told since the 1940's; a legend that has been the cause of several deaths itself. Take a ghostly trip through the communities and hills that make up the Missouri Ozark Mountains and experience the spirits and entities that call it home.
Author : Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813128277
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales written by Ruth Ann Musick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
Author : Jerome K. Jerome
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ISBN 13 : 9780194248112
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Faithful Ghost and Other Tall Tales written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
