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Book Synopsis The Legend of the Mountain Witch by : Linda C. Martin
Download or read book The Legend of the Mountain Witch written by Linda C. Martin and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of the Mountain Witch By: Linda C. Martin The Mountain Witch isn’t just any old witch. Her real name is Fern Golden, and she is the keeper of the forest. Fern Golden protects those that cannot protect themselves. She feeds all the little animals of the forest and cares for children who are hurt or need help. She plants the most beautiful flowers and sings songs with the birds.
Book Synopsis The Legend of the Mountain Witch by : LINDA. MARTIN
Download or read book The Legend of the Mountain Witch written by LINDA. MARTIN and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mountain Witch is a story of how the Witch teaches children to be good and kind.
Download or read book Yamamba written by Rebecca Copeland and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the fusion of mountains with the solitary old woman that produces such an enigmatic figure? And why does she still call to us in this modern, scientific era? Co-editors Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich first met the yamamba in the powerful short story “The Smile of the Mountain Witch” by acclaimed woman writer Ōba Minako. The story revealed the compelling way creative women can take charge of misogynistic tropes, invert them, and use them to tell new stories of female empowerment. This unique collection represents the creative and surprising ways artists and scholars from North America and Japan have encountered the yamamba.
Book Synopsis Witch of the Mountain by : Marcus C. Thomas
Download or read book Witch of the Mountain written by Marcus C. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of DeKalb County, Alabama Local Legend Nancy "Granny" Dollar. Dollar was a midwife, fortune-teller, granny witch, who lived near Mentone, Alabama on Lookout Mountain.
Book Synopsis Mountain Witches by : Noriko T. Reider
Download or read book Mountain Witches written by Noriko T. Reider and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present. In recent years yamauba have attracted much attention among scholars of women’s literature as women unconstrained by conformative norms or social expectations, but this is the first book to demonstrate how these figures contribute to folklore, Japanese studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. Situating the yamauba within the construct of yōkai and archetypes, Noriko T. Reider investigates the yamauba attributes through the examination of narratives including folktales, literary works, legends, modern fiction, manga, and anime. She traces the lineage of a yamauba image from the seventh-century text Kojiki to the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, and explores its emergence as well as its various, often conflicting, characteristics. Reider also examines the adaptation and re-creation of the prototype in diverse media such as modern fiction, film, manga, anime, and fashion in relation to the changing status of women in Japanese society. Offering a comprehensive overview of the development of the yamauba as a literary and mythic trope, Mountain Witches is a study of an archetype that endures in Japanese media and folklore. It will be valuable to students, scholars, and the general reader interested in folklore, Japanese literature, demonology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and the visual and performing arts.
Download or read book Devil House written by John Darnielle and published by MCD. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success—and a movie adaptation—to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected—back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is. Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.
Book Synopsis Waterless Mountain by : Laura Adams Armer
Download or read book Waterless Mountain written by Laura Adams Armer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.
Book Synopsis The Witch and the Magic Mountain by : Howard Goodall
Download or read book The Witch and the Magic Mountain written by Howard Goodall and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Legend of the Christmas Witch by : Aubrey Plaza
Download or read book The Legend of the Christmas Witch written by Aubrey Plaza and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza and creative partner Dan Murphy comes the long lost tale of the Christmas Witch, Santa Claus's much misunderstood twin sister. The perfect gift for the holiday season and beyond! Gather ‘round the fire to hear a Christmas legend that has never been told before...until now. Each year a mysterious figure sweeps into town, leaving behind strange gifts in the night. No, not Santa Claus, but his sister… The Christmas Witch. Her story begins many, many years ago when her brother was torn away from her as a child. Raised alone by a witch of the woods, Kristtörn's powers of magic grew, as did her temper. Determined to find her long lost twin, she set out on a perilous journey across oceans to find him. But what she found instead was a deep-seated fear of her powers and a confrontation that would leave the fate of Christmas hanging in the balance. From award-winning producer and actress Aubrey Plaza and her creative partner Dan Murphy comes a holiday story unlike any told before. With all the richness of classic folklore, they’ve woven a tale of bravery, love and magic. Whatever you thought you knew about Christmas…think again.
Book Synopsis Virginia Folk Legends by : Thomas E. Barden
Download or read book Virginia Folk Legends written by Thomas E. Barden and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of the project, these stories lay untouched in the libraries of the University of Virginia. Now, folklorist Thomas E. Barden brings to light these delightful tales, most of which have never been in print. Virginia Folk Legends presents the first valid published collection of Virginia folk legends and is endorsed by the American Folklore Society.
Book Synopsis Witch of the Mountain by : Marcus C. Thomas
Download or read book Witch of the Mountain written by Marcus C. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She walked for miles alone in the middle of the night, in the coldest of winter, to save a mother and her child. Using tools available in the Appalachian ground, she treated snakebites and gunshot wounds. She divined fortunes and guided thousands of hopeful tourists to hidden treasures. She shared her home and her heart with her neighbors and friends. This is the true story of Appalachian midwife and Cherokee conjurer Granny Dollar, who emerged from obscurity in 1923, appearing on the doorstep of a local boarding school on Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama. When she died in 1931, some claimed that she was 116 years old! In the past 90 years, her legend has grown to mythic proportions, but her real identity has remained unknown until this time. This book peels back that mystery and tells the story of the real woman who became Granny Dollar."--
Download or read book Granny Dollar written by Neal Wooten and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, a one hundred-year-old Indian woman fantastically emerged from the woods at the Masters School, a school for underprivileged children near what is now Desoto State Park on Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama. Her name was Nancy Emmaline Callahan Dollar. Recently widowed, she found herself homeless and in need for the first time in her life. A rugged and stout Cherokee standing six feet tall with a pipe clenched in her teeth and followed by a mongrel dog and six chickens, she was a sight for the kids to behold. They were mesmerized by her and immediately put her up in one of the empty cabins on the campus grounds and tended to her every need. When the owner of the school, Colonel Milford W. Howard, returned from California to find the old Indian woman there, he too soon fell under her spell. Granny Dollar, a term of endearment since she never had children, became a local legend and the favorite subject of journalists and writers for years to come. Most of the stories she told were the stuff of legends, like hiding out during the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians, bitten by poisonous snakes three times, and losing almost everything in the War Between the States. Other stories surrounding her might have been exaggerated, but one thing is certain, everyone who met her knew right away she was a walking monument of life and history.
Book Synopsis Ozark Superstitions by : Vance Randolph
Download or read book Ozark Superstitions written by Vance Randolph and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Anthology of a Childhood Dream by : Urbano Salvati
Download or read book Anthology of a Childhood Dream written by Urbano Salvati and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wanted to write and speak with the voice of a child, dream like a child dreams, and fantasize like only a child can.I wanted to search the world over and look for differences in the children's stories. I wanted transient time and spaces and to traverse a world that only children understand.I wanted to speak the language of children in many different languages.And so I did it, with my stories.But in so doing, I too became a child; and like a child have learned. The lesson? Ho! Ever so simple: I learned that it is in the fantastic world of a child's dream that we find our soul, the true and pristine meaning of the word love.Such is the beauty and simplicity to be found in Anthology of a Childhood Dream. Stories for adults to read with children, stories for children to read on their own. Born in Italy, Urbano Salvati now resides in Las Vegas and works as an executive chef in Portland, Oregon. He believes true happiness comes from love and from good food. "There is a certain magic about children's stories that I have I always loved. I have always dreamed of beautifully written proses that will elicit in readers all of the best that our heart can produce. I believe that there is beauty in simplicity: That inspiration is all around us. I also believe that the greatest teacher is history."Publisher's Website: http: //sbpra.com/UrbanoSalvati
Book Synopsis Witchcraft in North Carolina by : Tom Peete Cross
Download or read book Witchcraft in North Carolina written by Tom Peete Cross and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain Witch written by Felicia Andrews and published by Jove. This book was released on 1980 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Manjhi Moves a Mountain by : Nancy Churnin
Download or read book Manjhi Moves a Mountain written by Nancy Churnin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 20 years, Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit and determination to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. This inspirational story shows how everyone can make a difference if their heart is big enough. Full color.
