Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales write by Ruth Ann Musick. This book was released on 2014-04-23. Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mysterious vanishing hitchhikers, travelers beset by headless dogs, and long-dead moonshiners come alive in this collection of ninety-six Appalachian folktales. Set in coal mines and remote farm cabins, in hidden hollows and on mountain tops, some of these stories look back to the days when West Virginia was first settled; others reflect the rancor and brutality of the Civil War. But most of these tales guide us through the recent past of the uncommonly rich folk heritage of West Virginia. This ghostly collection, with source information and bold illustrations, will thrill longtime lovers of supernatural lore.
Coffin hollow and other ghost tales
Coffin hollow and other ghost tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coffin hollow and other ghost tales write by . This book was released on 1977. Coffin hollow and other ghost tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales write by Ruth Ann Musick. This book was released on 2010-09-12. The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. " 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.
Green Hills of Magic
Green Hills of Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Green Hills of Magic write by Ruth Ann Musick. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Green Hills of Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories -- never before published in book form -- in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.
Witches, Ghosts, and Signs
Witches, Ghosts, and Signs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witches, Ghosts, and Signs write by Patrick W. Gainer. This book was released on 2008. Witches, Ghosts, and Signs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
