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.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts - 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, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts write by Edna Barth. This book was released on 2000. Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Signs, Cures, & Witchery
Signs, Cures, & Witchery - 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 Signs, Cures, & Witchery write by Gerald Milnes. This book was released on 2007. Signs, Cures, & Witchery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set of religious beliefs and traditions based on a strong sense of folk spirituality. They practiced astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric thinking and left a legacy that may still be found in Appalachian folklore today. Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery; German Appalachian Folklore describes these various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world. By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia. Much has been written about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian people, but few studies have addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Signs, Cures, and Witchery sheds startling light on folk influences from Germany, making it a volume of tremendous value to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an interest in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.
Ghosts
Ghosts - 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 Ghosts write by Sonia Goldie. This book was released on 2013. Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In words and pictures, ghosts set the record straight about--ghosts.
Ghost Stories of the Appalachians
Ghost Stories of the Appalachians - 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 Ghost Stories of the Appalachians write by Susan Smitten. This book was released on 2009. Ghost Stories of the Appalachians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
