Folklore & Mythology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996426145Author Ken CoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Groundwaters Publishing, LLCPublisher Groundwaters Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 268g

In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print...

"More than corn grows tall on the American Plains. Here for the delectation of amateur folklorists is a collection of country whoppers from the frontier of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa-funny and fantastic yarns and anecdotes of pioneer vintage that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692773635Author Lynne CantwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hearth/MythPublisher Hearth/MythWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615394961Author Dennis W BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Library of Early Maine LiteraturePublisher Library of Early Maine...

In Walking Words world-renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write." These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the...

Collected here are the timeless Native American fables and legends handed down by noted Seneca anthropologist Arthur C. Parker. Growing up on the Cattaraugus Indian reservation in western New York, Parker knew the importance of the storyteller in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815601609Author Harold ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

This is a seminal study of the politics of culture. In the American imagination, 'Appalachia' designates more than a geographical region. It evokes fiddle tunes, patchwork quilts, split-rail fences, and all the other artifacts that decorate a cherished...

This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. It features stories told by...

The ""Jack"" known to all of us from ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight...

When Water Monster caused the Great Flood, the thirty-two clans of the First People left their pleasant lands and migrated to the present world through an enormous hollow reed. In this marvellous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many tales...

These fables from highland Peru, presented in both Quechua and English, capture a rich oral tradition and illustrate many universal human themes.Book InformationISBN 9780826321954Author Johnny PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of New...

Captures the wisdom, humor, and dignity of a remarkable mountain family Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's...

A legendary teacher's lifelong dedication to grassroots culture Archie Green - shipwright, folklorist, teacher, and lobbyist - is a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies. An inspiration to a generation of...

On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983436942Author Russ NoratelFormat PaperbackImprint Cosmic PantheonPublisher Cosmic PantheonWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983358305Author Kathleen Marie KarlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Anahata PublicationsPublisher Anahata PublicationsWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974216195Author Kathleen WallsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Global Authors PublishersPublisher Global Authors PublishersWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971303836Author Angelo I GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint H.M.I.PressPublisher H.M.I.PressWeight(grams) 189g

Every September, on the first night of the new moon, there are those who vow they see a flaming ship sail three times past the coast of Ocracoke. No matter the direction or velocity of the wind, this fiery vessel moves swiftly toward the northeast, they...

This title is 'Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine' Award Winner. 'I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882409665Author Mary Giraudo BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Alaska Northwest BooksPublisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing CoWeight(grams) 347g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865340299Author Alice BullockFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 77g

"A splendid collection from one of the nation's richest and most diverse traditional cultures.... "Florida Folktales" will appeal not only to scholars and lovers of folklore, but to anyone interested in the wellsprings of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974962832Author William J GrabowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Oblivion PressPublisher Oblivion PressWeight(grams) 245g

Hidden treasures dot the Big Bend country of far west Texas. From the Guadalupes to the Chinatis and the Chisos, lost mines and abandoned hoards lie like magnets, pulling at the treasure hunter's heart. Or so the stories go. But perhaps the stories are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882409658Author Mary Giraudo BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Alaska Northwest BooksPublisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing CoWeight(grams) 347g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452279384Author Jennifer HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 15mm

Remote and rugged, Michigan's Upper Peninsula (fondly known as ""the U.P."") has been home to a rich variety of indigenous peoples and Old World immigrants - a heritage deeply embedded in today's ""Yooper"" culture...

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977161454Author Lynn MichelsohnFormat PaperbackImprint Cleanan Press, Inc.Publisher Cleanan Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974239408Author David M SwingFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Avalon Grove PressPublisher Avalon Grove PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

Everyone worth his salt knows that a snappin' turtle won't let go until it thunders, but did you know that more than thirteen blackbirds on a fence with their tails to the north is a sure sign of a coming blue norther? Or that you should eat every grain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977418169Author Jerry OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Andborough Publishing, LLCPublisher Andborough Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977418121Author Jerry OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Andborough Publishing, LLCPublisher Andborough Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

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In 1963, Judge Charles Whedbee was asked to substitute on a Greenville, NC, morning show called Carolina Today while one of the program's regulars was in the hospital. Whedbee took the opportunity to tell some of the Outer Banks stories he'd heard during...

It is pleasant to stray in the Big Bend and Davis Mountains country of Far West Texas. The vast spaces, rugged terrain, and sparse settlement invite straying--and tale spinning. In Stray Tales of the Big Bend master folklorist Elton Miles continues to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890963609Author E. MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University PressWeight(grams) 600g