Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun... by Patricia H. Graham

Silver Bridge collapse, 1967, Point Pleasant, W. The Silver Bridge: The Classic Mothman Tale. Haunted Halls of Ivy: Ghosts of Southern Colleges and Universities . Appendices index: collectors, informants, counties, and places.īarefoot, Daniel W. 150 legends arranged under the following topics: Animals | Beginnings | The Civil War and Emancipation | Conjure and Witchcraft | Ghosts | Haunted Houses | Indians | Legendary People (from the African American files) | Legendary People (from the Anglo-American files) | Murder and Violence | Place-Names | Simon Kenton | Spirit Dogs | Supernatural Events | Treasure | Unusual Events. Gathered between 19 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project of the WPA. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. Publications of the American Folklore Society, New Series. “This simple system of folk magic has come down to modern Southern culture through the immigrants and natives who called these hills home.”īarden, Thomas E., ed. Staubs and Ditchwater: A Friendly and Useful Introduction to Hillfolks’ Hoodoo. Editor’s foreword by Karen Baldwin, 1-4.īallard, H. Special issue, North Carolina Folklore Journal 47 (Winter/Spring): 1-76. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 60 (no.1): 1-13.īallad of Frankie Silver: Reflections On a Murder. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Fall): 62-63.īall, Donald B. Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 8: 51-53.īaker, Amy. Mariah of the Spirits: And Other Southern Ghost Stories . Brief biography and tribute.Īustin, Sherry. Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 31, no. “Two Versions of ‘Rawhead and Bloodybones’ from the Farmer-Muncy Family”. 116 pp.Īnderson, Glen Muncy, and Jane Muncy Fugate, narrators Introduction by Carl Lindahl. Legends, Stories and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, Virginia. Shrewsbury, TL Trevaskis, Alethea Kontis, and Preston Halcomb.Īkers, Donna Gayle. Shipp, Maurice Broaddus, Robby Sparks, Ronald Kelly, Stephanie Lenz, Steven L. Dean, Geoffrey Girard, Jason Sizemore, Jeremy C. Twelve separately authored tales from Kentucky coal country, by the following authors: Debbie Kuhn, Earl P. Tales and the “history behind the haunts.”Īdkins, Mari, ed. Legends, ghosts and witches, superstitions, storytelling and jack tales, rhymes and riddlesĪbsher, R.

Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun... by Patricia H. Graham