A deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to Mississippi's thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations.
This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind.
By linking ancient places with present communities, Landscapes of Origin in the Americas explores how cultural landscapes sustain the continuity of origin narratives.
These folktales remain a powerful link between modern-day Spanish Jews and the Hispano-Jewish legacy-this collection passes along that legacy and provides a source of the customs and values of Sephardic Jews.
Brings contemporary Japanese literary and artistic fairy-tale adaptations into conversation with Euro-American feminist fairy-tale re-creation and scholarship.
Shen's study will be significant reading for teachers and students of folklore studies and for scholars of German, Eastern European, cultural, film, media, and gender studies.
The result is a work that greatly enriches our understanding of who told (and tells) marchen to whom, why and how they are told, and, perhaps most important, under what conditions.
A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.
Winner of the 2007 Gray's Lake FCBC Book AwardFor centuries, eyewitnesses around the worldfrom America to Africa, Argentina to Scotlandhave reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that surface briefly, only to quickly disappear.
Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented.
More than evoking chills down the spine and cautious glances over one's shoulder, spooky stories create lasting bonds and memories between friends and family.
"e;This wonderful collection of Kentucky ghost stories"e; is a treasure trove of history, heritage, and commentary on the oral tradition of storytelling (Elizabeth Tucker, author of Haunted Halls).
A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D.
"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields.
"e;A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?
