Ozark Tales and Superstitions
Title | Ozark Tales and Superstitions PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip W. Steele |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1983-05-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781455610068 |
A celebration of authentic Ozark lore with twenty-six tales from Native American legends to stories of outlaws, treasure, and the supernatural. The dramatic history and breathtaking landscape of the Ozarks have fostered a diverse and compelling tradition of storytelling. In Ozark Tales and Superstitions, Western author and historian Phillip Steele collects twenty-six stories that preserve and showcase the rich lore of this region. Here are tales of the supernatural including “Lady of the Valley” and “Monster of Peter Bottom Cave,” Indian legends such as “Legend of the War Eagle” and “Legend of Virgin’s Bluff,” treasure tales, outlaw stories, nature lore, plus a collection of superstitions, moon signs, weather signs, and regional cures and remedies.
Ozark Magic and Folklore
Title | Ozark Magic and Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | Vance Randolph |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2012-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0486122964 |
Includes eye-opening information on yarb doctors, charms, spells, witches, ghosts, weather magic, crops and livestock, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, animals and plants, death and burial, and more.
Ozark Superstitions
Title | Ozark Superstitions PDF eBook |
Author | Vance Randolph |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1473388244 |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
Title | Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales PDF eBook |
Author | VANCE RANDOLPH |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1976-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780252013645 |
The well-known Ozark folklorist gathers together bawdy tales, previously considered unprintable, that provide insight into the region's rich exotic narrative tradition.
Ozark Superstitions
Title | Ozark Superstitions PDF eBook |
Author | Fern Angus |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 37 |
Release | 1993-12-01 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN | 9780963791320 |
Down in the Holler
Title | Down in the Holler PDF eBook |
Author | Vance Randolph |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780806115351 |
Down in the Holler, first published in 1953, is a classic study of Ozark folklore. The University of Oklahoma Press is especially pleased to introduce such an invaluable and delightfully written book to a new generation of researchers and Americans entranced by the Ozarks and the folkways of the past. Until World War II the backwoodsmen living in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma were the most deliberately "unprogressive" people in the United States. The descendants of pioneers from the southern Appalachians, they changed their way of life very little during the whole span of the nineteenth century and were able to preserve their customs and traditions in an age of industrialism. When the many attractions of the Ozarks were discovered by "outlanders," the tourists--and television--reached the hinterlands, and the old patterns of speech and life began to fade. In this perceptive book, Vance Randolph, who first visited the Ozarks country in 1899, and his collaborator, George P. Wilson, recapture the speech of the people who lived "down in the holler." Randolph, closely identified with the region for many years, hunted possums with its people and shared their table at the House of Lords (a "kind of tavern" in Joplin). Through the years his hobby became a profession, and he spent years recording the various aspects of Ozark folk speech.
Haunted Ozarrk Battlefields
Title | Haunted Ozarrk Battlefields PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Cottrell |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781455614646 |
A look at various Civil War battlefields and the hauntings now reported from them.