Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Hoosier Folklore Bulletin
Author: Hoosier Folklore
Author: Bodies
Author: Gillian BennettPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 160473065X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem to come straight out of myths and folktales, but are presented as present day events. The difficulty is that it is not at all easy to decide whether these often disturbing stories should be treated as reliable or dismissed as fantasy. The legends explored in this book are some of the most bizarre, gruesome, and politically sensitive stories in the contemporary legend canon. At any moment a body may be invaded by noxious creatures, deliberately infected with deadly disease, or raided to provide donor organs for sick foreigners. These are "winter's tales," the stuff of nightmares. In this book Gillian Bennett traces the cultural history of six legends, well-known in Europe and America from medieval times to the present day. Appearing in broadsides, ballads, myths, ancient and modern legends, novels, plays, films, television shows, and stories told in the oral tradition, these legends are not just silly tales which can be dismissed as trivial and untrue. They reveal much about the concerns and fears of everyday life and demonstrate the limits of knowledge and power in the modern world.
Indiana Folklore
Author: Linda DéghPublisher:
ISBN: 9780253109866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Discusses old crafts and folk skills, from covered bridge building to quiltmaking, as well as the legends and lore of Indiana.
Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America
Author: Ernest W. BaughmanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111402770
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin
Author: Bulletin - Tennessee Folklore Society
Author: Tennessee Folklore SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Indiana History Bulletin
Author: The Folklore Historian
Author: Publisher: Simon Bronner
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore
Author: Newman Ivey WhitePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Frank C. Brown organized the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1913. Both Dr. Brown and the Society collected stores from individuals—Brown through his classes at Duke University and through his summer expeditions in the North Carolina mountains, and the Society by interviewing its members—and also levied on the previous collections made by friends and members of the Society. The result was a large mass of texts and notes assembled over a period of nearly forty years and covering every aspect of local tradition.