Author: Herbert M. Halpert CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hoosier, Ozark, Western and Solkier Folk Tales
Author: Herbert M. Halpert CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ozark Tales and Superstitions
Author: Phillip W. SteelePublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455610068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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.
The Devil's Pretty Daughter, and Other Ozark Folk Tales
Author: Vance RandolphPublisher:
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Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Who Blowed Up the Church House? And Other Ozark Folk Tales
Author: Vance RandolphPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
Author: VANCE RANDOLPHPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252051033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman, the world's leading scholar of sexual and scatological humor, has called Randolph "the greatest and most successful field collector and regional folklorist that America ever had." In Legman's estimation, "We have no one else like him. He is a national treasure, like Mark Twain. Randolph's reputation rests on the massive accumulation of folksong, folktale, and ballad materials he collected during forty years of living and working in the Ozarks. Unfortunately, in the 1950s when Randolph published several collection of Ozark tales, the material in this volume was considered unprintable. Pissing in the Snow departs from the academic prudery that until recently has restricted the amount of bawdy folklore available for study. It presents a body of material that for twenty years has circulated only in manuscript or microfilm under its present title. When placed in their rightful context alongside Randolph's other collections of folk material, the bawdy tales help provide evidence of what Ozark hill people think about their own lives and language. As Rayna Green writes in her introduction, "The entire body of material . . . offers a picture of expressive behavior unparalleled by any other American region's or group's study." Hoffmann's annotations draw parallels between the erotic narrative tradition of the Ozarks and that in other parts of the country and the world, especially Europe.
Stiff as a Poker
Author: Vance RandolphPublisher:
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Category : Bawdy songs
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Ozark Tall Tales
Author: Richard YoungPublisher: August House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Authentic mountain tales such as hill folk have told for centuries, including such favorites as The One-Bullet Hunt, as well as jokes and pen-and-ink drawings by W.E. Hall.
Ozark Folklore
Author: Sticks in the Knapsack, and Other Ozark Folk Tales
Author: Tales of the Ozark Howler
Author: Hawthorne CornusPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781097616473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Tales of the Ozark Howler shares the folklore surrounding the legendary but mysterious dark beast that has long haunted the remote hills and hollers of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma: The Ozark Howler. This book collects folktales, eyewitness accounts, archival documents, and folk wisdom about the strange creature, a massive shaggy haired predator larger than a bear said to have glowing red eyes and a pair of large horns sprouting from the top of its head. This nightmare of the American South has haunted generations of families with its strange, mournful howls.Originally published in 1936 by a small, local printer shortly before the death of its author, Saul Ashton, Tales of the Ozark Howler was quickly pulled from distribution by family members who were scandalized by Ashton's interracial love affairs, atheism, and affiliation with the Communist Party. By suppressing the book, they hoped to end their embarrassment and restore the reputation of their conservative family.With the death of the last remaining members of this generation of the Ashton clan, Hawthorne Cornus was given permission to finally republish the short book, which remains unchanged from the original, except for a new foreword explaining the long struggle over its publication.With the distance of a few decades, the political, religious, racial, and cultural subtexts of this neglected work of American folklore have become clear. Is the monster the Howler itself, or the people who have pushed it to lurk in the margins? For those readers who are interested in the roots of Ozark culture, and for those who simply enjoy a frightening story, Tales of the Ozark Howler is sure to provide a pleasantly unusual reading experience.