
Green Hills of Magic
West Virginia Folktales from Europe
- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories—never before published in book form—in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Man against the Devil
- 2. Efforts to Outwit Death
- 3. Vampires and Werewolves
- 4. Evil Spirits, Curses, and Witchcraft
- 5. Dragons, Giants, and Other Monsters
- 6. Magic Objects, Elements, and Powers
- 7. Little People
- 8. Impossible Tasks and Friendly Counsel
- 9. Spirits of the Dead
- 10. Luck, Wealth, and Good Fortune
- 11. Religious Stories
- 12. Family Relations
- 13. Wise and Foolish Folk
- 14. Miscellaneous Tales
- Information about Some of the Contributors
- Notes
- Motif Index
- Index of Tale Types
- Bibliography