Green Hills of Magic
eBook - ePub

Green Hills of Magic

West Virginia Folktales from Europe

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Green Hills of Magic

West Virginia Folktales from Europe

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

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Man against the Devil
  10. 2. Efforts to Outwit Death
  11. 3. Vampires and Werewolves
  12. 4. Evil Spirits, Curses, and Witchcraft
  13. 5. Dragons, Giants, and Other Monsters
  14. 6. Magic Objects, Elements, and Powers
  15. 7. Little People
  16. 8. Impossible Tasks and Friendly Counsel
  17. 9. Spirits of the Dead
  18. 10. Luck, Wealth, and Good Fortune
  19. 11. Religious Stories
  20. 12. Family Relations
  21. 13. Wise and Foolish Folk
  22. 14. Miscellaneous Tales
  23. Information about Some of the Contributors
  24. Notes
  25. Motif Index
  26. Index of Tale Types
  27. Bibliography