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Author Fee, Christopher

Title American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales : an Encyclopedia of American Folklore (3 Volumes)
Published Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (1265 pages)
Contents A4250C_9781610695688_Vol-1; Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Guide to Related Topics; Chronology; A; Academe, Legends of; Afghan American Folklore and Folktales; AIDS Harry and AIDS Mary; AIDS-Origins Traditions; Alamo; Algon and the Sky Girl; Alien Abduction Stories and UFOs; Alien Abduction Stories and UFOs-Primary Document Charles Hoy Fort, New Lands (1923); Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Alligators in the Sewers; America as the New Israel
America as the New Israel-Primary Document Uriah Smith, The Marvel of Nations (1887)American Cinderella Tales; American Folklore Society (AFS); Amityville Hauntings; Amityville Hauntings-Primary Document Pliny the Younger, an Ancient Haunted House Story (ca. 100 CE); Anansi/Anancy; Animal Bride; Animal Tales; Annie Christmas; Apotamkin; Appleseed, Johnny (1774-1845); Appleseed, Johnny-Primary Document W.D. Haley, "Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero" (1871); Area 51; Arrow Boy; Ashpet; Atlantis; Atlantis-Primary Document Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882)
Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770)Aunty Greenleaf and the White Deer; Axehandle Hound; Azeban; B; Babe the Blue Ox; Babes in the Woods; Baby Train; Badger and the Bear; Badman; Ballad; Ball-Tailed Cat; Banana, Coconut, and Twinkie; Barbara Allen; Barker, Ma (1873-1935); Barker, Ma-Primary Document Selection from FBI Report on Ma Barker (1936); Barton, Clara (1821-1912); Bass, Sam (1851-1878); Bass, Sam-Primary Document Charles J. Finger, "The Song of Sam Bass" (1927); Batman; Baykok; Beal, Barnabas Coffin "Tall Barney" (1835-1899); Bear Man of the Cherokee; Beauty and the Beast Folklore
Beaver, TonyBell Witch; Bellamy, Samuel "Black Sam" (1689-1717); Bermuda Triangle; Bermuda Triangle-Primary Document Disappearance of the USS Cyclops in the Bermuda Triangle (1918); Betsey and the Mole Skin; Bettelheim, Bruno (1903-1990); Big Bear of Arkansas; Big Water Snake of the Blackfoot; Bigfoot or Sasquatch; Bigfoot or Sasquatch-Primary Document Theodore Roosevelt, The Wilderness Hunter (1892); Bilderbergers; Bilderbergers-Primary Document Speech at the Anti-Masonic State Convention of Massachusetts (1829); Birth of Good and Evil, an Iroquois Myth; Black Aggie; Black Dog
Black Dog-Primary Document C.A. Fraser, "Scottish Myths from Ontario" (1893)Black Elk (1863-1950); Blessing Way; Bloody Mary or I Believe in Mary Worth; Blue Hen's Chicks; Blue Nun; Blue Rocks Folklore; Blues as Folklore; Boarhog for a Husband; Bok Kai Temple, Folktale, and Parade; Bokwewa; Boles, Charles E. "Black Bart" (1829-1888); Bonney, W illiam "Billy the Kid" (1859-1881); Bonnie and Clyde; Boo Hag; Boogie Man; Boone, Daniel (1734-1820); Borden, Lizzie (1860-1927); Bowleg Bill; Braucher Stories (Pennsylvania Dutch)
Notes Braucher Stories (Pennsylvania Dutch)-Primary Document John George Hohman, Powwows
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Subject Folklore -- United States -- Encyclopedias
Folklore
Manners and customs
SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias
Subject United States
Genre/Form Encyclopedias
Form Electronic book
Author Webb, Jeffrey
Fee, Christopher
ISBN 9781610695688
1610695682