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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1. Man against the Devil; 1. The Legend of Twardowski; 2. The Man Who Sold His Shadow; 3. Patience; 4. "El Caballo con Alas -- 5. General Staats and the Devil; 2. Efforts to Outwit Death; 6. The White Bird of Death; 7. The Godmother; 8. The Devil, Death, and Simon Greene; 9. Look in Your Own Backyard; 3. Vampires and Werewolves; 10. The Curse of the Vampire; 11. Footprints in the Snow; 12. Old Man Devaule; 13. Ivan; 14. The Lady Was a Werewolf; 15. The Werewolf of Campobello; 16. The White Wolf; 17. Ears Can Give You Away |
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18. The Secret19. Fatal Shortcut; 4. Evil Spirits, Curses, and Witchcraft; 20. Seven Bones; 21. Seven Devils; 22. Java's Curse; 5. Dragons, Giants, and Other Monsters; 23. The Story of Hedgy; 24. The Bad Boy Who Became a Knight; 25. The Two Brothers; 26. John and the Giants; 27. Smart Mrs. McCool; 28. Lucky and the Giant; 29. Mosquitoes; 6. Magic Objects, Elements, and Powers; 30. The Ring; 31. The Three Brothers; 32. The Bewitched Princess; 33. The Girl with No Hands; 34. The Switch, the Tablecloth, and the Harmonica; 35. The Bell of Justice; 36. The Dough Prince; 37. The Three Wishes |
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7. Little People38. The Leprechauns; 39. Peggy O'Leary and the Leprechauns; 40. Patrick O'Dea and the English; 41. Don Mike O'Dolan; 42. Friendship of the Wee People; 8. Impossible Tasks and Friendly Counsel; 43. Eleven Brothers and Eleven Sisters; 44. The Ax, the Spade, and the Walnut; 45. The Golden Duck; 46. The Boy Who Wouldn't Tell His Dream; 9. Spirits of the Dead; 47. The Invited Guest; 48. The Fate of Frank McKenna; 49. The Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Buried; 50. A Visit from the Dead; 10. Luck, Wealth, and Good Fortune; 51. King Neptune's Diamonds; 52. The Three Godfathers |
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53. Blind Wolf54. The Fortuneteller; 55. The Dream; 11. Religious Stories; 56. Christ and the Blacksmith; 57. The Boy Who Made a Trip to Hell; 58. He Walked on Earth; 59. The Beggar's Bread; 60. The King's Unhappy Son; 12. Family Relations; 61. The Snow Boy; 62. The Spendthrift Son; 63. The Rooster; 64. A Long Wait; 65. Wedding Gift; 13. Wise and Foolish Folk; 66. The Gypsy and the Bear; 67. The Schemer and the Flute; 68. The King's Son and the Poor Man's Daughter; 69. King Matt and the Wise Old Farmer; 70. A Foolish Young Man; 71. The Bet; 14. Miscellaneous Tales; 72. The Painted Priests |
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73. Pat and the Priest74. The Monks and the Donkey; 75. A Fish Story; 76. The Girl with a Beard; 77. The Butcher and the Cutter; 78. El Rabo -- 79. La Bruja -- Information about Some of the Contributors; Notes; Motif Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; W; X; Z; Index of Tale Types; Bibliography |
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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Tales -- Europe
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Tales -- West Virginia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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FICTION -- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
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Tales
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Europe
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West Virginia
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Musick, Archie (Archie Leroy), 1902-1978, illustrator
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| ISBN |
9780813164175 |
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0813164176 |
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