Download or read book Old and New Southern Appalachian Urban Legends Tall Tales Cryptids and Monsters written by Wilbur G Marsh and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folktales and urban legends of the southern Appalachian Mountains are unique, changing with the cultures that carried the tales to the foothills. This book examines the most popular and obscure of these stories, including often overlooked stories from the black community. Thanks to TikTok, message boards, podcasts, and YouTube videos, there's been renewed interest in certain indigenous Cherokee tales, which are included here, as well as some of the newer Appalachian folklore that have gained popularity due to these communities, including feral people, dogman, the Appalachian wendigo, and the Appalachian skinwalker. It doesn't, however, include infamous area-specific localized folklore such as the Grafton monster, the Flatwoods monster, the Loveland frogman, the Kelly-Hopkinsville goblins, the lizardman of Scape Ore Swamp, Mothman, etc. that didn't spread throughout the Smokey Mountains like many others.
Download or read book Old and New Southern Appalachian Urban Legends Tales and Monsters written by Wilbur G Marsh and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folktales and urban legends of the southern Appalachian Mountains are unique, changing with the cultures that carried the tales to the foothills. This book examines the most popular and more obscure of these stories, including often overlooked stories from the black community. Thanks to TikTok, message boards, podcasts, and YouTube videos, there's been renewed interest in certain indigenous Cherokee tales, which are included here, as well as some of the newer Appalachian folklore that have gained popularity due to these communities, including feral people, dogman, the Appalachian wendigo, and the Appalachian skinwalker. It doesn't, however, include localized folklore such as the Hopkinsville goblins, Loveland frogman, Flatwoods monster, mothman, Ohio grassman, sheepsquatch, thunderbirds, the moon-eyed people, snallygaster, dwayyo, Maryland goatman, lizardman of Scape Ore Swamp, etc., as those tales are area-specific, and don't spread throughout the Smokey Mountains like many others.
Download or read book Old and New Southern Appalachian Urban Legends Tales Cryptids and Monsters written by Justin H Guess and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folktales and urban legends of the southern Appalachian Mountains are unique, changing with the cultures that carried the tales to the foothills. This book examines the most popular and obscure of these stories, including often overlooked stories from the black community. Thanks to TikTok, message boards, podcasts, and YouTube videos, there's been renewed interest in certain indigenous Cherokee tales, which are included here, as well as some of the newer Appalachian folklore that have gained popularity due to these communities, including feral people, dogman, the Appalachian wendigo, and the Appalachian skinwalker. The gruesomely delightful images were created to intrigue younger readers and get them more involved in folklore, history, and Appalachian lore. It doesn't, however, include infamous area-specific localized folklore such as the Grafton monster, the Flatwoods monster, the Loveland frogman, the Kelly-Hopkinsville goblins, the lizardman of Scape Ore Swamp, Mothman, etc. that didn't spread throughout the Smokey Mountains like many others.
Download or read book Appalachian Folklore Unveiled written by Darkness Prevails and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told by master storytellers Darkness Prevails and Carman Carrion, Appalachian Folklore Unveiled unveils the mysteries behind Appalachian folklore, ghosts, creepy creatures, superstitions, and omens, walking the reader through a little-known land of magic and lore that stretches from Canada to the Southern United States.
Download or read book Appalachian Lore written by Philip Kent Church and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a blend of folktales, long-held traditions, historical research, firsthand accounts and superstitions from the people and places of the Appalachian Mountains. This includes age-old folk lore, modern tales and urban legends. Additionally, there is a section dedicated to the Native American lore of the Cherokee --- who once originated in the Appalachians.
Download or read book Monsters of West Virginia written by Visionary Living, Inc. and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the bizarre creatures that live in West Virginia.
Download or read book I Know What I Saw written by Linda S Godfrey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which came first--the monster or the myth? Journalist Linda Godfrey investigates present-day encounters with mysterious creatures of old. The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and more contemporary urban legend have long captured the popular imagination. While most people in America today relegate monsters to just that--our imaginations--we continue to be fascinated by the unknown. Linda Godfrey is one of the country's leading authorities on modern-day monsters and has interviewed countless eyewitnesses to strange phenomena. Monsters evolve, taking on both new and familiar forms over time and across cultures. In this well-researched book, Godfrey explores uncanny encounters with werewolves, goatmen, Bigfoot, and more. In more than twenty-five years spent "chasing" monsters, Godfrey has found that it often remains unclear whether the sightings are simply mistaken animals, hoaxes, or coincidence. When all the speculation is said and done, one question remains for fans and researchers: Are the creatures "real," or are they entirely "other-world?" Godfrey suspects that it isn't an either/or question--our reality operates on a scale from dense matter to realms the human eye cannot see. As Godfrey investigates unexplained phenomena, her search for answers will fascinate casual observers and enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book app UH latch UH Myths and Monsters written by Kristen Puckett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep within the foggy mountains and lush forests of Appalachia, mysterious creatures lurk. These abnormal, fantastical, and extraterrestrial beasts have inspired hundreds of stories throughout the region, some dating back to the early 19th century. Most of these legends are still recounted to this day. Storytelling is an essential aspect of Appalachian culture. ""App-UH-latch-UH: Myths and Monsters"" (named after the locals' pronunciation of the word) is a book dedicated to the culture, its people, and its traditions. App-UH-latch-UH is a whimsically illustrated book about monsters from the Appalachian region, but also serves as a highly-detailed coloring book built for hours of entertainment. View and learn about local monsters like Mothman, Wampus Cat, and the Snallygaster through 35 full-page coloring pages, 6 regional maps (featuring documented wildlife), 1 mini coloring page, and a short story about each in a softcover, 100 pg. book.
Download or read book The United States of Cryptids written by J. W. Ocker and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker uncovers the bizarre stories of these creatures and investigates the ways in which communities embrace and celebrate their local cryptids. Readers will learn about: • Batsquatch of Washington, a winged bigfoot that is said to have emerged from the eruption of Mount Saint Helens • Nain Rouge of Michigan, a fierce red goblin that has been spotted before every major city disaster in Detroit • Flatwoods Monster of West Virginia, a robotic extraterrestrial that crash-landed in rural Appalachia • Lizard Man of South Carolina, a reptilian mutant that attacked a teenager in the summer of 1988 • Glocester Ghoul of Rhode Island, a fire-breathing dragon that guards a hoard of pirate treasure • And many more! Whether you believe in bigfoot or not, this fully illustrated compendium is a fun, frightening, fascinating tour through American folklore and history, exploring the stories we tell about monsters and what those stories say about us.
Download or read book Appalachian Bestiary written by Gary Carden and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The folklore of ancient lands abounds with creatures that cannot be. Dragons, chimeras and griffons! Hippogriffs and minotaurs! Orcs and feathered serpents! Wondrous monsters that are the imaginative melding of disparate parts and talents. There are fish with golden eyes that prophesy; men with the bodies of horses that instruct young heroes, and birds that pursue and punish the guilty. Such beings are undoubtedly immortal, for they are still with us, passing from Parnaussus to Appalachia; from the forests of Germany to the Ozark hills..." -- back cover
Download or read book Voices of Our Mountain Kin written by Jerry Owen and published by Andborough Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of Our Mountain Kin is a collection of legends, folk tales and memories of our heritage set in the Blue Ridge, Balsam and Great Smoky Mountains. You'll enjoy wonderful old-time stories of mountain medicines and healing, moon-shining, ghosts, superstitions and faith, Civil War tragedies, pioneer living, love stories and much more
Download or read book Foxfire Story written by Foxfire Fund Inc and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for countless readers all around the world. In Foxfire Story, folklorist (and Foxfire director) T.J. Smith collects some of his favorite stories from the archives to illuminate the oral traditions that have been part of the culture of the mountains for centuries. Here are instances of mountain speech, proverbs and sayings, legends, folktales, anecdotes, songs, and pranks and jests, along with ghost tales and accounts of folk belief, as well as stories from half a dozen of the region’s finest storytellers. Through these examples, Smith examines the role storytelling plays in the Southern Appalachian community, identifying the rich traditions that can be found in the region and exploring how they convey a sense of place—and of identity.
Download or read book Cryptids written by J. Ryan Abney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a lover of American Folklore and urban legends I wanted to compile a collection of stories and other strange things that make America their home. Some of these stories are centuries old, others just decades, whatever the case may be they've taken their place in America's heart...and deepest fears.
Download or read book The Jersey Devil written by James F. McCloy and published by B B& A Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared officially dead, and scoffed as foolishness--none of which has had any effect on it or the people who persist in seeing it!This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge perioducally to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, leaving many communities in near-hysteria.The authors show that while a few appearances have been out-right fraud and others have likely been the result of mass hysteria, this creature has been seen by enough sane, sober, and responsible citizens to keep the possiblity of its existence alive and tantalizing.Over 50,000 in print
Download or read book Ozark Superstitions written by Vance Randolph and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who live in the Ozark country of Missouri and Arkansas were, until very recently, the most deliberately unprogressive people in the United States. Descended from pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they made little contact with the outer world for more than a hundred years. They seem like foreigners to the average urban American, but nearly all of them come of British stock, and many families have lived in America since colonial days. Their material heirlooms are few, but like all isolated illiterates they have clung to the old songs and obsolete sayings and outworn customs of their ancestors. Sophisticated visitors sometimes regard the “hillbilly” as a simple child of nature, whose inmost thoughts and motivations may be read at a glance. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The hillman is secretive and sensitive beyond anything that the average city dweller can imagine, but he isn’t simple. His mind moves in a tremendously involved system of signs and omens and esoteric auguries. He has little interest in the mental procedure that the moderns call science, and his ways of arranging data and evaluating evidence are very different from those currently favored in the world beyond the hilltops. The Ozark hillfolk have often been described as the most superstitious people in America. It is true that some of them have retained certain ancient notions which have been discarded and forgotten in more progressive sections of the United States. It has been said that the Ozarker got his folklore from the Negro, but the fact is that Negroes were never numerous in the hill country, and there are many adults in the Ozarks today who have never even seen a Negro. Another view is that the hillman’s superstitions are largely of Indian origin, and there may be a measure of truth in this; the pioneers did mingle freely with the Indians, and some of our best Ozark families still boast of their Cherokee blood. My own feeling is that most of the hillman’s folk beliefs came with his ancestors from England or Scotland. I believe that a comparison of my material with that recorded by British antiquarians will substantiate this opinion.
Download or read book American Folklores written by Omotayo Obi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Folklores: Part Two: Cryptids and Monsters in American Folklore" is a fascinating exploration of the mythical creatures that populate the folklore of America. The book delves into the origins and legends of a wide range of cryptids and monsters, including Mothman, Chupacabra, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster, among others. Each chapter of the book provides a detailed account of a different cryptid or monster, drawing on eyewitness accounts, historical records, and scientific research to uncover the truth behind the legends. The book also explores the cultural and social significance of these creatures, examining the ways in which they have become embedded in the American imagination and culture. From the eerie and mysterious Owlman of Cornwall, to the legendary beasts of the Ozarks and beyond, "American Folklores" is a captivating and thoughtprovoking look at the enduring power of folklore and myth. Whether you are a skeptic or a believer, this book is sure to captivate and intrigue you with its rich tales of monsters and mysteries from around the world
Download or read book The folklore of the Southern Appalachian region written by Shirley Martin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
