Record details

• ISBN: 9781933202204
• ISBN: 1933202203
• Physical Description: xxii, 216 pages
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Publisher: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Speech of the Mountaineers 1 -- Dialect and Accent 3 -- Words and Expressions 6 -- Traditional Activities and Customs 19 -- Molasses Boiling 20 -- Bean Stringings and Apple Peelings 21 -- Corn Shuckin' 22 -- Wheat-threshing Time 22 -- Quilting Bee 23 -- "Literary" 24 -- Box Suppers and Pie Socials 24 -- Singing School 25 -- Halloween 26 -- Christmas 27 -- Wakes 29 -- Play Parties 30 -- Big Meetin' 31 -- Serenade for Newlyweds 32 -- Infare 32 -- Party Line 33 -- Ghostlore 35 -- Jim Barton's Fiddle 37 -- Ghost of Mrs. Green 44 -- Woman Who Came Crying 45 -- Passing Soul 46 -- Ghost of the Jilted Girl 47 -- Vengeful Ghost of the Murdered Girl 48 -- Ghost of the Peddler on Third Run 50 -- Collins Betts Peddler 51 -- Crying Infant 51 -- Headless Horseman of Powell Mountain 52 -- Shue Murder Case 53 -- Tragic Story of Ellen and Edward 54 -- Lover's Ghost 57 -- A Haunted House 58 -- Poltergeist of Petersburg 59 -- Mother-in-Law's Revenge 60 -- Ghost Rider 62 -- Ghost Rides With Her Lover 64 -- Dog Ghost of Peach Tree 65 -- Hitch-hiker 66 -- Phantom Wagon 67 -- Add's Image 68 -- Graveyard Ghost 69 -- Peddler's Ghost of Maysville 70 -- Ghosts of Echo Rock 71 -- Three Headless Ghosts 76 -- White Bird 77 -- Ghost of the Murdered Storekeeper 78 -- Ghost of the Mistreated Husband 79 -- Peddler's Ghost of Pendleton County 80 -- Old Haunted House of Nicholas County 81 -- A Mysterious Disappearance 82 -- Fireside Ghost 83 -- Chain 84 -- Haunted House at Renick 84 -- Stroop House Ghost 85 -- Informing Revenant 86 -- A Ghost Returns for His Head 87 -- Woman in White 88 -- Headless Rider of Spruce Lick 88 -- Headless Horseman of Braxton County 89 -- Ghost of Sally Robinson 90 -- Crying Baby 91 -- Ghost of the Card Player 91 -- An Errant Husband is Disciplined 92 -- Walking Ghost 93 -- Ghost of the Crites Mountain Schoolhouse 94 -- Hidden Treasure of Bear Fork 95 -- Wizard Clip 96 -- Folk Cures 100 -- Nature Lore and Rules for Farming 112 -- Superstitions 121 -- Witchcraft 135 -- White Art 139 -- Uncle Johnnie Bewitches the Cows 142 -- Uncle Johnnie Frightens Mrs. Dickens 144 -- Death and Burial of Uncle Johnnie 145 -- Black Cat Murders 146 -- Witch of Booger Hole 149 -- Sad Death of Mary Fisher 151 -- Witch Doctor's Silver Bullet 153 -- Violent Witch 154 -- Witch of Buck Run 155 -- Witchery of Mary Leadum 156 -- Mysterious Doe 157 -- A Witch's Spell Taken Off 158 -- Raccoon Witch 159 -- Witch's Funeral 160 -- Bewitched Pigs 160 -- Witch of Bull Run Meets Her Match 161 -- Witch Man of Calhoun County 162 -- Devil Takes His Victim 164 -- How Witches Got Milk and Butter 167 -- Milk Witch of Wood County 168 -- Gilmer County Witch Plays a Trick 168 -- Black Cat is Beaten 169 -- Another Way to Break a Spell 170 -- How to Kill a Witch 171 -- White Bear 171 -- A Young Man Fixes the Witch of Bull Run 174 -- Recollections of Witchcraft 175.

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