Kentucky Folklore

Author : R. Gerald Alvey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137780
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Folklore written by R. Gerald Alvey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1989-08-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Thicker'n fiddlers in hell. Independent as a hog on ice. If a bride makes her own clothes, it's bad luck. It'll snow in May if it thunders in February. How's a hen on a fence like a penny? What's the reddest side of an apple? Learn what folklore and folk culture are and enjoy a generous helping of sayings, rhymes, songs, tall tales, superstitions and riddles from Kentucky.

Author : Mary Hamilton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813136008
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Folktales written by Mary Hamilton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies Kentucky storyteller Mary Hamilton narrates a range of stories with the voice and creativity only a master storyteller can evoke. Hamilton has perfected the art of entrancing an audience no matter the subject of her tales. Kentucky Folktales includes stories about Daniel Boone's ability to single-handedly kill a bear, a daughter who saves her father's land by outsmarting the king, and a girl who uses gingerbread to exact revenge on her evil stepmother, among many others. Hamilton ends each story with personal notes on important details of her storytelling craft, such as where she first heard the story, how it evolved through frequent re-tellings and reactions from audiences, and where the stories take place. Featuring tales and legends from all over the Bluegrass State, Kentucky Folktales captures the expression of Kentucky's storytelling tradition.

Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813109091
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Ghosts written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1993-11-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling of ghost tales of Kentucky, including details of architecture, geography and local culture.

Author : Leonard W. Roberts
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318763X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South from Hell-fer-Sartin written by Leonard W. Roberts and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties—probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America—Leonard W. Roberts recorded this rich collection more than three decades ago. To a people who, at that time, watched dancing hearth fires more often than television, the adventures of Jack in the land of witches and giants, monsters and beautiful princesses, provided first-class entertainment. Here are such old favorites as "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Golden Arm," retold in the idiom of the Kentucky mountains. Here are hauntingly beautiful cantes fables and earthy Irishman jokes. Here are encounters with Indians and marvelous hunting escapades. Roberts introduces his collection, first published in 1955, with a sympathetic description of the mountain way of life. He notes especially the bewildering and rapid changes that came to the Pine Mountain watershed in that decade as the highways and electric lines at last brought in a sophistication that preferred the soap opera to the folk tale. Although the stories Roberts recorded were still a firm part of folk tradition at the time, he believed that within a decade or two they would be forgotten—a prediction, sadly, by now no doubt fulfilled. Any lover of the vanishing art of tale telling will relish this rich treasury of folklore and humor. Full notes on sources, types, motifs, parallels, and possible origins of the tales make this collection valuable also for folklorists.

Author : Michael Paul Henson
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570721601
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy at Devil's Hollow written by Michael Paul Henson and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of Kentucky ghost stories by acclaimed author Michael Paul Henson. He tells the bewildering tale of the tragedy at Devil’s Hollow in Kentucky. Henson has added a selection of other ghost stories and unexplained phenomena. The narratives contained in this volume are relatively unknown for two principal reasons—first, no one has previously taken the time to collect and compile them; second, these are stories generally limited to certain localities and have seldom been told outside the area of occurrence. While many stories may have been transmuted through the years of telling, the essence remains the same and the fascination and intrigue provoked by these tales of wonderment has not been diminished.

Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813138515
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kentucky native and folk studies scholar presents a collection of haunting legends and stories of spirits from across the Bluegrass State. William Lynwood Montell has spent years documenting Kentucky’s rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Many of the stories were collected from elders by younger generations and are recounted here exactly as they were gathered. This volume introduces spirits such as the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges invisibly through a house accompanied by the smell of roses, and the famed Gray Lady of Liberty Hall in Frankfort, a houseguest who never left. Montell tells the story of the ghost of Daniel Boone calling upon the statesman Henry Clay shortly before his death. He also recounts the tale of ghouls that haunt the rehearsal house of the band The Kentucky Headhunters. Readers will find accounts of haunted libraries, mansions, log cabins, bathrooms, furniture, hotels, and distilleries, as well as reports of eerie visitations from passed-on grandmothers, husbands, daughters, uncles, cousins, babies, slaves, Civil War soldiers, dogs, sheep, and even wildcats. Almost every county in Kentucky is represented. Though the book emphasizes the stories themselves, Montell offers an introduction discussing how local history, and local character, are communicated across the generations in these colorful stories.

Author : R. Gerald Alvey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813109027
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Folklore written by R. Gerald Alvey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1989-09-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers proverbs, folk expressions, riddles, customs, and superstitions

Author : Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187494
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Country written by Charles K. Wolfe and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky Country is a lively tour of the state's indigenous music, from the days of string bands through hillbilly, western swing, gospel, bluegrass, and honkey-tonk to through the Nashville Sound and beyond. Through personal interviews with many of the living legends of Kentucky music, Charles K. Wolfe illuminates a fascinating and important area of American culture. The list of country music stars who hail from Kentucky is a long and glittering one. Red Foley, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Tom T. Hall, the Judds, Dwight Yaokum, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, John Michael Montgomery, and Keith Whitely—all these and many others have called Kentucky home. Kentucky Country is the story of these stars and dozens more. It is also the story of many Kentucky musicians whose contributions have been little known or appreciated, and of those collectors, promoters, and entrepreneurs who have worked behind the scenes to bring Kentucky music to national attention.

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811743071
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Kentucky written by Alan Brown and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky's beauty is offset by a violent past of Indian wars, Civil War battles, and the tragic spirits from these conflicts.

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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Folklore Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: