The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives-the hopes, beliefs, and fears-of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and

Author: Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 12/31/1965
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.54w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780813101361
ISBN10: 0813101360
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Supernatural (Incl. Ghosts)
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,

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