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Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic Gumbo Ya-Ya. Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs, Gumbo Ya-Ya chronicles the stories and legends that have emerged from the bayou country. Paperback.
The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic Gumbo Ya-Ya. Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs, Gumbo Ya-Ya chronicles the stories and legends that have emerged from the bayou country.
This is the ePub/eBook version of this title. This is not the print edition.
The art of storytelling is one of mankind’s oldest methods of keeping records. In Ozark Tales and Superstitions, Phillip Steele has collected 26 stories in an attempt to preserve the rich lore indigenous to the Ozark region.
Legends of Texas is as sizable and varied as the state itself, and J Frank Dobie, perhaps the West’s greatest historian, devoted years of his life to collecting and cataloguing its many stories.
There’s treasure buried beneath Texas soil or stowed in caves covered over by stones. It might be the mother lode that’s waiting to be uncovered or some Spanish pirate’s chest of jewels and doubloons. Nearby a ghostly figure walks the dunes, or is it just an illusion brought on by the approaching dust storm? Paperback.
There’s treasure buried beneath Texas soil or stowed in caves covered over by stones. It might be the mother lode that’s waiting to be uncovered or some Spanish pirate’s chest of jewels and doubloons. Nearby a ghostly figure walks the dunes, or is it just an illusion brought on by the approaching dust storm?
Born in 1794, Marie Laveau reigned as the undisputed Queen of the Voodoos for nearly a century. Her beauty and powers were legendary, and caused her to be the subject of wild gossip throughout her life. She passed on her secrets to a favorite daughter, who helped her dominate the underworld of voodoo in New Orleans. Paperback.