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South from Hell-fer-Sartin : Kentucky mountain folk tales /
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 ta...
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Lexington :
University of Kentucky Press,
[1988]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; ANIMAL TALES; The Animals and the Robbers; ORDINARY TALES; Dirtybeard; Alice and Ben; Jack and His Dogs; Jack Outwits the Giants; Reptensil; The Little Blue Ball; The Bloody House; The Golden Ball; Jack and the Giant's Tasks; The Boy That Never Seen a Fraid; Johnny That Never Seen a Fraid; The Hainted House; The Boy That Couldn't Shiver and Shake; Merrywise; The Little Girl and the Giant; Nippy; The Old Woman Who Loved Mush; The Golden Arm; Big Black Toe; Rawhead and Bloodybones; Sleeping Beauty; Bully Bornes.
- The Enchanted CatThe Gold in the Chimley; John and the Wicked Princess; The Princess in the Donkey Skin; The Three Sisters; Jack and the Bull's Horns; Jack and the Bull Stripe; Big-Foot Town; Soldier of the Blue Light; The Magic Bag; Jack and the Miller's Daughter; The Rather Unusual Frog; The Skillful Brothers; The Silver Tree; The Dumb Supper; Jack and the Hidden Valley; The Little Ripen Pear; Dirty Jack; Rich Tom of Ireland; The Man and His Three Sons; Jack and His Master; The Witch Store Robber; Witch Magic; The Two Witches; The Witch Plot; Riding the Witch; Taking the Turkey.
- Taking the Big PossumBobtail and the Devil; JOKES AND ANECDOTES; Irishmen Squirrel Hunting; Irishmen Looking for Gold; Irishmen and the Red Pepper; Irishmen Deer Hunting; Irishman Eating Dungbeetles; Irishmen and the Hornets' Nest; The Irishman and the Pumpkin; The Irishman and the Watch; Irishman and the Watch; The Battle of the Boards; Irishman and the Turtle; Irishman Hunting for an American Man; Irishman and the Fiddler; Irishman Who Bought a Mule; The Lazy Irishman; The Irishman and His Shaved Mule; Dick and Dock; The Three Sillies; The Two Woodcutters; Big Fraid and Little Fraid.
- The Graveyard WagerThe Tailor and the Giants; The Gaping Woman; Casting Sheep's Eyes; The Soap Boy; The Devil and the Angel; Gabriel's Horn; Robert and the Peachtree; The Split Dog; Tall Hunting Tale; Jack on a Hunting Trip; Bears in a Holler Tree; Bragging Englishman; The Big Possum; The Swollen Hoe Handle; The Swollen Tree; My Pet Charlie; The CatsThat Clawed to Heaven; The Bad Bear; Greedy Fat Man; Coon Skin Huntin; Ground Sow Huntin; MYTHS AND LOCAL LEGENDS; Origin of Man; The Giant and the Chipmunk; King Richard of England; The Prince and the Monister; Indians Out of Fire.
- Tommy and the IndiansYansoo Po Shinie!; Lovers' Leap; Everlasting Water; The Three Lost Boys; The Last Chase; The Bear and the Baby; The Untold Secret; Rail-Splitting Sally; The Haunted Hotel Room; The Mystery of the Haunted Road; The Headless Ghost; The Falling Bars; The Returning Wife; The Jealous Wife; Spirit of the Wreck; Poor Man and His Witch Wife; Devil George; The Bewitched Cow; Travelers Dream; Watching Bulldog; Old Buttermilk John; Skeletons in the Basement; Guest Robbery; The Disguised Robber; The Fireproof Safe Business; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INFORMANTS; TYPE NUMBERS; MOTIF NUMBERS.