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Folktales from the Helotes Settlement /
The Texas Folklore Society has been publishing a regular volume of folklore research (our PTFS series) for the past several decades. Most of these books are what we call miscellanies, compilations of the works of multiple folklorists, and they feature articles on many types of lore. We've also...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | Edition: First. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / by Kenneth l. Untiedt
- Introduction and dedication
- The white chapel
- Hitzfelder
- Freddie at Maude's
- What toll road?
- Shavano
- The mobile market
- Stations of the Cross
- John Marnock's dog
- The other barber
- The dowser
- Spring
- By any other name
- Wayfaring strangers
- Charcoal City
- Cave dwellers
- Seabirds
- Chewing tobacco
- The natural cure
- Bird-boy
- Edwards Flat
- Daisy and the stork
- The Indian tree
- The Moeller-Marnock shootout (Marnock version)
- The culvert
- The devil in the outhouse
- The trophy buck
- Nomad
- Indian middens and graves
- Fools' gold
- The skeleton house
- Phantom cemetery
- Cisterns
- The wolf man
- The buzzard colony
- The rustler
- Snakes
- The invisible bootlegger(s)
- The devil's slide
- Lost gold
- The totem
- Postal service
- The merry-eye
- The barn ghost
- Lucy's treasures
- Murder I
- The white witch
- Murder II
- Artifacts
- Cleto
- Mr. Brauchle's school
- Scaring Indians
- The kid
- Sam's innocent heart
- July 4, 1976
- The fence
- The famous stew
- Our Lady of Zion
- Infant mortality
- Watermelons
- The name: a place with three mothers
- Lily's bottle
- St. Cecilia's eyes
- Story-teller
- The waltz contest
- Stringtown: an elegy.