Green Hills of Magic

Green Hills of Magic
Author: Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081319492X

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In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories—never before published in book form—in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.

Green hills of magic

Green hills of magic
Author: Ruth A. Musick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1970
Genre: Tales
ISBN:

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Magical Mrs. Mable Comes to Green Hills

Magical Mrs. Mable Comes to Green Hills
Author: Trina Wyatt
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2008-09
Genre:
ISBN: 1438910150

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"Wow, Mrs. Mable, you're magical!" From the eyes of four year old Lynnie, the world of her nanny, Mrs. Mable, came alive the day she discovered that secret. This is a story based on the real life relationship of that little girl and her nanny, and so begins the exciting journey they would take together.

The Moon-Eyed People

The Moon-Eyed People
Author: Peter Stevenson
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0750992700

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A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an 'Indian Princess', Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff and, all the while, mountain women practise Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft. These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native and enslaved people who had long been living there, and those curious travellers who returned to find their roots in the old country. They were explorers, miners, dreamers, hobos, tourists, farmers, radicals, showmen, sailors, soldiers, witches, warriors, poets, preachers, prospectors, political dissidents, social reformers, and wayfaring strangers. The Cherokee called them: ' the Moon-Eyed People'.

Beyond the Green Hills

Beyond the Green Hills
Author: Anne Doughty
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0749017805

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The sequel to On a Clear Day, which continues the enchanting story of Clare Richardson; Clare, now aged 20 and blossoming into a beautiful young woman, is looking forward to her final year at university, and to the return of her childhood sweetheart Andrew to Ulster. After a happy summer together they become engaged, and the future looks bright. But when Clare and Andrew's romance ends in disappointment and shattered dreams, she determines to make a new life on her own. Following in the footsteps of so many of her fellow countrymen, she takes the Liverpool boat and from there goes to Paris. Life 'beyond the green hills' is exciting and stimulating, but it brings with it the realization that she will only ever be at home in her beloved Ireland.

The Nemesis

The Nemesis
Author: P. S. B. Conny
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2020-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1543706983

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The peace and tranquillity of Hallary, a magical and an Isolated Kingdom in the far corner of the Earth, was under attack. Men, women, children and livestock disappeared without a trace. Rumours spread that their neighbouring Kingdom was seized by a very powerful enemy that was unheard of. Hallary is the next target. Cabael, a wondering wizard arrived at Hallary just in time, he confirmed the enormity of this threat. The King of Hallary was at his wits ends. However, the wizard assured that there is hope. Unbeknown both the people of Hallary and to the enemy. Mythical creatures are still alive and thriving around Hallary. Wars and enmity in the past somehow caused these creatures to be suspicious and hate one another, and especially the humans. Unity of all these creatures is the only way to defeat the enemy. But who shall unite them??? Secretly, the wizard entrusted the task of resistance to a mysterious and shy young man. Cabael knew his heart, his promises made the reclusive man to come out of his shell. Armed with secret sacred power, the young man decided to do all the unthinkable to save his homeland.

The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
Author: Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-09-12
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0813128277

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" 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 bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.

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Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1922
Genre:
ISBN:

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Angeliad

Angeliad
Author: Surazeus Astarius
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2017-10-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1387283103

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Angeliad of Surazeus - Revelation of Angela presents 136,377 lines of verse in 1,346 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2001 to 2005.

The Reviewer

The Reviewer
Author: Emily Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1922
Genre: Literature
ISBN:

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