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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
ISBN-13
9780813154213
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209364430
Product Key Features
Author
Archie L. Musick, Ruth Ann Musick
Publication Name
Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Mythology
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ruth Ann Musick, Archie L. Musick
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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