Marie Laveau S Hot Pink Hearse
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Marie Laveau S Hot Pink Hearse
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Author : David W. Moore, III
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-10-12
Marie Laveau S Hot Pink Hearse written by David W. Moore, III and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-12 with Poetry categories.
Herein, you will delve into sublime explorations of self and how identity figures in the worldly volition of movement through existence. You will find poems kindled and sparked by parables and refined in the double edge of metaphorical flames. You will find writing that purrs and screams with personal howls that leap beyond supernatural into the deep psychological aspects of maladaptations (or what is considered as such) utilizing the oddest/loveliest dagger-sharp similes to stun the fabric of the audience psyche. David's poetry and prose are epic mini-plays with the theater being the imagination of the reader. The limits of the enchanting imagery and fleshed out states of existence have no bounds except those imposed by the audience.
Gumbo Ya Ya
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Author : Lyle Saxon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Gumbo Ya Ya written by Lyle Saxon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Tell My Horse
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Author : Zora Neale Hurston
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Tell My Horse written by Zora Neale Hurston and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Travel categories.
“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
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Author : Seth Grahame-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-04-29
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter written by Seth Grahame-Smith and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-29 with Fiction categories.
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness". "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an axe, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of America's greatest president for the first time - all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of the nation.
Spiritual Merchants
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Author : Carolyn Morrow Long
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2001
Spiritual Merchants written by Carolyn Morrow Long and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
They can be found along the side streets of many American cities: herb or candle shops catering to practitioners of Voodoo, hoodoo, Santería, and similar beliefs. Here one can purchase ritual items and raw materials for the fabrication of traditional charms, plus a variety of soaps, powders, and aromatic goods known in the trade as "spiritual products." For those seeking health or success, love or protection, these potions offer the power of the saints and the authority of the African gods. In Spiritual Merchants, Carolyn Morrow Long provides an inside look at the followers of African-based belief systems and the retailers and manufacturers who supply them. Traveling from New Orleans to New York, from Charleston to Los Angeles, she takes readers on a tour of these shops, examines the origins of the products, and profiles the merchants who sell them. Long describes the principles by which charms are thought to operate, how ingredients are chosen, and the uses to which they are put. She then explores the commodification of traditional charms and the evolution of the spiritual products industry--from small-scale mail order "doctors" and hoodoo drugstores to major manufacturers who market their products worldwide. She also offers an eye-opening look at how merchants who are not members of the culture entered the business through the manufacture of other goods such as toiletries, incense, and pharmaceuticals. Her narrative includes previously unpublished information on legendary Voodoo queens and hoodoo workers, as well as a case study of John the Conqueror root and its metamorphosis from spirit-embodying charm to commercial spiritual product. No other book deals in such detail with both the history and current practices of African-based belief systems in the United States and the evolution of the spiritual products industry. For students of folklore or anyone intrigued by the world of charms and candle shops, Spiritual Merchants examines the confluence of African and European religion in the Americas and provides a colorful introduction to a vibrant aspect of contemporary culture. The Author: Carolyn Morrow Long is a preservation specialist and conservator at the the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Funeral Festivals In America
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Author : Jacqueline S. Thursby
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Funeral Festivals In America written by Jacqueline S. Thursby and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Social Science categories.
When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how technical and extraordinarily creative human funerary practices would become in the ensuing decades. In Funeral Festivals in America, author Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals have evolved into affairs that help the living with the healing process. Thursby suggests that there is irony in the festivities surrounding death. The typical American response to death often develops into a celebration that reestablishes links or strengthens ties between family members and friends. The increasingly important funerary banquet, for example, honors an often well-lived life in order to help survivors accept the change that death brings and to provide healing fellowship. At such celebrations and other forms of the traditional wake, participants often use humor to add another dimension to expressing both the personality of the deceased and their ties to a particular ethnic heritage. In her research and interviews, Thursby discovered the paramount importance of food as part of the funeral ritual. During times of loss, individuals want to be consoled, and this is often accomplished through the preparation and consumption of nourishing, comforting foods. In the Intermountain West, Funeral Potatoes, a potato-cheese casserole, has become an expectation at funeral meals; Muslim families often bring honey flavored fruits and vegetables to the funeral table for their consoling familiarity; and many Mexican Americans continue the tradition of tamale making as a way to bring people together to talk, to share memories, and to simply enjoy being together. Funeral Festivals in America examines rituals for loved ones separated by death, frivolities surrounding death, funeral foods and feasts, post-funeral rites, and personalized memorials and grave markers. Thursby concludes that though Americans come from many different cultural traditions, they deal with death in a largely similar approach. They emphasize unity and embrace rites that soothe the distress of death as a way to heal and move forward.
Lackadaisy Volume 1
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Author : Tracy Butler
language : en
Publisher: Lackadaisy
Release Date : 2024-02-23
Lackadaisy Volume 1 written by Tracy Butler and has been published by Lackadaisy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-23 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
The Prohibition-era speakeasy Lackadaisy barely hangs on in 1927 St. Louis, fending off fellow gangsters at the end of a tommy gun. The cult classic, Eisner Award-nominated webcomic, finally available in a keepsake collected edition!
Slave Religion
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Author : Albert J. Raboteau
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-07
Slave Religion written by Albert J. Raboteau and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-07 with History categories.
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- some objective, some personal, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Slave Religion is a must-read for anyone wanting a full picture of this "invisible institution."
New Orleans Vampires History And Legend
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Author : Marita Woywod Crandle
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2017
New Orleans Vampires History And Legend written by Marita Woywod Crandle and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
New Orleans has a reputation as a home for creatures of the night. Popular books, movies and television shows have cemented the city's connection to vampires in public imagination. In the early days of Louisiana's colonization, rumors swirled about the fate of the Casket Girls, a group of mysterious maidens traveling to the New World from France with peculiar casket-shaped boxes. A charismatic man who moved to the French Quarter in the early 1900s eerily resembled a European aristocrat of one hundred years prior bearing the same name. A pair of brothers terrorized the town with their desire to feed on living human blood during the Great Depression. Marita Woywod Crandle investigates the origins of these legends so intricately woven through New Orleans's rich history.
Josie Arlington S Storyville The Life And Times Of A New Orleans Madam
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Author : Marita Woywod Crandle
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2020
Josie Arlington S Storyville The Life And Times Of A New Orleans Madam written by Marita Woywod Crandle and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
"At a time when women were denied opportunity, the lavish parlors of Storyville offered advancement for women who welcomed the vice. Mary Deubler, the Storyville madam who called herself Josie Arlington, more than welcomed carnal enterprise ... Her palace, the brothel she named the Arlington, cemented her legacy. An establishment filled with exotic girls who added a rare air of refinement to its proffered debauchery, it allowed Josie to become something even rarer for her time: a self-made woman of vast wealth and influence. Author Marita Woywod Crandle charts Josie's rise while painting a ... picture of New Orleans's red-light district"--Back cover.