The Folklore Of Maine
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The Folklore Of Maine
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Author : Horace P. Beck
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-01
The Folklore Of Maine written by Horace P. Beck and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with History categories.
“THIS is not a scholarly book in the pedantic sense nor is it intended to be one. Neither is it a complete collection of Maine folklore. Rather, it is a selection of tales, beliefs, superstitions, songs, and customs of people of English-speaking stock in Maine. It is a book that attempts to give illustrations of most of the major aspects of folklore that are, or have been within the last twenty years, extant in the state.”—Horace P. Beck, Introduction “There is no dearth of folklore in the little state of Maine. This book has placed some important examples of folklore into their historical contexts. A diversified sampling is given and we are surprised to learn how much of folklore is a disguise or an exaggeration of the real past.”—Kirkus Review
The Folklore Of Maine
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Author : Horace Palmer Beck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10-01
The Folklore Of Maine written by Horace Palmer Beck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with categories.
Northeast Folklore
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Author : Maine Folklife Center
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Northeast Folklore written by Maine Folklife Center and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Folklore categories.
Northeast Folklore
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Northeast Folklore written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Folklore categories.
Mythical Creatures Of Maine
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Author : Christopher Packard
language : en
Publisher: Down East Books
Release Date : 2021-09-01
Mythical Creatures Of Maine written by Christopher Packard and has been published by Down East Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Maine folklore is rich in tales of humans confronted by strange beasts, both wonderful and terrifying. The Abenaki, or “First People” had their tales of Glooskap and Pamola. Other tales came with European settlers; and others sprang up almost out of nothing around the fires of the logging camps. Based on meticulous research into these legends and folk tales, this volume is an encyclopedia, a field guide to the creatures that can be found in Maine and beyond. While the tales are whimsical and fun, they can also be considered serious scholarship.
Minstrelsy Of Maine
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Author : Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Minstrelsy Of Maine written by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with categories.
George Magoon And The Down East Game War
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Author : Edward D. Ives
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1993
George Magoon And The Down East Game War written by Edward D. Ives and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
George Magoon (1851-1929), a notorious moose and deer poacher in Maine, was the hero of scores of funny stories of how he outwitted game wardens. Preserving these oral histories, Edward Ives documents Magoon's life and explores his significance as a folk hero within the context of the conservation movement, the cult of the sportsman, and Maine's increasingly restrictive game laws. "A rich and subtle book, an important work by a major scholar. . . . It is a major contribution to folklore studies, and to history and American studies as well." -- Journal of American Folklore
Jonesport Raffle And Other Tales Of Maine Folklore
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Author : John Gould
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-28
Jonesport Raffle And Other Tales Of Maine Folklore written by John Gould and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-28 with Maine categories.
Beginning with the legendary story of a man in Jonesport (or was it Dexter or Waterford or Litchfield?) who raffled off his horse, which incidentally had been dead for some time, these twenty-nine tales cover the length and breadth of Maine and extend back to the sixteenth-century fishing camps that were set up a hundred years before Jamestown and Plymouth. Learn about the origin and history of "schoolmarms," along with other classic tales on Down East thrift, the evils of drink, Maine weather, lumbering folklore, and Paul Bunyan. These yarns often pull your leg, so keep a sharp eye! Such a collection makes for an encyclopedia of the great cultural achievement of Mainers, which has been compared to the Rosetta Stone and the birth of Chaucer. But essentially The Jonesport Raffle is a book of the highest humor that will be a source of infinite enjoyment.
A Sampler Of Songs And Stories From The Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
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Author : Joshua Parda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
A Sampler Of Songs And Stories From The Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History written by Joshua Parda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Folk songs categories.
Stories Of Maine
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Author : Sophia Swett
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-03-08
Stories Of Maine written by Sophia Swett and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-08 with History categories.
THE stories of the smallest, the least important, the most favored by fate of the United States of the New World, are well worth the telling. It may therefore be wondered that those of Maine - historically the beginning of New England, the scene of the bloodiest Indian wars, the place where different European nations contended most fiercely for supremacy, and whose records are so dramatic that they read like folklore and legend rather than veritable history - should have been so little told. Many of those that have been told are to be found in histories that are out of print and forgotten, and in the musty folios of the historical societies, where the young people, at least, seldom look. Some not yet, and perhaps never to be read, have been written by glaciers and fossil remains on rocky headlands and in obscure caves. In remote graveyards strange foreign names and inscriptions hint of others.