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Storytellers: Folktales & Legends from the South by John A Burrison Publisher Comments Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse and inventive as the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Gumbo YA-YA: Folk Tales of Louisiana by Lyle Saxon Publisher Comments The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic Gumbo Ya-Ya. Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs, Gumbo Ya-Ya chronicles the stories and legends that have emergedfrom the bayou country... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments In this lively and engaging book, the nation's foremost expert on urban legends explores the spontaneous germination of these bizarre yet plausible narratives that play on the absurdities and prey on the fears of modern life.<P>Through voluminous... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Afro-American folktales :stories from Black traditions in the New World by Roger D Abrahams Publisher Comments From the canefileds of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" (Choice... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-499) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors by Joseph A Citro Publisher Comments New England's dark hills, fogbound coasts, and hidden villages have inspired generations of writers such as Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and King. But these authors' dark imaginings pale when compared to little-known but well-documented and true tales. In this... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries by Joseph Citro Publisher Comments Aimed at adults, teenagers, and tourists, this is the most comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories and strange-but-true facts ever assembled about Vermont and the surrounding areas of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States by R M Dorson Publisher Comments This anthology of regional folklore displays the abundance, humor, and continuing vigor of the American oral tradition. The collection explores rich and distinctive lore of Maine Down-Easters, Pennsylvania Dutchmen, Southern mountaineers, Louisiana... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee by Charles Edwin Price Publisher Comments No ghost in history could hold a candle to the infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee. Intelligent, crafty, violent -- the Bell Witch held the little town of Adams in a siege of terror for almost four years. Even today "Kate", as she is sometimes called, is... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe by Dell J Mccormick Synopsis Children of all ages will enjoy McCormick's tales of the adventures of Paul Bunyan, mythical giant lumberjack of the North Woods. Exciting and rollicking stories -- seventeen in all. A perpetual best-seller the country over, this book has sold more than... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ozark Magic and Folklore by Vance Randolph Publisher Comments This basic study by a renowned folklorist includes eye-opening information on yarb doctors, charms, spells, witches, ghosts, weather magic, crops and livestock, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, animals and plants, death and burial... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mexican Pet: More "New" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites by Jan Harold Brunvand Synopsis "A uniquely entertaining book: edifying scholarship, diverting social history."--Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments In a hilarious, insightful exploration of the "urban legend," the author debunks many sacred modern-day myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Reprint.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau Publisher Comments Award-winning French author Patrick Chamoiseau recreates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique. Folktales with a twist, fairy tales with attitude, these stories are a marvelous introduction to a world, both real and... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore by B A Botkin Publisher Comments This book contains a rich sampling of Civil War storytelling of all types -- personal narratives, anecdotes, hero tales, jests, strange tales, and fables. Culled from a wide variety of contemporary sources -- letters, diaries, newspapers, periodicals... (read more) List Price $9.98 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Civil War Ghost Stories and Legends by Nancy Roberts Publisher Comments A collection of tales of the blue and gray that enable the reader to visit famous Civil War battle sites.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure.-Chicago Tribune A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a friend of a friend... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a "friend of a friend." Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Urban Legends: 666 Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend...of a Friendb&of a Friend by Thomas J Craughwell Publisher Comments Combining Black Dog’s three very successful hardcover collections of “urban legends” (Alligators in the Sewer, The Baby on the Car Roof, and The Cat in the Dryer) into one stupendous volume, Urban Legends is the ultimate collection of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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