Kentucky Superstitions
| Author | : Daniel Lindsey Thomas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 1920 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Kentucky Superstitions
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Kentucky Folklore
| Author | : R. Gerald Alvey |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1989-08-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0813137780 |
" Thicker'n fiddlers in hell. Independent as a hog on ice. If a bride makes her own clothes, it's bad luck. It'll snow in May if it thunders in February. How's a hen on a fence like a penny? What's the reddest side of an apple? Learn what folklore and folk culture are and enjoy a generous helping of sayings, rhymes, songs, tall tales, superstitions and riddles from Kentucky.
The Encyclopedia of Superstitions
| Author | : Richard Webster |
| Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2012-09-08 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 0738725617 |
Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating, flickable encyclopedia of superstitions! Richard Webster presents over five hundred of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. Discover batty beliefs about baldness, beans, and the Bermuda Triangle, and peculiar practices regarding hiccups, hearses, and hunchbacks. From modern myths to centuries-old lore, The Encyclopedia of Superstitions offers a wealth of wonderfully weird beliefs on just about every topic you can imagine: Holidays Birth Death Weddings Colors Gemstones Trees Flowers Fairies Weather Numbers Animals Birds Insects Household Items Zodiac Signs Gambling The Human Body Food Praise: "[T]his reference makes for compulsive browsing."—Publishers Weekly
Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields
| Author | : Richard J. Callahan |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2008-11-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 025300070X |
Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to industrial coal mining as they draw upon religious idioms to negotiate changing patterns of life and work. He traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining, including the spaces and social structures of coal towns, the working bodies of miners, the anxieties of their families, and the struggle toward organized labor. Building on oral histories, folklore, folksongs, and vernacular forms of spirituality, this rich and engaging narrative recovers a social history of ordinary working people through religion.
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
| Author | : Kentucky Historical Society |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1046 |
| Release | : 1912 |
| Genre | : Kentucky |
| ISBN | : |
The Testimonies of Slaves
| Author | : Work Projects Administration |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 6001 |
| Release | : 2023-12-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Good Press presents to you this meticulously collection of hundreds of life stories, recorded interviews and incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from the American southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia
Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina
| Author | : Wayland D. Hand |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 726 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Folklore |
| ISBN | : 9780822302599 |
Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro
| Author | : Newbell Niles Puckett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 690 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : African Americans |
| ISBN | : |
The Harvest and the Reapers
| Author | : Kenneth Clarke |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2021-12-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0813189039 |
The oral tradition of Kentucky is one of the most rich and interesting in the nation and has attracted a number of outstanding men and women—scholars and writers, teachers and singers—who have devoted their energies to Kentucky's folk and their ways. Some have collected examples of the state's unique speech patterns and word usages. Others have recorded local place names and the legends that surround them, or the yarns and tall tales transmitted from one generation to the next. Musicians have sought the authentic mountain folk songs, both old and new, and gifted writers have woven details of their Kentucky upbringing into poems, novels, and stories. The Harvest and the Reapers illuminates the work of those who labor tirelessly to preserve Kentucky's oral history and traditions.
The Kentucky
| Author | : Thomas D. Clark |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2014-10-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813159423 |
From its origins in the Cumberland Mountains to its entry into the Ohio, the Kentucky River flows through two areas that have made Kentucky known throughout the world—the mountains in the eastern part of the state and the Bluegrass in its center. In The Kentucky, Thomas D. Clark paints a rich panorama of history and life along the river, peopled with the famous and infamous, ordinary folk and legendary characters. It is a canvas distinctly emblematic of the American experience. The Kentucky was first published in 1942 as part of the "Rivers of America" series and has long been out of print. Reissued in this new enlarged edition, it brings back to life a distinguished contribution to Kentuckiana and is itself a historical document. In his new conclusion for this edition, Dr. Clark discusses some of the tremendous changes that have taken place since the book's initial publication.
