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The Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky is supposedly 8–10 ft (2.4–3.0 m) tall and weighs over 800 Ib (362.8 kg), the Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky also reportedly has black eyes that glow orange during the night and vocalizes using shouts and banging on trees, it shares the rest of its features with the aforementioned Bigfoot.
The grave of Mary Evelyn Ford. The Witch Child of Pilot's Knob is a Kentucky urban legend that tells of a five-year-old girl named Mary Evelyn Ford and her mother, Mary Louise Ford, being burned at the stake in the 1900s for practicing witchcraft in the town of Marion, Kentucky.
At age 70, Hiser published Quare Do's in Appalachia: East Kentucky Legends and Memorats (Pikeville, Kentucky: Pikeville College Press, 1978), a collection of folktales, ghost stories, and tales she collected. [3] [4] which was in its second printing by 1981. [5]
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American mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to America's most legendary stories and folktale, dating back to the late 1700s when the first colonists settled.
Since its original release in 1914 and 2023, The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians was re-published more than a dozen times under slightly different names [11] and sometimes with new content, such as A Brief Guide to Native American Myths and Legends, which contains commentary and a new introductory essay by Jon E. Lewis, [12] or ...
The legends have turned the area into a site for legend tripping. There have been a number of deaths and accidents at the trestle since its construction, despite the presence of an 8-foot (2.4 m) fence to keep thrill-seekers out. [2] Norfolk Southern train crossing Pope Lick trestle bridge
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest. A. C. McClurg, Chicago. (One myth, pp. 95–96.) Kroeber, A. L. 1907a. "The Yokuts Language of South Central California". University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 2:165-377. Berkeley. (Yaudanchi narratives, including Orpheus, pp. 255–277.)