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This book has been one of Kentucky's best known books for folk tales. In 1847, Theodore O'Hara, who was born in Danville, wrote one of America's best elegies. Regarding historical literature, the History of Kentucky was published in 1847 by Lewis Collins, and later expanded in 1874 by his son Richard Henry Collins. This work is a mine of ...
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. "American mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures ...
A video on "History and Mystery: The Folklore and Legends of the Bristol Hills" debuts Nov. 9 at Cumming Nature Center.
From Rafinesque's personal notes and a family legend, this Dr. Ward was tentatively identified in 1954 as Dr. John Russell Ward, a Kentucky physician who died in 1834, [4] but a potential Indiana candidate has been identified: Malthus A. Ward [5] (1794–1863, so not "late" in the sense of "deceased") who spent some of his early career in ...
The motif-index and the ATU indices are regarded as standard tools in the study of folklore. For example, folklorist Mary Beth Stein said that, "Together with Thompson's six-volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, with which it is cross-indexed, The Types of Folktale constitutes the most important reference work and research tool for comparative folk-tale analysis. [1]