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Reportedly haunted locations in Kentucky (4 P) Pages in category "Kentucky folklore" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
[citation needed] This book was reviewed by Appalachian Journal [6] and Kentucky Folklore Record. [7] She also wrote a children's book, set in Kentucky during the American Civil War, The Adventure of Charlie and His Wheat-straw Hat: A Memorat illustrated by Mary Szilagyi (1986). which was reviewed by library journals [8] and the media.
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.
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.
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.
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
He also produced several volumes of folklore and oral history, which he collected himself from residents of the area centering on Letcher County and Harlan County, Kentucky. One of those oral history interviews in 1941 of a man who would have been about 90 years old, was the basis for the 1995 movie, Pharaoh's Army , starring Chris Cooper ...
In his 1987 guide to folktales, folklorist D. L. Ashliman classified the tale, according to the international Aarne-Thompson Index, as type AaTh 510B, "A King Tries To Marry His Daughter", thus related to French tale Donkeyskin, by Charles Perrault, and other variants, such as Allerleirauh, Cap O' Rushes, Mossycoat, The Bear, The She-Bear and The King who Wished to Marry his Daughter.
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