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Virginia Folk Legends
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Virginia Folk Legends Paperback - 1991

by Thomas E. Barden


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What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of the project, these stories lay untouched in the libraries of the University of Virginia. Now, folklorist Thomas E. Barden brings to light these delightful tales, most of which have never been in print. Virginia Folk Legends presents the first valid published collection of Virginia folk legends and is endorsed by the American Folklore Society.

From the rear cover

This is a major regional collection of folklore which contributes not only to the scholarship of southern and Appalachian culture but also to the study of legend as a genre...It amounts to a folk history of Virginia. -Patrick B, . Mullen, Ohio State University

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  • Title Virginia Folk Legends
  • Author Thomas E. Barden
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 364
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date 1991-10-29
  • Features Annotated
  • ISBN 9780813913353 / 0813913357
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 6.04 x 1.03 in (22.66 x 15.34 x 2.62 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
  • Library of Congress subjects Legends - Virginia, Tales - Virginia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-12422
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.232

About the author

Thomas E. Barden, a native Virginian, is Professor of English at Toledo University. He is the author of The Travels of Peter Woodhouse: Memoir of an American Pioneer and was joint editor with Charles L. Perdue, Jr., and Robert K. Phillips of An Annotated Lsiting of Folklore Collected by the Virginia Writers Project and Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves (Virginia).

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