American Myths and Legends, Volume 1

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Authors: Charles M. Skinner In Year : 1903

Book Language: English

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Preface
The Smoking Pine
Various Grindstone Hill
A Prophet of War
A Shot in the Moonlight
The Rescue of Molly Finney
Dead Man’s Ledge
Maine’s Woodland Terrors
The Great Stone Face
The Stream-Spirit's Wife
Stone Woman of Squam
The Confession of Hanserd Knollys
Peabody’s Leap
A Traveled Narrative
The Escaped Nun
The Long Sleep
Tom Dunn's Dance on Rag Rock
Woburn Ghost
How the Black Horse was Beaten
The Breaking of Plymouth Rock
The Swan of Light
The Love of a Praying Indian
The Gander’s Message
Case of the Brothers Brown
A Recovered Pocket-Book
The Walking Corpse of Malden
A Rollicking Ghost
Crystal Spring
The Cheapening of "Lucy Campbell"
Parson Hooker’s Gold Plate
The Evil Doing of Hobomoc
The Terrible Moonak
Pomperaug’s Love and Burial
Bloody-Heart Rhododendrons
Charlotte Temple
Jan Sol and the Monster
A Gift from St. Nicholas
Staten Island Dueling Ground
A Transferred Love
Ghosts of Dosoris
The Rock of Battle
The Non-Arrival of Fitz-William
Tragedy of the Secret Room
Who Was John Wallace?
The Hudson Spirits
Utsayantha
Uncle Sam
The Golden Tooth
The White Lady of Dobb’s Ferry
The Underground Station
The Indian Princess Apple
The Blue Skaneateles
The Onondaga Fairies
Greycourt’s Little History
The Good Bird Spirit
The Lovers United
Poke-o’-Moonshine
The Niagara Thunder God
The Death on the Palisades
Panther Chief of the Senecas
The Spooks of Schooley’s Mountain
The House of Misfortune
The Lonetown Mystery
The Leeds Devil
Rose O’Mally and Calixto
The Goblin Jesuit
A Kindness Repaid
The White Wolf of Venango
Wheeling Stogies
The Man with the Skates
The Death of Tammany
Hexenshdedl
A Philadelphia Excitement
The Belled Buzzard
Stick Pile Hill
The Picture Tree of Tenallytown
The Devil’s Race-Course
Spectres in Annapolis
Goggle-Eyed Jim
The Dismal Swamp Ship
Jimson Weed
White House
The Virginia Witch
The Virginia Cocktail
The Champions of Elk River
Cape Fear River Outlaws
Cain’s Mark
How Bill Stout Settled a Mortgage
Some Georgian Lycanthropy
The White Bride of St. Simon’s
The Drinking of Sweet Water
Nancy Hart
The Cells of Fort Marion
The Caloosahatchee She-Man
The Blood-Rose
St. Mary’s Paradise

American Myths and Legends is another collection of folklore from author Charles M. Skinner, whose exhaustive and expansive work in the field popularized many of these stories in the public imagination. It is intended as a follow-up work to his multivolume magnum opus, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land. This is the first of two volumes. - Summary by ChuckW