Haunted Flutes

Haunted Flutes

Author: Ethel Halstead

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9781300094357

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The idea for this story came from an article I read in an Albuquerque newspaper: The story in the newspaper was about a hiker finding the remains of a corpse on a desert in Cochise county Arizona. At the time I wondered why a reporter even bothered to write up the story because someone is always finding skeletons and decomposed bodies in isolated parts of dry and hot deserts. Many of the bodies are those of illegal aliens crossing into the states looking for work, and while that is a very sad thing, it surely is not a rare thing, nor does it make truly interesting reading. But there was a follow up story stating that the body had been identified as a young attorney from Manhattan who had lived with a life-long dream of being a rancher/cowboy and owning a ranch in the great American west. There was no indication of foul play, so the man had likely died from heat exhaustion or snakebite.


The Haunted Flute and Other Japanese Stories

The Haunted Flute and Other Japanese Stories

Author: Warwick Goble

Publisher: Gramercy

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780517122167

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A collection of traditional Japanese folktales, including "The Magic Teakettle", "Urashima", "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", and "Momotaro, Son of the Peach".


The Skeleton Flute

The Skeleton Flute

Author: Damara Allen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-08-27

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1665946601

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As Sam learns his parents are separating, a stranger offers him a magic flute that will grant his greatest desire, but soon Sam discovers that while it worked on his parents, his two siblings have disappeared, as if they never existed.


Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests

Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests

Author: David J. Buch

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0226078116

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Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.


Ghost Flute

Ghost Flute

Author: Kimberly Dean

Publisher: Tiger Eye Productions, LLC

Published: 2016-07-31

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13:

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The bad boy next door or a ghost lover from ages past? When Serena Little Feather returns to the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, she finds herself caught in a dangerous love triangle. Chayton Arrowhead is dark and sexy, but she’s been warned against him. Yet at night, she hears a flute playing behind her house. The music is haunting and seductive, rousing feelings of lust and need. Legend told of a Sioux warrior who’d lured many women with his flute music. The young brave had tossed his conquests aside until he’d been found dead with a knife in his stone heart. It was said that the brave’s spirit still roamed the countryside, playing his songs and looking for love. Every so often, a pretty girl responded. Right now, that pretty girl is Serena. With her body ablaze and her mind spinning, she must choose a lover to ease her restless nights. Will she fall for the hot-blooded outcast or submit to the erotic call of a ghost?