South Arkansas Folklore
Author: Environmental Systems Company. Employees
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Published: 1990
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Author: Environmental Systems Company. Employees
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Published: 1990
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William M. Clements
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781610750332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArkansas's rich folklore tradition is treated in this collection of eight essays covering the history of folklore research in the state, traditional songs and music, "tall tales," folk architecture, traditional foods and their preparation, superstitions and beliefs, and festivals and celebrations. Includes extensive bibliographies of reference works, and audio and video recordings.
Author: Deirdre Ann LaPin
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780935304398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vance Randolph
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-06-18
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1473388244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe people who live in the Ozark country of Missouri and Arkansas were, until very recently, the most deliberately unprogressive people in the United States. Descended from pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they made little contact with the outer world for more than a hundred years. They seem like foreigners to the average urban American, but nearly all of them come of British stock, and many families have lived in America since colonial days. Their material heirlooms are few, but like all isolated illiterates they have clung to the old songs and obsolete sayings and outworn customs of their ancestors. Sophisticated visitors sometimes regard the “hillbilly” as a simple child of nature, whose inmost thoughts and motivations may be read at a glance. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The hillman is secretive and sensitive beyond anything that the average city dweller can imagine, but he isn’t simple. His mind moves in a tremendously involved system of signs and omens and esoteric auguries. He has little interest in the mental procedure that the moderns call science, and his ways of arranging data and evaluating evidence are very different from those currently favored in the world beyond the hilltops. The Ozark hillfolk have often been described as the most superstitious people in America. It is true that some of them have retained certain ancient notions which have been discarded and forgotten in more progressive sections of the United States. It has been said that the Ozarker got his folklore from the Negro, but the fact is that Negroes were never numerous in the hill country, and there are many adults in the Ozarks today who have never even seen a Negro. Another view is that the hillman’s superstitions are largely of Indian origin, and there may be a measure of truth in this; the pioneers did mingle freely with the Indians, and some of our best Ozark families still boast of their Cherokee blood. My own feeling is that most of the hillman’s folk beliefs came with his ancestors from England or Scotland. I believe that a comparison of my material with that recorded by British antiquarians will substantiate this opinion.
Author: Peter F. Butcher
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. K. McNeil
Publisher: August House Publishers
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard M. Dorson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 0226158713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.
Author: Cynthia McRoy Carroll
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-02-10
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1439669007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe unspoiled, wooded landscape of the Arkansas Ozarks is steeped in traditions, where legend and myth are a huge part of history. During the Civil War, when Maranda Simmons boldly retrieved her stolen horses from a Union camp, soldiers believed she was a haint. When a cast-iron stove fell on Grace Sollis's baby, she gained superhuman strength, picked up the stove to free the baby and then ran circles around the log cabin until she came to her senses. After patiently waiting years for her promised dream house, Elise Quigley and her five children tore down their three-room shack and moved into the chicken house after Mr. Quigley left for work. Join author Cynthia Carroll, a descendant of six generations of Ozark natives, as she details the legends and lore of the Arkansas Ozarks.