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Chargement... Devils, Ghosts and Witches: Occult Folklore of the Upper Ohio Valleypar George Swetnam
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First in a series (volume I) of folklore collected over 50 years by a Pittsburgh Press feature writer. You won't have a ghost of a chance in putting this book down fast! Exciting, mysterious tales of the metaphysical and supernatural world rarely published until now. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Some of my favorites are the "Millvale Apparition!" There was a terrible spectre that appeared while Maximilian Vanka was painting the murals of St. Nicholas Catholic Church! There's the legend of Joe Magarac, which came from "the unionizing efforts during the Homestead Strike of 1892." His ghost "appears in the midst of workmen taxed beyond their powers to overcome their difficulty." He's like a local Paul Bunyan! Then there's John Reddick and the demon Asmodeus. Braggadocios Reddick thought not even the Devil could catch him on his fine grey steed. But when the demon came to "extradite" his soul after death, he made sure to bury himself on the state line! Richard Slyhoff pulled a similar trick by having his grave under a 45° angle rock. He reasoned that "as the earth trembled" during Judgement Day, the rock would fall and the Devil would never get him. And of course there are the stories of Moll Derry that I've mentioned before, and witch hunter John Meyers of Warren County.
The reason this book got 3.5 stars, despite being a treasure trove of local lore, it left me wanting more. The author collected folklore for 34 years! I would've had the book separated into 2 (ghosts vs devils + witches) to fit more lore! I still highly recommend it though, especially combined with the works of Thomas White. ( )