Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia by Larry D. Thacker
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- Pub. Date: November 2006
- 225pp
- Sales Rank: 62,168
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2006
- Publisher: Overmountain Press
- Format: Paperback, 225pp
- Sales Rank: 62,168
- ISBN-13: 9781570723162
- ISBN: 1570723168
Synopsis
A near-obsessive pursuit of ghost stories and odd superstitions cranks up this serious study of Appalachian tales of the supernatural and their origin in both old-world customs and real historical events. An effort to preserve and record one aspect of a dying way of life, the book relies on interviews and historic documents to search for the facts behind local lore of murder, witchcraft, and weird hauntings. Several campfire-worthy ghost stories are recounted in their entirety—including "The Swinging Gate of Fern Lake Hollow"—and an unexpectedly large number of stories about aliens and UFOs provide an interesting comparison of three-century-old mysteries and those stirred up in comparatively recent times
Biography
Larry Thacker is dean of students at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee and a columnist for Cumberland Gap Trading Post and the Middlesborough Daily News. He lives in Harrogate, Tennessee.
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