Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land

A collection of folktales from different regions of the United States.

It is unthinkingly said and often, that America is not old enough to have developed a legendary era, for such an era grows backward as a nation grows forward. No little of the charm of European travel is ascribed to the glamour that history and fable have flung around old churches, castles, and the favored haunts of tourists, and the Rhine and Hudson are frequently compared, to the prejudice of the latter, not because its scenery lacks in loveliness or grandeur, but that its beauty has not been humanized by love of chivalry or faerie, as that of the older stream has been. Yet the record of our country's progress is of deep import, and as time goes on the figures seen against the morning twilight of our history will rise to more commanding stature, and the mists of legend will invest them with a softness or glory that shall make reverence for them spontaneous and deep. Washington hurling the stone across the Potomac may live as the Siegfried of some Western saga, and Franklin invoking the lightnings may be the Loki of our mythology. The bibliography of American legends is slight, and these tales have been gathered from sources the most diverse: records, histories, newspapers, magazines, oral narrative—in every case reconstructed. The pursuit of them has been so long that a claim may be set forth for some measure of completeness. This edition contains several hundred myths and legends from all parts of the country. Excerpt from Contents: Rip Van Winkle Catskill Gnomes The Catskill Witch The Revenge Of Shandaken Condemned To The Noose Big Indian The Baker's Dozen The Devil's Dance-Chamber. The Culprit Fay Pokepsie Dunderberg Anthony's Nose Moodua Creek A Trapper's Ghastly Vengeance The Vanderdecken Of Tappan Zee The Galloping Hessian Storm Ship Of The Hudson Why Spuyten Duyvil Is So Named The Ramapo Salamander Chief Croton The Retreat From Mahopac Niagara The Deformed Of Zoar Horseheads Kayuta And Waneta The Drop Star The Prophet Of Palmyra A Villain's Cremation The Monster Mosquitoe The Green Picture The Nuns Of Carthage The Skull In The Wall The Haunted Mill ... and hundred more ...

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land - Complete by Charles M. Skinner

Myths & Legends of our own Land - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Charles M. Skinner was a 19th century American writer best known for collecting and publishing myths, legends, and folklore.