Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe

In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories-never before published in book form-in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later

Author: Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780813154213
ISBN10: 0813154219
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology

About the Author

Ruth Ann Musick, professor emeritus of English at Fairmont State College, West Virginia, is the author of The Telltale Lilac Bush.

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