The Moon-Eyed People: Folk Tales from Welsh America

A mining settlement in Appalachia is described as being unfit for pigs to live in, Welsh weavers make cloth for enslaved people, a monster is defeated by a medicine-girl, a Welsh criminal marries an "Indian Princess," Lakota men who witnessed Wounded Knee re-enact the massacre in Cardiff, and all the while, mountain women practice Appalachian hoodoo, native healing, and Welsh witchcraft. These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native people who had long been living there, and those curious travelers who returned to find their roots in the old country. They were explorers, miners, dreamers, hobos, tourists, farmers, radicals, showmen, sailors, soldiers, witches, warriors, wolf-girls, poets, preachers, prospectors, political dissidents, social reformers, and wayfaring strangers. The Cherokee called them "The Moon-Eyed People."

Author: Peter Stevenson
Publisher: History Press
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780750991421
ISBN10: 0750991429
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology

About the Author
Peter Stevenson is a professional storyteller and illustrator, and is the organizer of Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival. He regularly does storytelling tours of North America and has told stories of Welsh America in Greenwich Village.