WVU Libraries: Appalachian Bibliography

Folklore

Anderson, Glen Muncy, and Jane Muncy Fugate, narrators; introduction by Carl Lindahl. 2001. “Two Versions of ‘Rawhead and Bloodybones’ from the Farmer-Muncy Family” [ Ky.; 1997 and 2000].Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 55-67.

Baker, Amy. 2002. “Mothman: Believe It or Not” [legendary creature; 1966 sightings; map].Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 8: 51-53.

Baker, Amy. 2002. “The Flatwoods Monster Goes to College” [Dr. Judy Byers, West Virginia Folklife Center, Fairmont State College].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Fall): 62-63.

Ball, Donald B. 2001. “Knoxville Folklore Miscellany” [Knox Co., Tenn.; summarizes 1975 field observations relating to folk life, expression, architecture, and death].Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 60 (no.1): 1-13.

Ballad of Frankie Silver: Reflections On a Murder. 2000. Special issue,North Carolina Folklore Journal 47 (Winter/Spring): 1-76. Editor’s foreword by Karen Baldwin, 1-4.

Barefoot, Daniel W. 2002.Haints of the Hills [ghost tales from 28 Western N.C. counties]. North Carolina’s Haunted Hundred [counties], vol. 3. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair. 130 pp.

Barefoot, Daniel W. 2004.Haunted Halls of Ivy: Ghosts of Southern Colleges and Universities [39 stories from as many schools]. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair. 193 pp.

Blythe, Hal, and Charlie Sweet. 2001.Bloody Ground: Stories of Mystery and Intrigue from Kentucky. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 300 pp.

Bronner, Simon J. 1996.Popularizing Pennsylvania: Henry W. Shoemaker and the Progressive Uses of Folklore and History [folklorist and story collector; Central and Western Pa.; 1910s to 1950s]. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Brown, Leona G. 1998. “The Ghosts of Stretcher’s Neck” [Fayette Co.; CSX railroad tunnel].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 64-67.

Brown-Hudson Folklore Award [N.C. state folklore society’s highest honor; list of winners, 1971-1996].North Carolina Folklore Journal 45 (Summer-Fall): 124-127.

Burchill, James V., and Linda J. Crider. 2002.Specters and Spirits of the Appalachian Foothills [63 haunted tales and legends]. Birmingham, Ala.: Rutledge Hill Press. 224 pp.

Burchill, James V., Linda J. Crider, and Peggy Kendrick, eds. 1997.The Cold, Cold Hand: More Ghosts and Haunts From the Appalachian Foothills [55 ghostly tales]. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press. 191 pp.

Byers, Judy P., John H. Randolph, and Noel W. Tenney. 1999.In the Mountain State: A West Virginia Folklore and Cultural Studies Curriculum [ten lesson plans covering: customs, material culture, language, sense of place, local history, nature lore, oral literature, folk arts, folk music, and written literature]. Charleston: West Virginia Humanities Council. 200 pp., approx.

Campbell, Marie. 2000 [1958].Tales from the Cloud Walking Country [78 Appalachian folktales]. Illustrated by Clare Leighton. Reprint. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 272 pp. Originally published, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Clines, Francis X. 2001. “In Search of the Old Masters of the Mountains” [Gerry Milnes of the Augusta Heritage Center, W.Va.].New York Times, 18 December, 16(A).

Coleman, Loren. 2002.Mothman and Other Curious Encounters [WV supernatural sightings; bibliography]. New York: Paraview Press. 205 pp.

Crandall, David. 2000. “Jack and the Signifying Machines” [new Jack tales evolve; rhizomatic traditions].Appalachian Heritage 28 (Winter): 29-41.

Davis, Diane. 2001. “Rhoda Ward” [18 th century, hanged witch’s curse on Simpson Creek Baptist church endures].Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 6: 31-34.

Davis, Donald. 1997 [1992].Southern Jack Tales [13 tales]. Little Rock: August House. 217 pp. Originally published asJack Always Seeks His Fortune.

Feather, Carl E. 2001. “Harpers Ferry Ghost Walk” [NPS volunteer guide Shirley Dougherty].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 60-65.

Feschino, Frank C., Jr. 2004.The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods Monster Revealed [ W.Va.; 1952 siting; UFO/alien encounter]. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. 352 pp.

Fine, Elizabeth C. 1999. “‘Lazy Jack’: Coding and Contextualizing Resistance in Appalachian Women’s Narratives.”NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 112-137.

Four Beech Mountain Jack Tales. 2002 [1978]. Edited by Thomas McGowan.North Carolina Folklore Journal 49 (Fall/Winter): 69-115. Reprinted from vol. 26, no. 2. Includes the following: Marshall Ward: “An Introduction to a Jack Tale,” “Jack and the Heifer Hide,” “Cat ‘n Mouse” (collected 1944); Ray Hicks: “Jack and the Three Steers” (collected 1963), “Whickity-Whack” (collected 1973-74).

Frankie Silver — A Full Text of the Ballad, from Bobbie McMillon. 2000.North Carolina Folklore Journal 47 (Winter/Spring): 5-7.

Fugate, Jane Muncy, narrator, and Carl Lindahl, introd. 2001. “Two Tellings of ‘Merrywise’: 1949 and 2000” [ Ky.].Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 39-54. Audio-video clips online at http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/multimedia.html.

Gavenda, Walter, and Michael T. Shoemaker. 2001.A Guide to Haunted West Virginia. Glen Ferris, W.Va.: Peter’s Creek Publishing. 278 pp.

Green, Archie. 2001.Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture [hillbilly music; folksinging]. Foreword by Robert Cantwell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 242 pp.

Griffith , Buddy. 2002. “The Legend of the Flatwoods Monster” [ Flatwoods, W.Va., supernatural creature; 1952 sightings].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Fall): 56-61.

Gruner, Elisabeth Rose. 2003. “Saving ‘Cinderella’: History and Story inAshpet andEver After [Ashpet: An American Cinderella (1989), film dir. Tom Davenport].Children’s Literature 31: 142-154.

Haley, Gail E. 2002 [1992].Mountain Jack Tales [ten tales for children; wood engravings]. Written and illustrated by the author. Reprint. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers. 131 pp. Originally published, New York: Dutton Children's Books.

Hanlon, Tina L. 2000. “Strong Women in Appalachian Folktales.”Lion and the Unicorn 24 (April): 225-246.

Harmon, Samuel, narrator, and Carl Lindahl, introd. 2001. “A Tale of Verbal Economy: ‘Stiff Dick’” [1939; Tenn.].Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 1-6.

Harvey, Todd. 2003. “Jack Tales and Their Tellers in the Archive of Folk Culture.”Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 25, no. 4 (Fall): 7-10. Online at http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/news-text-fall2003.html.

Heatwole, John L. 1995.Shenandoah Voices: Folklore, Legends, and Traditions of the Valley. Berryville, Va.: Rockbridge Publishing Company. 147 pp.

Hicks, Orville, and Thomas McGowan. 2003. “Remembering Ray Hicks” [1922-2003; brief tribute].North Carolina Folklore Journal 50, nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer - Fall/Winter): 12-17.

Hicks, Ray. 2000.The Jack Tales [juvenile audience; includes CD]. New York: Callaway. 40 pp.

Hill, R. T. 1997. “Revenants in Folk Tales: Examples from the Lower New River” [W.Va., five tales]. In Proceedings, New River Symposium, April 11-12, 1997, Glade Springs Resort, Daniels, West Virginia, 20-28. Glen Jean, W.Va.: National Park Service.

Horner, Kathleen May, informant. 2002. “The Legend of the Braxton County Monster/Flatwoods Monster.” Collected by Judy P. Byers and Dennis Deitz.Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 8: 30-31.

Ives, Edward D. 1995.The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. Second edition. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 128 pp.

Johnson, Polly. 2001. “Two Transcriptions of ‘Jack and the Bull’ by Polly Johnson” [1941; Wise, Va.]. Transcribed by James Taylor and Richard Chase; introduction by Charles L. Perdue, Jr. Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 99-105.

Jones, Loyal, and Billy Edd Wheeler. 1995. More Laughter in Appalachia: Southern Mountain Humor. Little Rock: August House. 224 pp.

Jones, Michael Owen, ed. 1994.Putting Folklore to Use. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 264 pp.

Keding, Dan. 2003. “Ray Hicks: 1922-2003.”Sing Out! 47 (Fall): 213-215.

Lepp, Bil. 2002.Inept, Impaired, Overwhelmed: Tall Tales from West Virginia and Beyond [28 tales by five-time winner of the West Virginia State Liars Contest]. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. 164 pp.

Lepp, Paul, and Bil Lepp. 1999.The Monster Stick: & Other Appalachian Tall Tales [storytelling champions]. Little Rock, Ark.: August House. 159 pp.

Lindahl, Carl, ed. 2004.American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress. Vols. 1 and 2. [based on collections of the American Folklife Center; 215 tales, many Appalachian]. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe in association with Library of Congress. 729 pp.

Lindahl, Carl. 2001. “Sounding a Shy Tradition: Oral and Written Styles of American Mountain Marchen” [folktales].Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 68-98.

Lofaro, Michael A., ed. 2001.Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters: Women's Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835-1856 [122 stories]. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 334 pp.

MacNeal, Patricia M., Bonelyn Kyofski, and Kenneth Thigpen, eds. 1997.Headwaters and Hardwoods: The Folklore, Cultural History and Traditional Arts of the Pennsylvanian Northern Tier [Potter, Tioga, Bradford, Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming, and Sullivan Counties]. Mansfield, Pa.: Northern Tier Cultural Alliance.

Mann, Louise Fontaine, narrator. 2001. “Storybook Style: ‘Jack and the Green Man’” [1945; Va.]. Introduction by Carl Lindahl and Charles L. Perdue, Jr.Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 106-110.

Mayfield, John. 2003. “George Washington Harris: The Fool from the Hills” [creator of Sut Lovingood tales]. InThe Human Tradition in the Old South, ed. J. Klotter, 137-151. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources.

McCarthy, William Bernard, ed. 1994.Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers. With tales edited by William Bernard McCarthy, Cheryl Oxford, and Joseph Daniel Sobol. Publications of the American Folklore Society. New Series. Winston-Salem: University of North Carolina Press. 290 pp.

McCoy, Edain. 1997.Mountain Magick: Folk Magick & Wisdom From the Heart of Appalachia. Llewellyn’s Practical Magick Series. Saint Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications. 240 pp.

McGowan, Thomas. 1998. “Orville Hicks: Appalachian Storyteller” [Watauga Co., N.C.].North Carolina Folklore Journal 45 (Summer-Fall): 105-108.

McGowan, Thomas. 2002. “‘Sort of like anAppalachian Journal Editor’: Presenting and Playing with Identity in the Storytelling of Orville Hicks.”Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002): 164-179.

McIntyre, Les. 2001. “A Personal Journey in Search of Frankie Silver” [N.C.; 1833 hanging].Bluegrass Unlimited 35 (January): 38-42.

McMillon, Bobby. 2000. “‘A Fly in Amber: Faded Leaves of Time’: An Autobiographical Excerpt” [author is descendant of Charlie Silver - murdered by Frankie Silver, 1831, N.C.].North Carolina Folklore Journal 47 (Winter/Spring): 8-14.

McNeil, W. K. 2004. “The South and Southern Highlands: Introduction.” InAmerican Regional Folklore: A Sourcebook and Research Guide, by Terry Ann Mood, 153-163. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.

Miller, Jim Wayne. 1995. The Laughing Snake: A Serpentine Look at Appalachian Humor. InMore Laughter in Appalachia: Southern Mountain Humor, by L. Jones and B.E. Wheeler. Pp. 186-205. Little Rock: August House.

Milnes, Gerald. 1995. "West Virginia's Omie Wise: A Folk Process Unveiled."Appalachian Journal 22 (Summer): 376-389.

Milnes, Gerald. 1999 [1990].Granny Will Your Dog Bite and Other Mountain Rhymes. Reprint. Little Rock, Ark.: August House. 48 pp. Originally published, New York: Knopf.

Moerk, Alice. 2002. “The Flatwoods Monster: A Musical Drama: Creative Interpretation in Text Form.”Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 8: 31-32.

Montell, William Lynwood. 1994.Kentucky Ghosts. New Books for New Readers. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 58 pp.

Montell, William Lynwood. 2000 [1983].Don’t Go Up Kettle Creek: Verbal Legacy of the Upper Cumberland [Cumberland River Valley, Ky./Tenn.; oral history]. Reprint, with a new foreword. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 247 pp.

Montell, William Lynwood. 2000.Ghosts Across Kentucky [280 tales]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 208 pp.

Montell, William Lynwood. 2001.Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky [statewide collection of ghost stories]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 291 pp.

Montell, William Lynwood. 2004. “‘That’s Not the Way I Heard It’: Traditional Life and Folk Legends of the Upper Cumberland” [Ky., Tenn.]. InRural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 122-139. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Mood, Terry Ann. 2004. “The South and Southern Highlands” [186-item annotated bibliography; Selected Authors; Museums; Journals; Web Sites; introduction by W. K. McNeil]. Chap. 3 inAmerican Regional Folklore: A Sourcebook and Research Guide, 151-214. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.

Mullins, Matthew. 2002. “Gray Barker: West Virginia UFologist” [1925-1984; UFO and supernatural personal archive].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Fall): 64-65.

Mullins, Matthew. 2002. “UFO’s in West Virginia: An Historical Overview.”Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Fall): 66-69.

Musick, Ruth Ann, comp. 2004. “Folklore of Coal” [22 brief, oral narratives collected in 1950s-60s from W.Va. miners].Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 9: 8-15.

Musick, Ruth Ann. 2002. “Folklore of Belief: Omens, Tokens, Signs, and Tales of Wisdom, Caution, and Hope” [from unpublished collection; 1950s and 60s informants].Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 8: 18-26.

Nickell, Joe. 2001. “The Flatwoods UFO Monster” [W.Va., supernatural being]. Chap. 46 inReal-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Park, Edwards. 2000. “A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics: A Smithsonian Anthropologist Digs for Victims of a West Virginia Mob Murder” [1889 murders of fiddlers Milt Haley and Green McCoy].Smithsonian 30 (March): 32, 34, 36.

Patrick, Kevin J. 2000. “Joe Magarac and the Spirit of Pittsburgh” [steel folk hero; Pittsburgh’s Paul Bunyan and John Henry]. InA Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies: From Precambrian to Post-Industrial, eds. K. Patrick and J. Scarpaci, 10-16. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

Patterson, Daniel W. 2000.A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and the Stories of Frankie Silver [N.C.; McMillon is a folk singer/storyteller, and performs in the 1996 filmThe Ballad of Frankie Silver]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 240 pp.

Perdue, Charles L., Jr. 2001. “Is Old Jack Really Richard Chase?” [jack tale collector; 1904-1988; Appendix A: Cross-Correlation of Jack Tales in Selected Early Collections; Appendix B: Traits of Jack Tales in the Five Collections; Appendix C: Traits of Jack Tales (a comparison with other early collectors)].Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 111-138.

Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Marchen. 2001. Special issue,Journal of Folklore Research 38 (January-August): 1-179.

Rennick, Robert M. 2001. “What’s Folklore?” [defines “the folk”].Appalachian Heritage 29 (Fall): 36-40.

Rolph, Daniel N. 1994."To Shoot, Burn, and Hang": Folk-History From a Kentucky Mountain Family and Community. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 171 pp.

Russell, Randy, and Janet Barnett. 1999.The Granny Curse and Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tennessee [25 tales]. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair. 112 pp.

Samples, Mack. 2002.Elk River Ghosts: Tales & Lore [21 stories]. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. 82 pp.

Sawin, Patricia. 2004.Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories [b. 1913, N.C.; singer, story teller; interview-based]. Logan: Utah State University Press. 254 pp.

Schlosser, S. E. 2004.Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore [30 tales]. Retold by S. E. Schlosser; illustrated by Paul G. Hoffman. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press. 197 pp.

Sergent, Donnie, Jr., and Jeff Wamsley. 2001.Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend [W.Va.; winged supernatural creature; 1960s sightings]. Point Pleasant, W.Va.: Mothman Lives Publishing. 164 pp.

Smith, Barbara. 2001. “The Philippi Mummies: ‘Preserved Until Judgement Day’” [locally famous, 19 th-century, mummified bodies displayed in the Barbour County Historical Museum].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 56-59.

Smith, Jimmy Neil. 2001. “Storytelling Collection Comes to the Library of Congress” [from Jonesborough, Tenn.-based National Storytelling Festival, founded 1973].Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 23, no. 3 (Summer): 3-5.

Sobol, Joseph Daniel. 1999.The Storytellers’ Journey: An American Revival [National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, Tenn.]. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 304 pp.

Sobol, Joseph. 2002. “Ray Hicks and the Doctors” [account of the storyteller’s amiable “cultural standoff” with Johnson City, Tenn., hospital interns when he is diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer; Hicks died April 20, 2003].Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Summer): 14-16.

Still, James, and Margot Tomes. 1996.Jack and the Wonder Beans. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 32 pp.

Storytelling in West Virginia. 1998. Special Report [five articles on festivals and individuals],Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Spring): 10-27.

Taft, Michael. 2001. “Vance Randolph: ‘Mr. Ozark’” [1892-1980].Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 23, no. 2 (Spring): 3-4.

Tice, John. 2003. “Searching for Ikie’s Tomb” [solving mystery of vandalized mausoleum of Pleasants Co. infant, d. 1904].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Fall): 64-69.

Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness [heritage; curricula guide]. Annual. 1993-- . Fairmont, W.Va.: Fairmont State College.

Watson, Bruce, with photographs by Rom Raymond. 1997. “‘The Storyteller is the Soybean . . . the Audience is the Sun’” [storytelling festival; Jonesborough, Tenn.]Smithsonian 27 (March): 60-62,64,66-68,70.

Williams, Elizabeth M. 2003. “Ray Hicks, from Local Storyteller to Cultural Icon: A Bibliography” [1922-2003; 59 entries].Appalachian Journal 30 (Summer): 302-306.

Williams, Lisa. 1999. “The Legend of David Lang: The Literary History” [catalogs folk heritage of farmer who vanished 1880, Sumner Co., Tenn.].Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 59 (no. 3): 103-121.

Willis, Meredith Sue. 1999. “Folk Culture and My Family” [W.Va.].Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 5: 37-39.

Witchlore [22 short witch tales]. 2001.Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 6: 12-20.

Yeh, Nora. 2001. “The Vance Randolph Collection Available to Researchers.”Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 23, no. 2 (Spring): 5-6. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/faid/repository.html#AFC/; see also: http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/.

Yoder, Don. 2003.Groundhog Day [history of the February 2 nd celebration, Punxsutawney, Pa.]. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 144 pp.

Young, Perry Deane. 1998.The Untold Story of Frankie Silver: Was She Unjustly Hanged? [N.C.; 1833]. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press. 220 pp.

Zwierzchowski, Mary. 2002. “Hollidays Cove Murder Mystery” [1887, northern panhandle double murder].Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Summer): 30-37.