American Myths and Legends, Volume 1
Charles M. Skinner
96 chapters · 8 h 18 min · English
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American Myths and Legends is another collection of folklore from author Charles M. Skinner, whose exhaustive and expansive work in the field popularized many of these stories in the public imagination. It is intended as a follow-up work to his multivolume magnum opus, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land. This is the first of two volumes.
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Chapters
1 Preface 2 min 2 The Smoking Pine 4 min 3 Various Grindstone Hill 8 min 4 A Prophet of War 4 min 5 A Shot in the Moonlight 5 min 6 The Rescue of Molly Finney 5 min 7 Dead Man's Ledge 6 min 8 Maine's Woodland Terrors 7 min 9 The Great Stone Face 5 min 10 The Stream-Spirit's Wife 3 min 11 Stone Woman of Squam 4 min 12 The Confession of Hanserd Knollys 4 min 13 Peabody's Leap 3 min 14 A Traveled Narrative 6 min 15 The Escaped Nun 6 min 16 The Long Sleep 8 min 17 Tom Dunn's Dance on Rag Rock 5 min 18 Woburn Ghost 6 min 19 How the Black Horse was Beaten 3 min 20 The Breaking of Plymouth Rock 3 min 21 The Swan of Light 5 min 22 The Love of a Praying Indian 6 min 23 The Gander's Message 6 min 24 Case of the Brothers Brown 8 min 25 A Recovered Pocket-Book 6 min 26 The Walking Corpse of Malden 5 min 27 A Rollicking Ghost 5 min 28 Crystal Spring 5 min 29 The Cheapening of "Lucy Campbell" 8 min 30 Parson Hooker's Gold Plate 3 min 31 The Evil Doing of Hobomoc 5 min 32 The Terrible Moonak 5 min 33 Pomperaug's Love and Burial 6 min 34 Bloody-Heart Rhododendrons 3 min 35 Charlotte Temple 4 min 36 Jan Sol and the Monster 7 min 37 A Gift from St. Nicholas 13 min 38 Staten Island Dueling Ground 4 min 39 A Transferred Love 6 min 40 Ghosts of Dosoris 3 min 41 The Rock of Battle 3 min 42 The Non-Arrival of Fitz-William 3 min 43 Tragedy of the Secret Room 5 min 44 Who Was John Wallace? 4 min 45 The Hudson Spirits 5 min 46 Utsayantha 3 min 47 Uncle Sam 4 min 48 The Golden Tooth 11 min 49 The White Lady of Dobb's Ferry 3 min 50 The Underground Station 6 min 51 The Indian Princess Apple 4 min 52 The Blue Skaneateles 3 min 53 The Onondaga Fairies 4 min 54 Greycourt's Little History 7 min 55 The Good Bird Spirit 7 min 56 The Lovers United 5 min 57 Poke-o'-Moonshine 5 min 58 The Niagara Thunder God 6 min 59 The Death on the Palisades 4 min 60 Panther Chief of the Senecas 4 min 61 The Spooks of Schooley's Mountain 15 min 62 The House of Misfortune 6 min 63 The Lonetown Mystery 3 min 64 The Leeds Devil 4 min 65 Rose O'Mally and Calixto 7 min 66 The Goblin Jesuit 5 min 67 A Kindness Repaid 5 min 68 The White Wolf of Venango 4 min 69 Wheeling Stogies 6 min 70 The Man with the Skates 8 min 71 The Death of Tammany 5 min 72 Hexenshdedl 5 min 73 A Philadelphia Excitement 6 min 74 The Belled Buzzard 2 min 75 Stick Pile Hill 4 min 76 The Picture Tree of Tenallytown 5 min 77 The Devil's Race-Course 7 min 78 Spectres in Annapolis 6 min 79 Goggle-Eyed Jim 4 min 80 The Dismal Swamp Ship 2 min 81 Jimson Weed 3 min 82 White House 5 min 83 The Virginia Witch 3 min 84 The Virginia Cocktail 2 min 85 The Champions of Elk River 6 min 86 Cape Fear River Outlaws 8 min 87 Cain's Mark 4 min 88 How Bill Stout Settled a Mortgage 8 min 89 Some Georgian Lycanthropy 7 min 90 The White Bride of St. Simon's 4 min 91 The Drinking of Sweet Water 7 min 92 Nancy Hart 3 min 93 The Cells of Fort Marion 8 min 94 The Caloosahatchee She-Man 7 min 95 The Blood-Rose 3 min 96 St. Mary's Paradise 3 min
