Ghosts along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills
Autor William Lynwood Montellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 iun 1987
The lore of death and ghosts persists as a great vestige of the past in the eastern section of an area known as the Kentucky "Pennyroyal"—or, as longtime residents sometimes call it, the "Pennyrile." Located in the foothills of southcentral Kentucky near the Tennessee line, the Eastern Pennyroyal has produced a genuine folklore, handed down by generation after generation, that even today is manifested by beliefs in death omens and the recital of tales of the supernatural
This fascinating collection of ghost stories, tales of the supernatural, death beliefs and death sayings that remain as a vestige in this area were collected by Lynwood Montell and his students over the course of a decade.
"This unique and extremely valuable book adds considerably to the area of folklore studies in the United States. The material which Montell obtained in his field work is superb."
--Don Yoder.
"This book is to be recommended to both folklorists and those non-folklorists who read folklore for enjoyment alone. It makes an important contribution to the study of deathlore and, it is to be hoped, will draw added attention to this multi-generic subject area."
--David J. Hufford, Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin.
"Professor Montell's book can well be viewed as a standard of excellence: a direct, articulate and cataloged approach for future study and implementation in the fields of folklore and oral history."
--Joan Perkal, Oral History Association Newsletter.
"The book gives fascinating accounts of death beliefs, death omens, folk beliefs associated with the dead, and in the major section, ghosts narratives. A fine combination of scholarship and chilling narration to be relished by firelight in an old deserted house in the hills."
--Book Forum.
"Professor Montell has arranged beliefs and experiences about death of a particular group of people in such a way that a whole new aspect of the people's lives comes to focus."
--Loyal Jones, The Filson Club HIstory Quarterly.
This fascinating collection of ghost stories, tales of the supernatural, death beliefs and death sayings that remain as a vestige in this area were collected by Lynwood Montell and his students over the course of a decade.
"This unique and extremely valuable book adds considerably to the area of folklore studies in the United States. The material which Montell obtained in his field work is superb."
--Don Yoder.
"This book is to be recommended to both folklorists and those non-folklorists who read folklore for enjoyment alone. It makes an important contribution to the study of deathlore and, it is to be hoped, will draw added attention to this multi-generic subject area."
--David J. Hufford, Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin.
"Professor Montell's book can well be viewed as a standard of excellence: a direct, articulate and cataloged approach for future study and implementation in the fields of folklore and oral history."
--Joan Perkal, Oral History Association Newsletter.
"The book gives fascinating accounts of death beliefs, death omens, folk beliefs associated with the dead, and in the major section, ghosts narratives. A fine combination of scholarship and chilling narration to be relished by firelight in an old deserted house in the hills."
--Book Forum.
"Professor Montell has arranged beliefs and experiences about death of a particular group of people in such a way that a whole new aspect of the people's lives comes to focus."
--Loyal Jones, The Filson Club HIstory Quarterly.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780870495359
ISBN-10: 0870495356
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First edition
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN-10: 0870495356
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First edition
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
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Notă biografică
William Lynwood Montell (1931–2023) was professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University. A distinguished interpreter of the folk customs in the Upper Cumberland, his twenty-eight books include The Saga of Coe Ridge; A Study in Oral History; and Don’t Go Up Kettle Creek: Verbal Legacy of the Upper Cumberland. He was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and received the Kentucky Governor's Arts Award in Folk Heritage.
Extras
THE UNSATISFIED DEAD
Will Jackman Fiddles Again
Old Man Will Jackman built that old house down on the creek over a hundred years ago. He was a rich man, and he had all sorts of fine furniture and stuff in it. You know the house; it was the one you was born in.
Now one time Old Will got sick and died, and two or three of his family died, too. They buried them in the graveyard up on the hill across the creek.
Will's boy, Bruce, come into a lot of money. He give most of it to Myrtle Cagle, and she had a young'un by him. And he got in some more trouble, and he went out to Oklahoma and, I think, died there not long after.
But, now, when Arlo Rippetoe was living down there after all them Pettys died, he got to hearing strange things at night. Chains would sound like they was dropped from the top of the house and would make a terrible racket. Arlo had an old pistol. One night he heard somebody walking around the house. He got up and went out and couldn't see, but down in the road in front of the house was this fine black carriage with a fine span of black horses pulling it. Arlo said it looked just like a hearse to him.
Well, he went out and it disappeared! He went back in the house. This went on for some time, and Arlo said that he would be woke up by fiddle music. Old Man Will Jackman was a good fiddler, and Arlo heard him so he knew that it was Old Man Will playing.
One day Arlo said he was poking around in a closet and found Old Man Will's and his kin's tombstones. They had been bought but not put up. Arlo was good at that sort of thing, and he went and put up the stones. And forever after that, he said, he had not heard anything there.
Adair County, 1966. This gripping narrative reads like a dictionary of legend motifs. . . . The laying of ghost by erecting the neglected gravestones had not been reported previously from oral tradition. . .
The Starving Woman
There is an old haunted house in the southern portion of Barren County near the Austin community. It is said that an old woman whose name was Stephens starved to death while living alone there. When she was dying someone gave her a piece of cornbread. She grabbed it and ate it like she was starving. The old lady was laid to rest in a nearby graveyard, but her haint continued to plague the old house as rattling dishes and strange noises.
The hungry supernatural creature was finally quieted by a subsequent family of residents who moved in after others had bee. frightened away. "Go ahead and eat all you want, Miz Stephens," they would say to her, as she moved about the kitchen foraging through the dishes and utensils. Eventually, the noises ceased as the appeased spirit returned to the graveyard.
Barren County, 1966. The informant [born 1927] learned this narrative from her mother.
The Piano Still Plays
The old house across the road from my place is said to be hainted. No one has lived in that old house since Jimmy Gray's daughter was killed there several years ago . She was found stone dead sitting at her piano, by one of the neighbors.
Jimmy Gray was never found or heard from around here after her death. It is said that he killed her while she was playing the piano. The neighbors buried her behind the Old Gray house.
Now, every night at 12 o'clock the old piano can be heard playing in the night. People reckon it is her ghost coming back to finish the song she was playing. Too, people say the house is hainted because one night some people were traveling from Liberty to McKinney, and they saw two figures leaving the old house. The ghosts darted across teh road in front of the travelers and disappeared on the other side.
Lincoln County, 1964. Although this narrative is unique in the story it tells, there is nothing about its motif components which sets it apart from several other stories found in the Eastern Pennyroyal of Kentucky.
Will Jackman Fiddles Again
Old Man Will Jackman built that old house down on the creek over a hundred years ago. He was a rich man, and he had all sorts of fine furniture and stuff in it. You know the house; it was the one you was born in.
Now one time Old Will got sick and died, and two or three of his family died, too. They buried them in the graveyard up on the hill across the creek.
Will's boy, Bruce, come into a lot of money. He give most of it to Myrtle Cagle, and she had a young'un by him. And he got in some more trouble, and he went out to Oklahoma and, I think, died there not long after.
But, now, when Arlo Rippetoe was living down there after all them Pettys died, he got to hearing strange things at night. Chains would sound like they was dropped from the top of the house and would make a terrible racket. Arlo had an old pistol. One night he heard somebody walking around the house. He got up and went out and couldn't see, but down in the road in front of the house was this fine black carriage with a fine span of black horses pulling it. Arlo said it looked just like a hearse to him.
Well, he went out and it disappeared! He went back in the house. This went on for some time, and Arlo said that he would be woke up by fiddle music. Old Man Will Jackman was a good fiddler, and Arlo heard him so he knew that it was Old Man Will playing.
One day Arlo said he was poking around in a closet and found Old Man Will's and his kin's tombstones. They had been bought but not put up. Arlo was good at that sort of thing, and he went and put up the stones. And forever after that, he said, he had not heard anything there.
Adair County, 1966. This gripping narrative reads like a dictionary of legend motifs. . . . The laying of ghost by erecting the neglected gravestones had not been reported previously from oral tradition. . .
The Starving Woman
There is an old haunted house in the southern portion of Barren County near the Austin community. It is said that an old woman whose name was Stephens starved to death while living alone there. When she was dying someone gave her a piece of cornbread. She grabbed it and ate it like she was starving. The old lady was laid to rest in a nearby graveyard, but her haint continued to plague the old house as rattling dishes and strange noises.
The hungry supernatural creature was finally quieted by a subsequent family of residents who moved in after others had bee. frightened away. "Go ahead and eat all you want, Miz Stephens," they would say to her, as she moved about the kitchen foraging through the dishes and utensils. Eventually, the noises ceased as the appeased spirit returned to the graveyard.
Barren County, 1966. The informant [born 1927] learned this narrative from her mother.
The Piano Still Plays
The old house across the road from my place is said to be hainted. No one has lived in that old house since Jimmy Gray's daughter was killed there several years ago . She was found stone dead sitting at her piano, by one of the neighbors.
Jimmy Gray was never found or heard from around here after her death. It is said that he killed her while she was playing the piano. The neighbors buried her behind the Old Gray house.
Now, every night at 12 o'clock the old piano can be heard playing in the night. People reckon it is her ghost coming back to finish the song she was playing. Too, people say the house is hainted because one night some people were traveling from Liberty to McKinney, and they saw two figures leaving the old house. The ghosts darted across teh road in front of the travelers and disappeared on the other side.
Lincoln County, 1964. Although this narrative is unique in the story it tells, there is nothing about its motif components which sets it apart from several other stories found in the Eastern Pennyroyal of Kentucky.