Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154213)

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
ISBN-10: 0813154219
ISBN-13: 9780813154213
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.74d