Cursed in New York
Subtitle: stories of the damned in the Empire State
By: Randi Minetor
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781493013760; 9781493013777
Subjects: Evil eye; Legends; Anecdotes; Tales; Blessing and cursing; Revenge; Social life and customs; Damned; Biography
Description: "A collection of riveting stories about preternatural revenge. Discover the riveting stories about Queen Esther and the Iroquois Slaughter, the Curse of Mamie O'Rourke, the Rangers, the Stanley Cup and the Curse of 1940, and many more. Some stories will be regionally well known. Others are nearly forgotten. All are cursed"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient, unsportsmanlike souls; title: The Indian princess of Lake Ronkonkoma; title: The truth about Shakespeare's Scottish play; title: The curse of Mamie O'Rourke; title: The lost souls of Seneca County; title: The black dog of the Great Lakes; title: The Rangers, the Stanley Cup and the curse of 1940; title: The death of a president and the teams that fail to thrive; title: Gustav Mahler and the curse of the Ninth Symphony; title: Devil's Hole : the cave of the evil spirit; title: The Hex murder at the Stone Arch Bridge; title: Murder in the well : Hamilton, Burr, and the Quaker curse; title: The power of a maleficent gem; title: The curse of the Black Orlov; title: The widow's curse on Hyde Hall; title: The castle in the Catskills; title: Bringing Malocchio to America; title: The scandalous case of the Witch of Easthampton; title: "Wicked and detestable arts" in Seatallcott; title: The Knicks, the Red Bulls, and the worst luck in sports; title: The farmer, the beggar and the peach orchard; title: The legend of the thirteen curves; title: Phantom ships on the Hudson; title: The cursed ghost of Alice van der Veer; title: Politics and painted poultry.