Oracle of the ages
Subtitle: reflections on the curious life of fortune teller Mayhayley Lancaster
By: Dot Moore with Katie Lamar Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Katie Lamar.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Montgomery, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Lancaster, Mayhayley, 1875-1955; Fortune-tellers -- Georgia -- Heard County -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Mayhayley Lancaster was many things through her interesting life: lawyer, schoolteacher, political activist, fortune teller, numbers runner, and self-proclaimed "oracle of the ages". In this new volume of creative nonfiction, the people who knew her reflect on her personality, her politics, and her passions, offering the reader a chance to delve fully into Mayhayley lore and legend. Oracle offers strange and often hilarious stories of the poor Georgia South in the post-Depression era, and how the eccentric Mayhayley's charisma and mysterious powers cast a spell on all the people who knew -- and inevitably misunderstood -- her.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.          ) and index.