Buckeye legends
Subtitle: folktales and lore from Ohio
By: Michael Jay Katz.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Tales -- Ohio.; Legends -- Ohio.; Ohio -- History.; Ohio -- Social life and customs.
Description: A collection of stories about Ohio including "The Zanesville earthquakes," "Rattlesnake mound," "The Corpse that wouldn't bleed," and "The headless horseman of Cherry Hill.".
Table of contents: title: The ill-fated Blennerhassetts of Blennerhassett Island -- The formidable Abigail Mink -- The child from nowhere -- The Zanesville earthquakes -- The strangling of pretty Ruthy Sue -- Jemima who got the old-time religion -- Three chips in the mulberry tree -- Heidi the hound-dog cow -- Rattlesnake Mound -- The corpse that wouldn’t bleed -- Mannassah who even yelled at God -- Ru Stones in the far-away South Pacific -- Chimney Rocks and Canter’s Cave -- How the Tha-we-gila and the Cha-lah-kaw-tha found that they were equals -- Hardesty Cheeter meets an Indian maiden -- Duyvelscar the wolflet -- The Headless Horseman of Cherry Hill -- Waupee White Hawk and his family -- The giant bones of Geauga County -- The ghost town of Fallsville -- Theodocia saved from the night wolves -- Some recollections of an Ohio wolf hunter -- Sandy McGuffey, Sam Brady’s Indian scout -- The gloomy valley near Steubenville -- Marion Jamson’s two iron kettles -- The Quaker tribe -- The natural religion of Johnny Chapman -- Joe Copperwing, the last Shawnee in Ohio.