Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete EditionBy Charles M. Skinner
Length16h 13m
About this audiobook
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land is a wide-ranging anthology of American folklore, gathering spectral tales, Indigenous traditions, colonial marvels, Revolutionary memories, and local superstitions from across the United States. Written in a polished late-nineteenth-century prose, the book blends antiquarian curiosity with narrative vigor, presenting legends as part of a national imaginative inheritance. In literary context, it belongs to the post-Romantic movement to discover a distinctively American mythology, comparable in impulse to Irving's legendary sketches and the era's regionalist recovery of place-based memory. Charles M. Skinner (1852–1907), a journalist, editor, and prolific compiler of folklore, was well placed to undertake such a project. His newspaper background sharpened his eye for anecdote, locality, and memorable detail, while his interest in American scenery, history, and popular belief reflects an age eager to define cultural identity beyond European models. Skinner's work preserves stories that might otherwise have remained scattered in oral tradition or local histories. This volume is recommended to readers interested in folklore, American literary history, regional culture, and the formation of national myth. Though modern readers should approach some materials with awareness of their period assumptions, Skinner's collection remains a valuable gateway into the haunted, heroic, and imaginative landscapes of the United States.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology
Length16 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26THE DEFORMED OF ZOAR
2PREFACE
27HORSEHEADS
3THE HUDSON AND ITS HILLS
28KAYUTA AND WANETA
4RIP VAN WINKLE
29THE DROP STAR
5CATSKILL GNOMES
30THE PROPHET OF PALMYRA
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6THE CATSKILL WITCH
31A VILLAIN'S CREMATION
7THE REVENGE OF SHANDAKEN
32THE MONSTER MOSQUITOE
8CONDEMNED TO THE NOOSE
33THE GREEN PICTURE
9BIG INDIAN
34THE NUNS OF CARTHAGE
10THE BAKER'S DOZEN
35THE SKULL IN THE WALL
11THE DEVIL'S DANCE-CHAMBER.
36THE HAUNTED MILL
12THE CULPRIT FAY
37OLD INDIAN FACE
13POKEPSIE
38THE DIVISION OF THE SARANACS
14DUNDERBERG
39AN EVENT IN INDIAN PARK
15ANTHONY'S NOSE
40THE INDIAN PLUME
16MOODUA CREEK
41BIRTH OF THE WATER-LILY
17A TRAPPER'S GHASTLY VENGEANCE
42ROGERS'S SLIDE
18THE VANDERDECKEN OF TAPPAN ZEE
43THE FALLS AT COHOES
19THE GALLOPING HESSIAN
44FRANCIS WOOLCOTT'S NIGHT-RIDERS
20STORM SHIP OF THE HUDSON
45POLLY'S LOVER
21WHY SPUYTEN DUYVIL IS SO NAMED
46CROSBY, THE PATRIOT SPY
22THE RAMAPO SALAMANDER
47THE LOST GRAVE OF PAINE
23CHIEF CROTON
48THE RISING OF GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
24THE RETREAT FROM MAHOPAC
49THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY
25NIAGARA
50DOLPH HEYLIGER
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