Doctor to the Dead

Doctor to the Dead

Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston

  • Autor: Bennett, John; Eichelberger, Julia
  • Editor: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781643361376
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643361383
  • Lloc de publicació:  South Carolina , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2020
  • Mes: Agost
  • DDC: 398.209757/915
  • Idioma: Anglés

Twice-told tales about historic Charleston

"You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true." So begins "Crook-Neck Dick," one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. John Bennett's interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers; accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story.

Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides an introduction.

  • Cover
  • The Doctor to the Dead
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Remembering and Rewriting Gullah Narratives
  • An Introductory Comment
  • The Doctor to the Dead
  • The Death of the Wandering Jew
  • Madame Margot
  • The Black Constable
  • Tales from the Trapman Street Hospital
  • All God’s Chillen Had Wings
  • The Measure of Grief
  • The Enchanted Cloak
  • The Young Wife Whose Vine Meloned Beyond the Fence
  • Death and the Two Bachelors
  • When the Dead Sang in Their Graves
  • Rolling Rio and the Gray Man; Or, The Gift of Strength
  • The Remember Service
  • A Young Girl’s Virtue Preserved by the Devil
  • Crook-Neck Dick
  • Louie Alexander
  • The Apothecary and The Mermaid
  • The Man Who Wouldn’t Believe He Was Dead
  • Daid Aaron, I
  • Daid Aaron, II
  • Buried Treasure; Or, The Two Bold Fishermen

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