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The Doctor To The Dead
John Bennett

The Doctor To The Dead

Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston

University of South Carolina Press (Feb 01, 1995)
9781570030406
| Paperback
304 pages | 135 x 188 mm | English
Dewey 398.20899607307
LC Classification GR103 .B4 1995
LC Control No. 94035199

Genre

  • Gen SC Charleston

Subject

  • African Americans - South Carolina - Charleston - Folklore
  • Folklore - South Carolina - Charleston
  • Tales/ South Carolina/ Charleston

Plot

"'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 folk tales. Derived from African-American legends, these haunting fables have entertained generations of Charlestonians with their storytelling magic." -- Back cover.

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