Lore of an Adirondack County

Edith E. Cutting

Published by Cornell University Press 2018

Lore of an Adirondack County

Edith E. Cutting

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723650

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About this book

Edith E. Cutting provides an invaluable compilation of Adirondack folklore, from lumberjack songs to tall tales about drinking, hunting, and French Canadians. Also included are legends about hidden treasure, weather lore, stories about ghosts and witches.

Author / Editor information

Edith E. Cutting is a former English high school teacher and the author of several collections of New York State folklore. She coedited, with Harold W. Thompson, A Pioneer Songster: Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 1841–1856, also from Cornell.

Reviews

Essex County is generally thought of by New York State folklorists as the area where the tall tale and ballad flourish most vigorously. Lore of an Adirondack County bears out this assumption. The strongest chapters are those dealing with the tall tales, lumbering stories and songs, and the ballads. The tall tales concern the cold weather, b'ar hunting, farm incidents. Some of the latter tell of Joe Call, the powerful farmer-hero; others are retorts in our sharpest upstate tradition.... The value of this in this: it is one of the few published records of the lore of a single family and its immediate friends. It shows us what range and variety such a group can contribute to the body of our folk culture.... Because Cutting is of the people from whom she has collected her materials, one never senses the self-consciousness of the outsider relating his findings in a strange area. She has the same kind of familiarity with her material that characterizes Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	9
An Essex County Family Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
The Wild Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Anecdotes and Tall Tales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Hidden Treasure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Weather-Lore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Proverbial Sayings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
How Do You Play It? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
The Supernatural Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Ballads and Songs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 86
Keywords: Literary Studies; American Studies; Folklore

eBook

Published: October 18, 2018
ISBN: 9781501723650