The Moon-Eyed People Folk Tales from Welsh America

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Publisher's Synopsis

A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an 'Indian Princess', Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff and, all the while, mountain women practise Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft. These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native and enslaved people who had long been living there, and those curious travellers who returned to find their roots in the old country. They were explorers, miners, dreamers, hobos, tourists, farmers, radicals, showmen, sailors, soldiers, witches, warriors, poets, preachers, prospectors, political dissidents, social reformers, and wayfaring strangers. The Cherokee called them: 'the Moon-Eyed People'.

Book information

ISBN: 9780750991421
Publisher: The History Press
Imprint: The History Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 398.2089166073
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 189
Weight: 298g
Height: 193mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 13mm