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978-0-89587-027-8
0-89587-027-4
$8.95 paperback
5" x 8"
93 pages
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According to
archivists at the Library of Congress, South Carolina is
richer in folklore than any other state. After traveling
almost every back road in several South Carolina counties,
Nancy Rhyne wholeheartedly supports the claim.
With her tape
recorder in hand, the author interviewed dozens of Low
Country people, finding that almost every person had a story
to tell. She sought out everyone from millionaires to the
humblest of coastal people. From their narratives she has
fashioned a collection of stories steeped in the history and
character of the Low Country.
Some of the tales
in this collection are humorous, some mysterious. Others are
positively eerie. There are stories of killer hurricanes,
bizarre voodoo practices and inexplicable happenings.
Effortlessly, the author takes us from a gorgeous plantation
estate of the 1850s to an overgrown and forbidding cemetery
in 1979. And she never fails to keep our attention on this
somewhat alien but fascinating world--a world peopled with
witch doctors, ghosts, cruel overseers, slaves and
world-famous personalities.
Nancy Rhyne has
taken scattered bits of folklore and oral narratives,
combined these with her gift of storytelling, and created a
wonderfully engaging book that will entertain readers for
years to come. |
