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’.
Cymru Wales
The Moon-Eyed People : Folk Tales from Welsh America
£12.00
by Stevenson, Peter | Unclassified
Published 08/07/2019 by The History Press Ltd in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 192 pages, 36 Illustrations, black and white
SKU: 9780750991421
Category: Cymru Wales
Weight | 0.298 kg |
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