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Title:
Curiosities of central New York
Author:
Zimmer, Melanie.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
There Was, There Was Not ... -- Witchcraft -- The Story of Doctor Daniel Roberts, the Witch Doctor of Steuben -- Iroquois Witchcraft -- The Screech Owl Witch -- Iroquois Mystical Traditions -- Dreams -- Sir William Johnson's Dreamland -- The Otherworldly Dream of Handsome Lake -- The Religious Use of Tobacco -- Monsters, Fairies and Other Beings -- Stone Giants -- Big Foot -- Flying Heads -- Lake Monsters -- The Ro-tay-yo or Giant Mosquito -- The Iroquois Little People -- Non-Iroquois Little People -- Mummies of Central New York -- Curious Places in Central New York -- The Josiah Jenkins House -- The Worlds Smallest Church -- The Spirit House -- The Mystery of the Muller Chateau -- A Tibetan Monastery in Ithaca -- Final Comments.
ISBN:
9781609496661
Format :
Book