The Doctor to the Dead
Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
Published on 30. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-64336-137-6 (ISBN)
Description
You ask for a story. I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true." So begins ""Crook-Neck Dick,"" one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston lore. Derived from African American legends, these fables have entertained generations of Charlestonians with sheer storytelling magic. To delight of folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story, this treasure features photos of the storytellers who shared these remarkable stories with John Bennett.
Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides a foreword.
Julia Eichelberger, the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, provides a foreword.
Reviews / Votes
A collection of folk story, myth, drolleries, macabre unreason . . . old tales of death, mystery, bizarre incredibilities, diabolic influence, demanding ghosts, buried treasure, enchantments, miracles, visitations, and the dead that are not dead." -Kirkus ReviewsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64336-137-6 (9781643361376)
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Persons
John Bennett (1865-1956) was a novelist, artist, essayist, and poet of international acclaim who played a fundamental role in the Charleston Renaissance. His other books include the beloved children's story Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time and The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard.
Julia Eichelberger is the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
Julia Eichelberger is the Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature and an executive board member of the Center for Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
Content
Introduction: Remembering and Rewriting Gullah Narratives
An Introductory Comment
1. The Doctor to the Dead
2. The Death of the Wandering Jew
3. Madame Margot
4. The Black Constable
5. Tales from the Trapman Street Hospital
6. All God's Chillen Had Wings
7. The Measure of Grief
8. The Enchanted Cloak
9. The Young Wife Whose Vine Meloned Beyond the Fence
10. Death and the Two Bachelors
11. When the Dead Sang in Their Graves
12. Rolling Rio and the Gray Man; Or, The Gift of Strength
13. The Remember Service
14. A Young Girl's Virtue Preserved by the Devil
15. Crook-Neck Dick
16. Louis Alexander
17. The Apothecary and The Mermaid
18. The Man Who Wouldn't Believe He Was Dead
19. Daid Aaron, I
20. Daid Aaron, II
21. Buried Treasure; Or, The Two Bold Fisherman
An Introductory Comment
1. The Doctor to the Dead
2. The Death of the Wandering Jew
3. Madame Margot
4. The Black Constable
5. Tales from the Trapman Street Hospital
6. All God's Chillen Had Wings
7. The Measure of Grief
8. The Enchanted Cloak
9. The Young Wife Whose Vine Meloned Beyond the Fence
10. Death and the Two Bachelors
11. When the Dead Sang in Their Graves
12. Rolling Rio and the Gray Man; Or, The Gift of Strength
13. The Remember Service
14. A Young Girl's Virtue Preserved by the Devil
15. Crook-Neck Dick
16. Louis Alexander
17. The Apothecary and The Mermaid
18. The Man Who Wouldn't Believe He Was Dead
19. Daid Aaron, I
20. Daid Aaron, II
21. Buried Treasure; Or, The Two Bold Fisherman