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| | | Myths, Mysteries and Ghost Stories | Home » » » Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories: From Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi | | | | | | | Description: | | This is the first anthology of the author's own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present volume includes 13 of the best of Mrs. Windham's stories, representing mysterious and supernatural doings from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Most of the stories are related to historical places and sometimes to historical people. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Kathryn Tucker Windham | | Hardcover:
| 186 pages | | Publisher:
| NewSouth Books | | Publication Date:
| 2004-10 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1588381706 | | Product Width:
| 1.25 centimeters | | Product Height:
| 1.75 centimeters | | Product Weight:
| 0.01 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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 kathryn tucker windhamJun 16, 2011
By Caroline R.
one of her best! we have truley lost one of the most inspirational story tellers of our time. i know my life was changed by her wisdom and down to earth nature. i was priveledged to call her my mentor and friend. thank you kathryn!
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 Bizarre Southern Folklore With A Macabre Flavor.Apr 14, 2005
By Betty Burks
"Betty Burks"
Ms. Windham is a good purveyor of scary (in a sense) stories which I used to hear sometimes as a child from a friend's grandmother here in Knoxville. She, like Kathryn, was a good story teller, but I would wonder why she chose bedtime to scare children.
This is a collection from the five out of print Jeffrey books. The Bell Witch in Adams, TN, as witnessed by Andrew Jackson was wrongly named (Kate) -- from the two family members taunted by this "devil", it shows definitely to be a male. He was jealous of the wife and loved the daughter.
The snake charmer in the hills of East Tennessee was just plain stupid who took a fatal choice with his fiddle playing -- the rattlesnakes took their revenge for all the snake skins he had collected one by one. He still plays the devil's instrument on still clear nights as the rattles keep time with the music.
The farmer who "vanished" in broad daylight in Gallatin, Tennessee, was a made up story by the 'Cincinnati Inquirer' in the 1880s; it never happened similar to the story made up by a Chicago paper around that same time about the Indian Rope Trick. There is no evidence that either happened, only a tale to pass on for posterity.
We all have a ghost story to tell, one from the past or one we experienced as an adult. Actually, my experience was with both, and they were "good" ghosts. Someday, I plan to haunt the Tennessee Theater and the Knoxville buses -- but I hope that will be a long time from now. It will be fun!
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