![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an opinion that makes sense, for when cultures and civilizations are under attack, they seem to gather together all the hearth and campfire stories, all the porch tales that previously existed as nebulous oral traditions, as happened to the Mycenaeans when threatened by the Greeks, the Greeks when threatened by the Romans, and the Romans when threatened by a barbaric world. ![]() Botkin, in his introduction, opined that the corpus of southern-related folklore developed just before the War Between the States, through the period of the War, and into the rapacious Reconstruction Era following. This is a collection of all manner of stories, legends, fables and historical snippets pertaining to the south, and the range of subject matter is indeed exhaustive. ![]()
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