Some Still Do: Essays on Texas Customs

ISBN-13: 9781574411027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str.

Francis Edward Abernethy

Opis

Some people are still working stock, building chimneys, making syrup, curing warts, and witching water the same way their fathers and grandfathers did a hundred years ago. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a collection of essays on some of the olds waysthe customsstill practiced in Texas. It is not an exercise in nostalgia, but a look at practical ways of dealing with problems of survival and coping with nature and people.
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