Gullah Ghosts

Gullah Ghosts PDF

Author: Lynn Michelsohn

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781484023303

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Meet . . . ~ the shrieking spirit of Crab Boy lost forever to a fierce Murrells Inlet marsh creature . . . ~ an ingenious slave matching wits with his plantation owner . . . ~ the unique inhabitants of isolated Sandy Island in the Carolina Lowcountry . . . These are the "ghosts" of African-American Gullah culture once so alive on plantations along the coast above and below Charleston, South Carolina. This brief collection (10,000 words, seven illustrations, 84 pages in paperback) of charming Gullah folktales includes one actual ghost story, “Crab Boy's Ghost,” local history and folklore, and notes on Gullah history and culture. An excerpt from her book Lowcountry Ghosts is also included. These selections are also included in Lynn Michelsohn's longer collection, Tales from Brookgreen with its accounts of ghosts, romantic heroines, historical characters, and mysterious visitors to Murrells Inlet in the Lowcountry surrounding Charleston, South Carolina.

Crab Boy's Ghost

Crab Boy's Ghost PDF

Author: Lynn Michelsohn

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-08-31

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781492282693

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Beware the Shrieking Droll-the wandering ghost of a child lost forever to a fierce marsh creature! Then enjoy the antics of friendlier Lowcountry spirits from nearby Waccamaw Swamp as Brother Frog, Brother Rabbit, and Brother Gator each try to outwit the others. These four charming Gullah folktales come from the African American Gullah culture once so alive on the historic rice plantations making up Brookgreen Gardens, a popular Murrells Inlet tourist attraction in the Lowcountry near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Bonus Feature: A brief excerpt from Lynn Michelsohn's Lowcountry Ghosts, stories of South Carolina ghosts from historic rice plantations around Myrtle Beach, is also included. Please Note: All four of these folktales are included in Lynn Michelsohn's longer collection, Tales from Brookgreen, with its accounts of South Carolina ghosts and lovers, historical characters and mysterious visitors on historic Lowcountry rice plantations. The story, "Crab Boy's Ghost," also appears in the short collection, Gullah Ghosts.

Ghosts of Berkeley County, South Carolina

Ghosts of Berkeley County, South Carolina PDF

Author: Bruce Orr

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1625841728

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Berkeley County, just like its sister county of Charleston, is steeped in history and rich in legend and lore. With Native American beginnings and later infused with colonial and Gullah cultures, Berkeley has seen many people come to reside. And with each of these diverse cultures came the eerie tales of ghosts, ghouls and goblins. Now, for the first time, Berkeley County ghost stories have been collected in a single volume bound to frighten and chill even the bravest of readers. Join local author and investigator Bruce Orr as he recounts the spine-tingling stories behind these apparitions, including the spirits of early colonists that still linger in the pines, the feared Cymbee water spirits of the Gullah culture and the dreaded Cherokee witch Spear Finger, who craves the livers of unsuspecting victims.

Tales from Brookgreen

Tales from Brookgreen PDF

Author: Lynn Michelsohn

Publisher: Cleanan Press Inc

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780977161454

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History, Mystery, and Romance in the Carolina Lowcountry! A haunted necklace, a trickster rabbit, an ingenious slave, a shrieking droll, and a fianc returned from the dead all come to life in Lynn Michelsohn's new collection of Carolina Lowcountry ghost stories and folklore from the four historic rice plantations making up Brookgreen GardensSouth Carolina's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach. These enchanting folktales, tied to specific plantation locations and historical events, enrich the enjoyment of any visit to the Lowcountry for tourists, armchair travelers, or devotees of ghost stories and folklore. Lynn Michelsohn, a tenth generation Carolinian, is clearly drawn to history, mystery, and romance wherever she finds it, as her previous book, "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!" explores intrigues of a different kind. Now, in "Tales from Brookgreen" her charming retelling of these sometimes-eerie, sometimes-sad, sometimes-humorous tales engages readers in characters and folkways unique to the Carolina Lowcountry.

The Doctor to the Dead

The Doctor to the Dead PDF

Author: John Bennett

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2020-08-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1643361384

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A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina. 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. John Bennett’s interpretations of the legends shared with him by African-descended Charlestonians have entertained generations. Among them are tales of ghosts, conjuring, superhuman feats, and supernatural powers; accounts of ingenuity, humor, terror, mystery, and solidarity will enchant folklorists, students of Charleston history, and all those who love a good ghost story. 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 an introduction. “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 Reviews

Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast

Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast PDF

Author: Charles Colcock Jones

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0820343552

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In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now. Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler Harris's inland dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique language and character. Through Jones' rendering of the sound and syntax of nineteenth-century Gullah, the lively stories describe the adventures and mishaps of such characters as "Buh Rabbit," "Buh Ban-Yad Rooster," and other animals. The tales range from the humorous to the instructional and include stories of the "sperits," Daddy Jupiter's "vision," a dying bullfrog's last wish, and others about how "buh rabbit gained sense" and "why the turkey buzzard won't eat crabs."

Cursed in the Carolinas

Cursed in the Carolinas PDF

Author: Patty A. Wilson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1493022229

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In Cursed in the Carolinas, Patty A. Wilson recounts tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil and unease across both North and South Carolina. The pages will bring to life these stories, letting you decide whether the resulting tragedies were simply bad luck, coincidences…or something far more sinister.

Gullah Gravestones

Gullah Gravestones PDF

Author: William Hardy

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2023-03-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1638291837

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Steve Riley is a realtor who sells his friend and client a large tract of land in coastal South Carolina for a pricey condo project. The old Gullah graveyard there is specifically not to be disturbed but during initial grading, it accidentally happens. The land explodes, forming a large crater, coughing out hideous, angry skeletons killing all the workers and pulling them into the doomed abyss—a fiery pit of no escape! Shocking mayhem has now come to the once peaceful sea island! Unconcerned by the frightening supernatural event and events to come, Johnny is only upset about his ruined property and threatens Steve to get his money back. The two men become bitter enemies! Ironically, Steve’s twin daughters disappear. Filled with vengeance, Irish-tempered Steve believes Johnny kidnapped them! But did he? Out of desperation, Steve resorts to black magic in his quest to save his girls. After receiving amazing voodoo powers by an anomaly from the invisible world, will Steve find them? Can he deal with Johnny? And will the spirits rest again, under their Gullah Gravestones?

The Ghosts of Charleston

The Ghosts of Charleston PDF

Author: Julian Buxton

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Includes ghost stories from the Aiken-Rhett House, the Garden Theater, and the Cooper River Bridge.

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