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Petro, Pamela, 1960-

Sitting up with the dead : a storied journey through the American South / Pamela Petro.

1st North American ed.

New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by AOL Times Warner Book Group, 2002.

xviii, 414 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Includes Jack the trickster, boo-bags and plat-eyes, ghosts, and singing turtles, an enchanting and entertaining collection of tales, culminating from the author.

Tales -- Southern States.

Storytellers -- Southern States -- Interviews.

Southern States -- Social life and customs.

Southern States -- Description and travel.

Interviews.

Includes index.

First Journey -- Akbar's Tale -- Tar Baby -- Colonel Rod's Tale -- The Mule Egg -- Vickie's Tale -- Rosehill's Tale -- The Kudzu's Tale -- Grandfather Creates Snake -- Orville's Tale -- Jack and the Varmints -- David's Tale -- Ross and Anna -- Second Journey -- Veronica's Tale -- A Polar Bear's Bar-Be-Cue -- Taily Po -- Kwame's Tale -- The Story of the Girl and the Fish -- Alice's Tale -- Cornelia's Tale -- The Plat-Eye -- Fouchena's Tale -- The Flying Africans -- Minerva's Tale -- Tom's Tale -- The Story of Lavinia Fisher -- Third Journey -- Ray's Tale -- Fourth Journey -- Ollie's Tale -- Kathryn's Tale -- The Grandfather Tales -- David Joe's Tale -- The Peddler Man -- Karen's Tale -- Rose and Charlie -- The Tale of the Farmer's Smart Daughter -- Oyo's Tale -- Mitch and Carla's Tale -- How My Grandma was Marked -- Wicked John -- The Bell Witch's Tale -- Annie's Tale -- Shug -- My First Experience with a Flush Commode -- Angela's Tale -- Rose Anne's Tale -- The Song in the Mist -- Granny Griffin's Tale -- The Dead Man.

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