A collection of 18 folk tales illustrated with 14 full page drawings by Jeffrey Jones. Published by Syracuse University Press in 1974 it has been out of print for many years. Sixteen stories about the Catskill Witch, the Saranac Wizard, Jurries the Goat Boy, Anthony's nose, Whipple the Carpenter, the Rampo Salamander, to name a few.Tales that concern all manner of magic creatures from witch to elf and ogre, plus spirits attributed to the Pequot and Saranac Indians. Usually the magic worked is mischief of one kind or another, the result of man's folly or disrespect for higher beings.
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