The Witch of Goingsnake: And Other Stories

by Robert J. Conley

Book Overview

Based on Cherokee history, oral storytelling, and personal experience, these stories, taken as a whole, reflect the depth of Cherokee historical experience and the range of contemporary Cherokee life. Several stories, including the one from which the collection takes its name, deal with the spiritual world. In the title story a man and his family are devastated by the evil powers of a tsigli, a witch. In other stories "medicine" is used to more constructive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806123532
• ISBN13: 9780806123530
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"