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Award-winning
husband-and-wife folklorists Randy Russell and Janet Barnett have gone
to the dogs. Digging deeply through the rich field of Southern folklore,
the authors have discovered that a dog's devotion to its human does not
always end at the grave.
Dogs can be as peculiar as
people. Their relationship with humans is complex. In story after story
from Southern homes, there is strong evidence that this relationship can
extend beyond death.
Do dogs return from the other
side to comfort and aid their human companions? You bet your buried
bones they do.
In Ghost Dogs of the
South, you'll meet the following:
--A stray dog that warns
Kentucky coal miners of impending disaster
--A literary critic of a dog
with the gift of speech
--A dog-snatching mermaid on
the Mississippi River
--A Tennessee dog that
returns year after year to go trick-or-treating
--A pair of Georgia hounds
that stumble upon an enchanted woods
--A girl whose pain is eased
by the ghost of a butterfly dog
Dog ghosts (dogs that have
become ghosts), ghost dogs (humans who return as ghosts in the shape of
dogs), dogs that see ghosts, dogs that are afraid of ghosts--all make an
appearance in these twenty stories that illuminate the shadow side of
man's best friend.
about the authors
Randy Russell and Janet Barnett previously collaborated on Mountain
Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina and The
Granny Curse and Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tennessee.
They live on a shaggy dog-dug acre of yard outside Asheville, North
Carolina.
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