A Local Legend of the Ojai Valley
A Nessie in Mormon Country
alligators
Alligators-in-the-Sewers
American studies
American Vampires
and Contemporary Legend
anthropology
bigfoot
black lives matter movement
boogeyman
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Chupacabra
contagious magic
copylore
creepy
creepypasta
creolization
cryptid
cryptozoology
Cultural Appropriation
cultural studies
Daniel Boone
distorted facial features and limbs
donkey lady legend
Ecotypes
English
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Etiology
exaggerated size
Festivals
folklorist
Getting Maryland's Goat
Getting Maryland’s Goat
historical context
human psyche
humanities fields
Indigenous Belief
Isomorphic relationships
jersey devil
journalism
krakens
lake monsters
legend studies
liminality
lore
Me too movement
Mirroring Monsters of the Appalachians
monster culture
monster studies
monstrous
Mothman
native habitats
New world
ostension
place studies
Popular Horror
Prince George's County's Goatman Legend
Prince George’s County’s Goatman Legend
rhetoric
Sasquatch-Like Creatures in Newfoundland
scholars
shadow beast
Sharlie
slender man
snallygaster
sociology
students
sympathetic magic
teachers
The 'Char-Man
The 'Webber' Cycle in Western Newfoundland"
The Boondock Monster of Camp Wapehani
The Cropsey Maniac
The hodag
The Lake Lieberman Monster
the mothman of West Virginia
thunderbirds
Tubal Transmission
unusual skin texture or color
urban myth
wild man
Windigo
windigos
Winter Carnival
writing
Yahoos
Yeahohs
zombi
Product details
- ISBN 9781646421596
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Colorado
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mining a mountain of folklore publications, North American Monsters unearths decades of notable monster research. Nineteen folkloristic case studies from the last half-century examine legendary monsters in their native habitats, focusing on ostensibly living creatures bound to specific geographic locales.
A diverse cast of scholars contemplate these alluring creatures, feared and beloved by the communities that host them—the Jersey Devil gliding over the Pine Barrens, Lieby wriggling through Lake Lieberman, Char-Man stalking the Ojai Valley, and many, many more. Embracing local stories, beliefs, and traditions while neither promoting nor debunking, North American Monsters aspires to revive scholarly interest in local legendary monsters and creatures and to encourage folkloristic monster legend sleuthing.
David J. Puglia is associate professor and deputy chairperson in the Department of English Language & Literature at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. In 2011 he won the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research’s Dr. David Buchan Student Essay Prize for his Goatman research featured in North American Monsters. He is the author or coauthor of three books on state or regional folklore: South Central Pennsylvania Legends and Lore, Maryland Legends: Folklore from the Old Line State, and Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon”: The Folk in the City.
