| Description |
159 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159). |
| Contents |
Supernatural buffet: Vampires, banshees and their kith and kin -- The scale of injustice -- Belief in witches and the eradication thereof -- Ohio witches and their ways -- Feather crowns -- Ghosts of things that should not be ghosts -- Gruesome and ghostly: Disasters and murder most foul -- Ghosts in the graveyard -- Poltergeists and other haunts -- From Summerland to the Buckeye State. |
| Summary |
A rich vein of bizarre and uncanny tales snakes through Ohio's cornfields and cityscapes. In the earliest days of statehood, dark reports spoke of witches causing feathers to form a deadly ring in one's bed, magically strangling its sleeping victims. For years, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train rolled through Urbana, a small town in the center of the state, and caused clocks and watches to stop in its wake. A vampiric entity was said to haunt a strange cabin in the Black Swamp, and a werewolf reportedly roamed a Defiance train yard. Join Cincinnati historian Steven J. Rolfes on a tour of Ohio's strangest supernatural lore, from wailing banshees to the devil himself. |
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Haunted places -- Ohio.
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Ghosts -- Ohio -- Anecdotes.
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Parapsychology -- Ohio -- Anecdotes.
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Legends -- Ohio.
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Ohio -- History.
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Anecdotes.
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| ISBN |
9781467144148 (paperback) |
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1467144142 (paperback) |
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