Two Penny Ballads And Four Dollar Whiskey A Pennsylvania Folklore Miscellany "King Arthur's Tomb Told By Hiram Cranmer

Robert H. Byington, Kenneth S. Goldstein. Edited Samuel P. Bayard, MacEdward Leach, Hiram Cranmer

Published by Folklore Associates, U. S. A., 1966

About this Item

Near Very Good Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo Red Hardcover. Ex-Library With Many of the Library Markings Removed. Spine free of marking. Clean Pages No underlines. This will be eye opening to any Arthurian person. It includes along with other American folk stories an amazing Arthurian oral story told by a famous Pennsylvania Storyteller who gathered it from an old man married to a native American. It is not a invented story per se, it is about King Arthur's men burying him under some stones in the Pocono mountains by a healing spring of Western Pennsylvania so his enemies wont find him! This is from the 1960s before the Arthurian revival. This unusual story is told in a mundane not literary manner. Academic Folklore book with edited by a folklorist not trying to prove, or convince, only to present. Gravestones, folk music notation, ballads, ghosts, and 'Oh yes' King Arthur's body hidden in Pennsylvania!! Never reprinted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two Penny Ballads And Four Dollar Whiskey A Pennsylvania Folklore Miscellany "King Arthur's Tomb Told By Hiram Cranmer
• Publisher: Folklore Associates, U. S. A.
• Publication Date: 1966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: Near Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • North American Folklore and Supernatural
  • Pre-Columbus Voyages/Ancient America/ Mound Bui...
  • Arthurian Legend