Autor: David J. Puglia

Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging ‘;hon’ to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center …

Powwow practitioners of York County, the headless ghost of a murdered girl that roams the back roads of Schuylkill County and the Hummelstown Hermit who still lingers in Indian Echo Caverns–these ta …

The stories, folklore, and history surrounding Maryland’s most haunted places. A must-read for fans of the supernatural and Maryland history.The demon car of Seven Hills Road, the ominous Hell House …

Far from being a static or eroding cultural inheritance from the past, the supernatural has continually been appropriated and updated to accommodate and express social, cultural, economic and environ …

Since the Enlightenment, supernatural beliefs and practices have largely been derided as ignorant and un-modern – even anti-modern – and cities, being the ultimate symbol of progress and rationality, …

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 monst …