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Author Bennett, John, 1865-1956.

Title The doctor to the dead; grotesque legends & folk tales of old Charleston / by John Bennett.

Publication Info. New York : Rinehart [1946]

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  398.2 BENNETT    Check Shelf
Description 260 pages : 1 illustrations ; 19 cm
Contents Doctor to the dead -- Death of the wandering Jew -- Madame Margot -- Black constable -- Tales from the Trapman Street Hospital -- All God's children had wings -- Measure of grief -- Enchanted cloak -- Young wife whose vine meloned beyond the fence -- Death and the two bachelors -- When the dead sang in their graves -- Rolling Rio and the gray man -- Remember service -- Young girl's virtue preserved by the devil -- Crook-neck Dick -- Louie Alexander -- Apothecary and the mermaid -- Man who wouldn't believe he was dead -- Daid Aaron I and II -- Buried treasure; or, the two bold fishermen.
Summary A collection of 23 Lowcountry ghost stories.
Subject African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Folklore.
Folklore -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
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