Pennsylvania Fireside Tales Volume 4

Volume Four of the Pennsylvania Fireside Tales series contains more of the old-time Pennsylvania mountain legends and folktales collected by the author over the last fifty years. Just like in his previous editions, this volume will entertain those who enjoy reading about Pennsylvania’s early “highlanders” and their stories that have come down to the present day over the currents of oral history and tradition. Readers will find themselves transported back to the times when the state’s mountains were still inhabited by wolves, panthers, witches, ghosts, Indians, and other “throw-backs” to a harder yet simpler age. Today that era still seems to beckon to us from the depths of cool mountain hollows and from the windy heights of Pennsylvania’s tradition-steeped peaks. And as the frantic pace of modern-day life increases, the allure of the old tales seems to grow stronger, drawing us back to a seemingly pleasanter and slower time when a good storyteller was appreciated as much as a good book is today.

In this volume:

• Will-o’-the-Wisp
• The Ghostly Lantern
• Punxsutawney
• A Trophy Buck
• God’s Warriors
• Man’s Best Friend(ly Ghost)
• Raven’s Knob
• Big Cats of the Big Woods
• The Beaver Dam Witch
• Council Rocks
• Frozen in Time
• Spitzbuben
• Maids of the Mist
• Bear Tracks
• White Lady of the Gyp
• Stragglers