Research Catalog

Title

Folktales from the Helotes settlement / John Igo ; edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt ; illustrated by Scott Runnels.

Author

Igo, John, 1927-2016

Publication

• Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966-
• Runnels, Scott

Description

xv, 167 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Folktales from the Helotes Settlement is a collection of personal memories from the Folklore Society?s longest active member, who first joined more than fifty years ago. Here we find legends, customs, and beliefs of the people of the Helotes Settlement near San Antonio. These stories capture the lore of a place similar to lots of other places?our places. They?re familiar to us all because, when we get right down to it, the Helotes Settlement is not very different from wherever we?re from.--Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Texas Folklore Society extra book ; number 25

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Texas Folklore Society extra book ; no. 25.

Alternative Title

Helotes settlement

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• Manners and customs
• Helotes (Tex.) > Folklore
• Helotes (Tex.) > History > 20th century > Anecdotes
• Helotes (Tex.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Anecdotes
• Texas > Helotes

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Folklore
• History

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / by Kenneth l. Untiedt -- Introduction and dedication -- The white chapel -- Hitzfelder -- What toll road?-- Freddie at Maude's -- Shavano -- The mobile market -- Stations of the Cross -- John Marnock's dog -- The other barber -- The dowser -- Spring -- By any other name -- Wayfaring strangers -- Charcoal City -- Cave dwellers -- Seabirds -- Chewing tobacco -- The natural cure -- Bird-boy -- Edwards Flat -- Daisy and the stork -- The Indian tree -- The Moeller-Marnock shootout (Marnock version) -- The culvert -- The devil in the outhouse -- The trophy buck -- Nomad -- Indian middens and graves -- Fools' gold -- The skeleton house -- Phantom cemetery -- Cisterns -- The wolf man -- The buzzard colony -- The rustler -- Snakes -- The invisible bootlegger(s) -- The devil's slide -- Lost gold -- The totem -- Postal service -- The merry-eye -- The barn ghost -- Lucy's treasures -- Murder I -- The white witch -- Murder II -- Artifacts -- Cleto -- Mr. Brauchle's school -- Scaring Indians -- The kid -- Sam's innocent heart -- July 4, 1976 -- The fence -- The famous stew -- Our Lady of Zion -- Watermelons-- Infant mortality -- The name: a place with three mothers -- Lily's bottle -- St. Cecilia's eyes -- The waltz contest -- Story-teller -- Stringtown: an elegy.

ISBN

• 9781574415896
• 1574415891
• 9781574415902
• 1574415905

LCCN

^^2014033771

OCLC

881030110

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library