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Outwitting the Devil: Jack Tales from Wise County Virginia
Resource ID: 2287
Type: non-fiction, book
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- UPDATED: 6.17.2025
- storytelling, folklore, regional, culture
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n/a
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date:
1987
ISBN:
9780941270427
pages:
121
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contents:
description:
Twenty-eight magic tales (of the same genre as "Jack and the Beanstalk") collected in southwestern Virginia by Virginia WPA Writers' Project workers during the late 1930s.
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