Cursed in New York : stories of the damned in the Empire State / / Randi Minetor
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| Autore: |
Minetor Randi
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| Titolo: |
Cursed in New York : stories of the damned in the Empire State / / Randi Minetor
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| Pubblicazione: | Guilford, Connecticut : , : Globe Pequot Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 398.209747 |
| Soggetto topico: | Evil eye - New York (State) |
| Blessing and cursing - New York (State) | |
| Revenge - New York (State) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New York (State) Social life and customs Anecdotes |
| New York (State) Biography Anecdotes | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1: Ancient, Unsportsmanlike Souls; 2: The Indian Princess of Lake Ronkonkoma; 3: The Truth About Shakespeare's Scottish Play; 4: The Curse of Mamie O'Rourke; 5: The Lost Souls of Seneca County; 6: The Black Dog of the Great Lakes; 7: The Rangers, the Stanley Cup, and the Curse of 1940; 8: The Death of a President and the Teams that Fail to Thrive; 9: Gustav Mahler and the Curse of the Ninth Symphony; 10: Devil's Hole: The Cave of the Evil Spirit; 11: The Hex Murder at the Stone Arch Bridge; 12: Murder in the Well: Hamilton, Burr, and the Quaker Curse |
| 13: The Power of a Maleficent Gem14: The Curse of the Black Orlov; 15: The Widow's Curse on Hyde Hall; 16: The Castle in the Catskills; 17: Bringing Malocchio to America; 18: The Scandalous Case of the Witch of Easthampton; 19: "Wicked and Detestable Arts" in Seatallcott; 20: The Knicks, the Red Bulls, and the Worst Luck in Sports; 21: The Farmer, the Beggar, and the Peach Orchard; 22: The Legend of Thirteen Curves; 23: Phantom Ships on the Hudson; 24: The Cursed Ghost of Alice Van der Veer; 25: Politics and Painted Poultry; Sources; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A collection of riveting stories about preternatural revenge. Some stories will be regionally well known. Others are nearly forgotten. All are cursed. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cursed in New York |
| ISBN: | 1-4930-1377-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797651903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cursed