America's own folklore, collected county by county: the treasure and the cats at Harry Main's, the headless skeleton of Swamptown, the storm ship of New Haven, and several hundred more.

Monsters and Sea-Serpents

2 pages in this part of Myths and Legends of Our Own Land.

Monsters and Sea-Serpents

T is hardly to be wondered at that two prominent scientists should have declared on behalf of the sea-serpent, for that remarkable creature…

Monsters and Sea-Serpents: Indians

Crater Lake, Oregon, was a haunt of water-devils who dragged into it and drowned all who ventured Only within a few years could Indians be…

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