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.

Stone-Throwing Devils

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

Stone-Throwing Devils

HERE is an odd recurrence among American legends of tales relating to assaults of people or their houses by imps of darkness. The shadowy…

Stone-Throwing Devils: Walton

The charge of witchcraft was not pressed, because the man had obtained what he wanted, but the poor, houseless creature laid a ban on the…

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