Tales From North American Settlers

From the seventeenth century onwards, settlers carried their stories across the Atlantic and around the world to North America. They brought with them old beliefs, ghost stories, fairy lore, tales of hidden treasure, mysterious creatures, and restless spirits. In time, these traditions took root in unfamiliar landscapes, mingling with new experiences to create a rich folklore that was uniquely North American.

Tales From North American Settlers gathers traditional stories from the United States and Canada, drawn from the many communities who made their homes across the continent. Retold

for modern readers while remaining faithful to their older forms, these tales reflect the hopes, fears and imaginations of people building new lives in forests, mountains, prairies, mining

camps, growing towns and isolated frontier settlements. These stories tell of courage and misfortune, greed and kindness, justice and revenge, and of the strange things said to linger just beyond the reach of ordinary understanding.

No single volume can capture the full breadth of North America's settler storytelling traditions. This collection is offered as a fireside introduction to the legends and folktales that travelled

with immigrants from many lands and evolved across the United States and Canada, with respect for the communities that preserved them through generations. Around this fireside, these stories continue to do what they always have. They entertain, caution, explain, inspire and keep alive the memories of those who crossed oceans to build new lives in a new land.

Find out more at: www.worldfiresidetales.com