The Folklore of Maine by Horace P. Beck

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good. 1957. Lippincott & Company. 1st Edition.

This is not a scholarly book in the pedantic sense nor is it intended to be one. Neither is it a complete collection of Maine folklore. Rather, it is a selection of tales, beliefs, superstitions, songs, and customs of people of English-speaking stock in Maine. It is a book that attempts to give illustrations of most of the major aspects of folklore that are, or have been within the last twenty years, extant in the state