Mississippi is land of mystery, unique unto itself. A sense of timelessness exists here, a slow-paced mesmerizing and deceptive calm that lulls the mind and dulls the will. Yet beneath the surface run dangerous undercurrents. It is a land clinging to the cultural and socio-economic values of the old South, yet struggling to claim a productive place in modern times.
The Southern mystique evolves from the land’s ethnic and racial diversity and its dark history of slavery and voodoo. The red clay seeps into one’s blood and the scent of honeysuckle intoxicates one’s mind until the ...
Mississippi is land of mystery, unique unto itself. A sense of timelessness exists here, a slow-paced mesmerizing and deceptive calm that lulls the mind and dulls the will. Yet beneath the surface run dangerous undercurrents. It is a land clinging to the cultural and socio-economic values of the old South, yet struggling to claim a productive place in modern times.
The Southern mystique evolves from the land’s ethnic and racial diversity and its dark history of slavery and voodoo. The red clay seeps into one’s blood and the scent of honeysuckle intoxicates one’s mind until the outside world becomes a distant dream.
From the dark rolling hills of the northeast, home of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha and Paul Rainey’s Tippah Lodge, to the delta and famous Blues Highway 61, to the southern and Gulf Coast regions, where Indian mounds and ancient forts whisper secrets of the past, the land reverberates with folklore and legend.
Southern Gothic is so much a part of Mississippi’s heritage that oftentimes the edges blur and the lines between reality and fantasy become hard to define.
Perhaps the strange stories all have rational explanations. Perhaps the old Civil War and slave graveyards, the dark piney woods and swamplands only inspire overactive imaginations to believe in ghosts, devils and curses.
Perhaps.
But when the full moon rides high over Dixie and the north wind blows down from the hills on the wings of the night, it is easy to believe.
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Includes the story of the Witch of Yazoo, the Legend of bluesman Robert Johnson, the strange life and death of millionaire playboy and big game hunter Paul Rainey and more.
“…a well-researched look at some of the infamous myths of Mississippi (including) an interesting account of the life of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, reputed to have made a deal with the devil for his success.”
--Tangent Online
Product Details
BN ID: 2940012469847
Publisher: Southern Rose Productions
Publication date: 5/13/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 562,812
File size: 19 KB
Meet the Author
Shannon Riley is an award-winning author whose fiction, poetry and articles have appeared in over 750 publications worldwide. She is a native of Mississippi and author of a number of books of fiction and poetry, including The Enchanted Unicorn and Beasts.
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Mississippi is land of mystery, unique unto itself. A sense of timelessness exists here, a slow-paced mesmerizing and deceptive calm that lulls the mind and dulls the will. Yet beneath the surface run dangerous undercurrents. It is a land clinging to the cultural and socio-economic values of the old South, yet struggling to claim a productive place in modern times.The Southern mystique evolves from the land’s ethnic and racial diversity and its dark history of slavery and voodoo. The red clay seeps into one’s blood and the scent of honeysuckle intoxicates one’s mind until the ...