A compendium of Ozark superstition, ritual, and everyday belief, drawn from fieldwork rather than armchair myth-making.

Randolph moves through specific practices—charms for illness, signs of death, witchcraft accusations, ghost encounters—recording not just what people believed, but how those beliefs structured daily life, conflict, and social order.

A book of how people use systems—sometimes contradictory ones—to manage fear, illness, land, and each other. It reads less like a catalogue of oddities and more like a map of how a closed world explains itself when formal institutions don’t quite reach.

Dover edition (1964), unabridged republication of the 1947 Columbia University Press original. Paperback in good condition. Some edge wear and creasing to covers; light handling marks; binding sound; interior clean.