(More) Superstitions and Tales from The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

These sayings and stories are taken from Shenandoah Voices: Folklore, Legends, and Traditions of the Valley by late Valley historian and author John Heatwole. I've found his accounts fascinating and very useful information for some of my American historicals.Many early valley settlers, my ancestors among them, were Scots-Irish.  People from the British Isles tended to be superstitious.  Also prevalent here were Germans bringing with them the influence of the superstitious Pennsylvania-Dutch...