Vintage The Ghosts The Indians Feared Sigmund Lavine HC DJ Dodd Mead USA 1975

Author: Sigmund A. Lavine

Book Title: The Ghosts the Indians Feared

Format: Vintage hardcover children's nonfiction folklore book with illustrated dust jacket

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York

Publication year: Copyright 1975; printed in the United States of America

Language: English; genre: children and young adults, folklore and mythology, religious and spiritual studies; narrative type: nonfiction

Topic: Native American religion and mythology, Indian folklore, ghosts and hauntings, supernatural beings, and tribal beliefs and rituals across North and South America

Intended audience: Middle-grade readers ages 9–12, young adults, and general readers interested in American Indian ghost lore and cultural traditions

Details: Lavine recounts stories drawn from the religious customs and beliefs of various North and South American Indian tribes, explaining how spirits, monsters, omens, and curses shaped everyday life; chapters discuss evil spirits in animal form, haunted places, shamans and medicine people, protective charms, and ways communities sought to overcome fear of the unseen world.

Illustrations: Black-and-white photographs and line drawings, including masks, ritual objects, ceremonies, landscapes, and imaginative artwork by Jane O'Regan, with image credits to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Museums of Canada, the Smithsonian Institution, and other museum collections.

Features: Original dust jacket artwork showing a campfire scene with a masked figure and a swirling ghostly face, illustrated plates and photographs throughout, and a concluding index for easy reference.

Country of origin: Printed in the United States of America.

Identifiers: ISBN 0-396-07194-5; Library of Congress catalog number 75-11441.

Keywords: Sigmund A. Lavine The Ghosts the Indians Feared Dodd Mead 1975 vintage hardcover Native American religion mythology folklore ghosts spirits juvenile nonfiction illustrated book USA