The Hag

Author : Marc Eliot
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306923197

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The Hag by Marc Eliot Pdf

The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more. Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country Top Ten, 13 that went to #1, and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample songbook, unique singing voice and brilliant phrasing that illuminated his uncompromising commitment to individual freedom, cut with the monkey of personal despair on his back and a chip the size of Monument Valley on his shoulder, Merle's music and his extraordinary charisma helped change the look, the sound, and the fury of American music. The Hag tells, without compromise, the extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary research, sharp detail and ample anecdotal material that biographer Marc Eliot is known for, and enriched and deepened by over 100 new and far-ranging interviews. It explores the uniquely American life of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks bound for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who found redemption through the music of "the common man." Merle Haggard's story is a great American saga of a man who lifted himself out of poverty, oppression, loss and wanderlust, to catapult himself into the pantheon of American artists admired around the world. Eliot has interviewed more than 100 people who knew Haggard, worked with him, were influenced by him, loved him or hated him. The book celebrates the accomplishments and explore the singer's infamous dark side: the self-created turmoil that expressed itself through drugs, women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag offers a richly anecdotal narrative that will elevate the life and work of Merle Haggard to where both properly belong, in the pantheon of American music and letters. The Hag is the definitive account of this unique American original, and will speak to readers of country music and rock biographies alike.

Author : Emma Restall Orr
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780999708

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Kissing the Hag by Emma Restall Orr Pdf

Kissing the Hag by Emma Restall Orr is based upon the old tale of The Marriage of Sir Gawain, and carries us from girlish innocence through to the nauseating horror of the hag - the raw side, the dark side, the inside of a woman's.

Author : Daisy Johnson,Kirsty Logan,Emma Glass,Eimear McBride,Natasha Carthew,Mahsuda Snaith,Naomi Booth,Liv Little,Imogen Hermes Gowar,Irenosen Okojie
Publisher : Virago
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349013589

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Hag by Daisy Johnson,Kirsty Logan,Emma Glass,Eimear McBride,Natasha Carthew,Mahsuda Snaith,Naomi Booth,Liv Little,Imogen Hermes Gowar,Irenosen Okojie Pdf

'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today. 'A thoroughly original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times 'Sharp writing and cleverly done' Spectator

Author : Alexander Lookup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3QUY

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The Granddaughter of the Caesars, Or, The Hag of the Earth and the Syren of the Waters by Alexander Lookup Pdf

Author : Catharina Raudvere
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030489199

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Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief by Catharina Raudvere Pdf

This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to questions as to how rural people envisaged good and evil, illness and health, and cause and effect. At closer reading, narratives about the mara character involve existential themes, as well as comments on gender and social hierarchy. This monograph analyses how this female creature was conceived of in oral literature and everyday ritual practice in pre-industrial Scandinavia, and what role she played in a larger pattern of belief in witchcraft and magic.

Author : Pat McKissack,Onawumi Jean Moss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689851940

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Precious and the Boo Hag by Pat McKissack,Onawumi Jean Moss Pdf

From the author of the Newbery Honor-winning "The Dark-Thirty" comes a deliciously funny, not-too-scary picture book featuring a spunky heroine and the Boo Hag, a crafty spirit that will stop at nothing to get inside the house. Full color.

Author : Lorna Landvik
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452959610

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Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) by Lorna Landvik Pdf

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world The curmudgeon who wrote the column “Ramblin’s by Walt” in the Granite Creek Gazette dismissed his successor as “puking on paper.” But when Haze Evans first appeared in the small-town newspaper, she earned fans by writing a story about her bachelor uncle who brought a Queen of the Rodeo to Thanksgiving dinner. Now, fifty years later, when the beloved columnist suffers a massive stroke and falls into a coma, publisher Susan McGrath fills the void (temporarily, she hopes) with Haze’s past columns, along with the occasional reprinted responses from readers. Most letters were favorable, although Haze did have her trolls; one Joseph Snell in particular dubbed her “liberal” ideas the “chronicles of a radical hag.” Never censoring herself, Haze chose to mollify her critics with homey recipes—recognizing, in her constantly practical approach to the world and her community, that buttery Almond Crescents will certainly “melt away any misdirected anger.” Framed by news stories of half a century and annotated with the town’s chorus of voices, Haze’s story unfolds, as do those of others touched by the Granite Creek Gazette, including Susan, struggling with her troubled marriage, and her teenage son Sam, who—much to his surprise—enjoys his summer job reading the paper archives and discovers secrets that have been locked in the files for decades, along with sad and surprising truths about Haze’s past. With her customary warmth and wit, Lorna Landvik summons a lifetime at once lost and recovered, a complicated past that speaks with knowing eloquence to a confused present. Her topical but timeless Chronicles of a Radical Hag reminds us—sometimes with a subtle touch, sometimes with gobsmacking humor—of the power of words and of silence, as well as the wonder of finding in each other what we never even knew we were missing.

Author : Danielle Dulsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Divination
ISBN : 1608686795

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Sacred Hags Oracle by Danielle Dulsky Pdf

"Melding the techniques of tarot and animal spirit cards with the sacred hag archetype of witchcraft traditions, this illustrated oracle card deck introduces readers to various methods of divination. The card deck is accompanied by a book that explains divination rituals and concepts"--

Author : Vann Turner
Publisher : Feather Books
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780999858349

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The Marine, the Lady and the Hag by Vann Turner Pdf

This loss of innocence fable is set in New York City at the height of the Vietnam war. In it an idealistic Marine confronts the horrors that await him and glimpses the societal structures that enable those horrors and are indifferent to them. It's a gripping good read (only 3000 words).

Author : Sharon Blackie
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608688432

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Hagitude by Sharon Blackie Pdf

RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE “There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.” — from the book For any woman over fifty who has ever asked “What now? Who do I want to be?” comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving belief systems, exploring callings, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for accumulated wounds. Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture’s focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples as well as modern mentors, you can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and your elder years as a path to feminine power.

Author : Somer Canon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1947522264

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The Hag Witch of Tripp Creek by Somer Canon Pdf

A NEW HOME Dawna Temple let herself be moved from the familiarity of Pittsburgh to the wilds of West Virginia, all so her mentally exhausted husband, John, could heal from a breakdown. Struggling with the abrupt change of location, Dawna finds a friend in her neighbor, Suzanne Miller, known to the locals as The Hag Witch of Tripp Creek. A NEW FRIEND Dismissing it as hillbilly superstition, Dawna can't believe the things she hears about her funny and empathetic friend. Suzanne has secrets-dark secrets-and eventually she reveals the truth behind the rumors that earned her the wicked nickname decades earlier. OLD WOUNDS Now in possession of the truth, Dawna has conflicting emotions about Suzanne's past deeds, but when her husband's well-being takes a downturn, she finds there is no one else to turn to. Will she shun her friend as others have done before? ...or can she accept that an act of evil is sometimes necessary for the greater good?

Author : Erik Henry Vick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999079581

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The Hag by Erik Henry Vick Pdf

Author : Thomas Fenske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1613095775

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The Hag Rider by Thomas Fenske Pdf

Written as a Civil War memoir, The Hag Rider explores fifteen-year-old Jack Benson's transition to manhood as he tells his soldier's account of life in the Confederate cavalry, a life convoluted by the spectral manipulations of Vanita, an old witch-woman who is sworn to protect him. Her hidden presence seems to protect Jack throughout the war in amazing ways, across countless miles, through patrols, battle, and capture.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448192588

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Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood Pdf

The 'riotous, insanely readable' (Observer) retelling of The Tempest from the 2019 Booker Prize-winning author of THE TESTAMENTS. ‘Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun...'Observer Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. Also brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It’s magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017**

Author : Kathleen Kaufman
Publisher : Turner
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684421683

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Hag by Kathleen Kaufman Pdf

Spanning centuries of human history, the daughters of the lowland hag, the Cailleach, an ancient female force hidden in the rocky Scottish cliffs, must navigate a world filled with superstition, hatred, violence, pestilence, and death to find their purpose.