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H-8 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRERSunday, September 3, 1978 Heard Any Good 'Quare Do's' Lately? 5 Free Group! Organ Lessons Everyone Invited BJ No Purchase Necessary Have you learned to play your Conn, Baldwin. Yamaha, Wurlitzer, Lowrey, Kimball Organ? If not these classes are for you. The classes are Bl J. continuous every week. Free music and all BJ, material is furnished.

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Sept. 5th Schooley Piano Organ Co. Call761-4Q00 PROUD: New book author Berniece Hiser, age 70. ancestors settlement in Philadelphia and later in Kentucky; and The Lovetalker. When Hiser writes, she "lets the chips fall where they may.

Sometimes it turns out different than I thought it would," she said. She hopes her fiction may change some of the mistaken impressions people have about Appalachians. "The people may live in a circumscribed area, but they are like anybody else," she said. "Everybody is alike with a few differences." Hiser also writes stories for children. One revolves around a spy doll used during the Civil War, another is a collection of cat folklore and The Ditty Book includes folk riddles, singing folk games, ballads, put-down dittys and folksongs.

She also continues to write poetry. Her humorous poem, "Reluctant Hostess," was included in a book of sesquicentennial poets of Indiana. "Every once in a while I dash off a piece," she said. "My dream is to have a book of poetry published." HISER SAID she hopes to interest the Cincinnati School Board in her recently published book because she thinks it would be helpful to the large number of Appalachian children in the school system. Having her students gather folklore from their family or community was one of Hiser's standing assignments in her many years as an English teacher in Kentucky and Indiana.

Hiser also has a file-card collection of herbal, faith and other cures for almost every disease imaginable. One cure-all requires the breadcrumbs from Christmas dinner be saved for three years and then crushed into a powder for use as a tea or poultice. Two-thirds of the 250-acre family farm on Beech Fork of Cow Creek In Owsley County, was woods, so herbs and weeds for cures were plentiful, Hiser said. Her book of backyard medicine, Please Don't Kill the Weeds, contains some of those remedies. IN ADDITION to being an avid folklore collector with boxes and boxes of material, Hiser has always been a "book lover." In her 34 years as teacher and librarian, Hiser said she collected over 50,000 free books for the schools.

"Many times there was no money at all in the counties where I was teaching," she said. Hiser also wrote community news and stories for newspapers in Kentucky and Indiana, work JP" JBJ BJ Bft ML mmmw" CLASS RING BY JANET HALFAAANN Enquirer Reporter "I'm years old and I've just had my first baby." she said with a gleam in her eye. "My first baby brainchild." Sixty years after writing her first fairy tale, Berniece Hiser's first book, Quare Do's in Appalachia: East Kentucky Legends and Memo-rats, has been published by Pikeville College Press. In the "very words of the teller," Walton, Ky resident Hiser preserves 30 renderings of supposedly real happenings told her by family members or friends. Quare comes from the Irish and means queer, strange or unusual; a do is a happening or a doing, Hiser explained.

There is the story Granny Sally told Hiser of the spring when she "was just a chunk of a girl, somebody bewitched Mother's cow. Not a speck of butter could she get from a churning of milk." After the usual remedies such as putting a dime in the churn and whupplng the churn don't work, Uncle Bob, who was "knowed to be a witch doctor." treats the cow. He tells his sister, "this cyore (cure) won't work, I reckon you know, if you lend the witch anything She will be sick tonight, sicker than she has ever been in her life, as this cyore works on the cow-brute, and will send to borrow things offen you. But if you let her have a drap of anything, the cyore will fail. "ALL NIGHT long, little Rozamund Walton comes to borrow things for her sick mother, but Granny's mother makes up excuse after excuse.

The next morning the cow is acting right pyeart (pert). "We met Thrushie Walton on the hill when we went to pick a mess of wild sallet greens a few days later. How's your old 'ralgia and headache got? Mother asked, all innocence. "I lived, Thrushie said shortly; but it was no thanks to you. She did look mighty peaket.

"I churned a great bowl of butter this morning. Mother answered her, laughing gaily, and that was no thanks to you, too." Hiser explained legends and memorats differ from folktales in that they supposedly really happened and are closer in time, memorats being the most recent. The retired teacher, principal, and librarian who lived in Appalachia for 60 years, has collected about 250 legends and memorats, many of which she has already written down and others in note form. She has completed a second manuscript entitled Quare Ways Appalachia. MOST OF the stories Hiser has known since she was a child.

I "We lived the folk life in Appalachia," she said, 'and telling tales was just normal" before radio and TV, people would gather around the fire at night and tell tales. "We thought as much of a new folktale then as people do of a new TV program or movie now," she said. Hiser includes one of her favorite traditional folktales, "Over the Green Hills, Boo-oo!" in her recently published book. She would ask her mother to tell that tale over and over again as they sat carding wool or spinning, Hiser said. Folklore is not as prominent in the Kentucky mountains now as it used to be, Hiser said.

She doesn't think anyone believes in witches any more, but they did in her mother's and grandmother's day, she said. The speech is also changing, she added. Since Hiser retired in 1974, she has been able to spend more time writing. "I put in my whole time at it when I don't have visitors," she said. In addition to her collections of memorats, Hiser has written a book of handed-down superstitions and beliefs entitled Where Have All the Witches Gone? and one of general folklore.

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