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- The story of The Golden Arm is a folktale dating back 200 years, originally conceived to discourage greediness. Mark Twain famously performed this ghost story, sometimes didactically as a way to teach the skill of storytelling. Importantly, the legend of The Golden Arm is an orally-told story.
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It is written in that The Golden Arm is a Negro Ghost story, which he learned from his uncle's slave named Uncle Dan'l, and tells the reader to focus on the pause. He states it is a humorous story, most likely because people's reaction to it are funny, and explains to the reader how to tell the story to get such reactions.
692 subscribers. 162K views 15 years ago. ...more. The story "The Golden Arm" as told on the 1973 scary children's album "Great Ghost Stories".
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Oct 19, 2018 · Our first scary tale is Jackie Torrence’s classic version of “The Golden Arm.” “The Golden Arm” is an old folktale of wide distribution, classified by folklorists as ATU 366. It is known in Europe, and in American tradition was told by both white and black communities.
Nov 19, 2020 · Thoughts. As in the excerpt above, the story of The Golden Arm was told as a kid at summer camp around the campfire in the middle of the woods. The titular man’s artificial golden arm has been stolen after his death, so he returns as a ghost to get his golden arm back.
Sep 14, 2021 · In the episode “Back to Nature,” the underrated Mr. Griffith tells a variation in which the man who lost his arm was an old hermit, in search of treasure, who lost his original arm to a bear attack. He stabs the bear to death with remaining hand, finds the treasure, then uses it to buy a golden arm.
The woman’s husband was a greedy man who saw his wife’s gleaming golden limb and thought only of all the things he could buy with it. He tried to persuade her to part with the arm but she wouldn’t hear of it. In a fit of rage, the man killed his wife. He took her golden arm and buried her body in the woods behind his house.
Embrace the Halloween spirit with this classic horror fiction story. This scary story is tailored for both terrifying and entertaining adults, as well as a v...
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