Consecration of washington, the

Charles Montgomery Skinner was an American writer, mostly known as a collector of North American folklore. ?The Consecration Of Washington? is a short story, entered in the collection ?Myth and legends of our own land?. The action happens in 1773 and narrates about one old Pietist monk, who could be a rich man in German, but he decided to come to the new world to pray and to live a simple life with his children. Once, in a dream he hears a voice, saying, "I will send a deliverer to the new world who shall save my people from bondage, as my Son saved them from spiritual death." This night a man comes to their house, who is destined to become a great. Start your familiar with American history and culture through the Skinner? collection ?Myth and legends of our own land?!