Record #:

16511

Author(s):

Walser, Richard

Abstract:

The legends revolving around the origin of the word \"Tar Heel\" are numerous. The two most frequently cited yarns come from explanations in Clark's NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENTS (1901) and in Creecy's GRANDFATHER'S TALES OF NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY (1901).

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p3-4 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Tar Heels

Record #:

16512

Author(s):

Parker, Cherry

Abstract:

Jugtown, as we know it today, was started in 1917 by Jacques Busbee, an artist from a famous old North Carolina family. In the early days, most potters had made jugs for distilleries. When prohibition was enacted, much of the North Carolina pottery making stopped. A few potters kept at their trade, making jars, churns, crocks, and pie dishes. In fact, you might credit the staring of Jugtown to a pie dish.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p5-6 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pottery

Record #:

16513

Author(s):

Barker, Addison

Abstract:

BLUM's FARMER'S AND PLANTER'S ALMANAC, founded in 1828 by John Christian Blum includes a large portion of weather signs and lore.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p11-19 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Weather; Almanacs; Blum, John Christian, 1784-1854; Folklore--Weather

Record #:

35136

Author(s):

McGavran, Edward G.

Abstract:

A story that the author’s father had told him from his time as a missionary in India. It consists of his experience with a lake that apparently had a devil in it that would drown anything that tried to swim in it.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p1-2 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklore and history--North Carolina

Record #:

35137

Author(s):

Unknown

Abstract:

This is a ballad about the life and death of Josiah Wedgwood Sheffield, also known as Old Joe Shuffle, who was a potter at Jugtown.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p6 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jugtown Pottery (Firm); Folk music; Ballads; Folk songs

Record #:

35138

Author(s):

Cushman, Rebecca

Abstract:

This article is an excerpt from a book the author was currently working on, and dealt with her brief time spent in a mountain settlement, trying to separate folktale from truth.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p7-8 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk tales--North Carolina; Mountain people--North Carolina, Western

Record #:

35139

Author(s):

Smith, O.H.

Abstract:

The story of how a town full of illiterate people gained their information in 1814, by electing the one man in town who could read as their county reader.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p9-10 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Literacy; Folk tales--North Carolina

Record #:

35140

Author(s):

Barker, Addison

Abstract:

A collection of lore surrounding weather outcomes in North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p11-19 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklore--Weather; Superstition

Record #:

35141

Author(s):

Stephenson, William

Abstract:

A ballad about a mother who kills her newborn sons, and then is foretold by some children that she will go to hell in seven years’ time.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p20-21 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk music; Ballads; Mothers; Mothers--Mortality

Record #:

35142

Author(s):

Medley, Mary Louise

Abstract:

A collection of anecdotes from Anson County.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p22-24 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Anecdotes; Anson County--History