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16356
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Since 1960, F. Roy Johnson, author, editor, and publisher, has become a one-man industry mining veins of history and folklore in one of the first-settled regions of North Carolina. Working out of his Johnson Publishing Company office in Murfreesboro, Johnson saw an opportunity and began to record and preserve the long-neglected resources of northeastern North Carolina.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 1, May 1977,
p31
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Record #:
16400
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All three of Ovid Williams Pierce's critically acclaimed novels are set in a farming community in and around the imaginary town of Warren in eastern North Carolina. Since they are inextricably bound up with the same community, roughly the author's native district around Weldon in Halifax County, it is only natural that one finds a rich vein of folklore in his works. The richest vein is that provided by the lore of the African Americans, who take on increasingly important roles in each successive novel.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p66-72
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Record #:
35710
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A seemingly eccentric schoolteacher in North Carolina confessed to be an important French refugee who was hiding in America until Napoleon Bonaparte could claim the French throne.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 3, Aug 1975,
p67-69, il
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Record #:
35292
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Based in humor from the southwest, “Some Adventures of Simon Suggs” became a famous literature about frontier life. Complete with illustrations and a short biography of the author of the novel, the similes found in the book are categorized by their comparisons.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 16 Issue 1, May 1968,
p53-57
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Record #:
16372
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Of all birds of ill omen, the belled buzzard is among the most terrifying to the people of North Carolina, for he signifies the presence of death and corruption. Belled buzzards have been reported in Clay, Davidson, Granville, and Beaufort counties. Most sightings report death to some victim, not caused by the buzzard but by the hand of other men. West presents several stories surrounding the belled buzzard.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 4, Nov 1975,
p118-120
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16376
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A hundred years ago Dr. W. G. Poole of Elizabeth City was called to treat an aged women while vacationing on the Outer Banks at Nags Head. As payment, he was given a portrait of a young lady, later identified as the only daughter of Aaron Burr--Theodosia Burr. Her disappearance along the coast of North Carolina remains a cloaked mystery although the portrait served to make her legendary on the Outer Banks.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Aug 1974,
p99-102, il
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