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35670
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A collection of stories from teenage boys about ghosts, haunted houses, murder, and more.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Aug 1974,
p115-118
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35737
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A collection of stories about ghosts, stilling, fishing, death omens, and animals. Written by various authors.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Aug 1976,
p64-68
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35884
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In addition to works of folklore related materials, the author also included historic site archaeology and restoration, farmhouses, jails, and other public buildings.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1988,
p14-39, bibl
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35674
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In general, ghosts tend to get a bad rap; they’re frightening and usually originate from some sort of gruesome or untimely death. However, these two stories paint ghosts as helpful creatures, who led people to find hidden money.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Nov 1974,
p155-158
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24867
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With observations on how the study of folklore has changed since the 1960’s, Katy Clune explores how folklore can be applied to today’s culture. Clune explores how folklore can remain relevant today including using the internet as a powerful tool.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 62 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 2015,
p32-35, por
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35721
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Throughout folklore, frogs are often associated with rain and one particular family that now lives in Columbus, Ohio, believe that frogs come to the earth via rain.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 4, Nov 1975,
p121-124
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13957
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Did Captain Jenkins and his crew really kill a sea monster off the coast of North Carolina? Well, they claimed they did, and the serpent has been seen no more.
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35469
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Several superstitions and stories concerning the supernatural that was told to the author as a boy by his father.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p173-176
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16305
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Although folk narratives in the southern United States and Ireland are similar, each represent a unique part of their respective cultures while combining to form a single subgenre of folk tales: the Jack Tale. Henigan discusses the Jack Tale tradition of Ireland and the United States to examine the differences in order to demonstrate the ways in which each depends upon and reflects its own cultural climate.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1987,
p87-105
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35446
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Kathleen Morehouse wrote Rain on the Just in the latter half of the nineteenth century, about the fictional Allen family in Wilkesboro, NC. A synopsis of the novel is given, and then the elements of folklore, particularly folk speech, are identified and discussed.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p47-54
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14344
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The early history of Yancey County has long intrigued the historian as being representative of pioneer days in the unbroken wilderness of the Southern Appalachians. The men of that country of high peaks and tremendous ranged had the experience of Indians, and old tales accord this ability to Nate Dempsey and Tom Wilson, who have been kept alive by legend, as they lived as neighbors and fought as friend or foe.
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35660
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In 1901, Nell Cropsey was murdered. Although her boyfriend was charged with her murder due to circumstantial evidence, the true events were never known. This has caused Nell’s story to become a legend, and different speculations and variations arose from the mystery. Along with the stories came several folksongs about the incident.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 2, May 1974,
p43-54, il
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13974
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North Carolina's yarn crop refers not to the kind of yarn that is woven into cloth but storytelling and tall tales.
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35538
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A collection of 17 stories and folktales written by children, each with an accompanying drawing.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 3, Aug 1972,
p108-114, il
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37820
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A few tidbits about snake folklore, ducks, a fishing story, and a tool used for removing fishing hooks.
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