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16375
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North Carolina is well-known today for team sports, including basketball and football. The state was also known in the 1800s and 1900s for its role in horse racing. It is not well-remembered, however, that antebellum North Carolina sports entertainment included fistic gladiators, a form of boxing popular during this period.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 2, May 1974,
p55-62
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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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16377
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Topsail Island has long been considered Blackbeard's favorite base on the North Carolina coast. Fishermen around Hampstead will tell you that this pirate city at the \"White Hills\" numbered over 2,000 villains, and that Blackbeard actually gave the island its name.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Aug 1974,
p111-112, il
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16382
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In the early years of the 20th-century, the final event in the corn-growing season was shucking. It was the most convenient way to get the corn ready for storing, and combined the labor of the whole community with the opportunity for socializing. Benton relates some corn shucking stories from Sampson County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Nov 1974,
p131-139, il
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16383
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Bird and fowl augury was, and is, widely practiced in folk communities. The list of folk beliefs centering on birds is massive: they are proclaimers of omens, revealers of secrets, originators of music, messengers of the gods, and guardians of the tree of knowledge.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Nov 1974,
p159-160
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16384
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The railroad has been probably the greatest single catalyst for folklore in American life. Both religious and secular songs have used the image of the train as a basic vehicle of expression. Railroads also embody American democracy, the spirit of the American frontier, and the divide between management and labor.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Nov 1974,
p169-175, bibl
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16385
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On the coast of North Carolina in Carteret County lies a small village known to its inhabitants as Salter Path. The villagers were once whaling people and still make a living from the sea. Taylor presents several tradition tales about Salter Path.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 1, Apr 1973,
p10-14
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16386
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One of the most popular handicrafts passed down through the ages is that of making toys for children. One such popular toy is the whooey stick--a notched stick when vigorously rubbed by another causes a propeller to turn.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 1, Apr 1973,
p23-24, il
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16387
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Unfortunately, ghosts seem to have been greatly maligned. Often they are seen as hideous creatures that come back with malicious intent. But judging by hundreds of tales, nothing could be farther from the truth.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 2, May 1973,
p55-57
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16388
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On the northeast branch of the Cape Fear River lies a small village called Rocky Point which saw its heyday during the period preceding the Revolutionary War through the close of the Civil War. During that time, some of the most prominent citizens of North Carolina inhabited the stately plantations which lined the curving river. Underneath the quiet surface of Rocky Point flows a rich current of folklore which infuses mystery and life into the seemingly static surroundings. At least four houses are rumored to be haunted, and voodoo still plays its role in the black section of the community. One such legend surrounds a man-made canal known as Swann's Cut.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 2, May 1973,
p64-69
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16389
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Traditional folksong, quite apart from its intrinsic artistic worth, serves as an important mirror of culture as well, providing both an oral history of local traditions, and supplying social and psychological indicators. Joyner analyzes the repertory of Nancy Jones of Scotland County, North Carolina in an attempt to illuminate the role of the folksinger in sustaining tradition, the role of tradition in shaping the culture in which the individual lives, and on the interrelations between the three.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 3, Sept 1973,
p89-97, il
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16390
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In plantation times, Christmas was a time of relative freedom for slaves. The plantation journals and travel accounts often not only record this, but give elaborate descriptions of how the slaves celebrated. In many places in the circum-Caribbean area, including the Old South, the most dramatic feature of the Christmas celebration lay in the wandering groups of costumed players who went from one plantation to another.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 3, Sept 1973,
p120-131
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16395
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Cherokee myth proffers its own justifications for the peculiarities of individual animal species. The Cherokee myths are closely akin to other \"just-so\" stories in that the animals individual peculiarities result from a mutation of the animal from an existing condition to a condition which is altered. The Cherokee myths deviate in that the animals in the Cherokee myths are not the same animals that exist on earth today, the mythic animals of the Cherokee being larger and more neatly perfect than their contemporaries, and being organized socially and politically like the Cherokee nation.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 3, Sept 1973,
p147-154
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16396
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Herb doctors filled a gap in American history when doctors were scarce and expensive. Today the herb doctors are very few and tend to take their secrets with them. In Scotland and Robeson counties of North Carolina herb doctors still work with various herbs in various methods.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 4, Nov 1973,
p166-170
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16397
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The muddy water of the Tar River in Edgecombe County near Tarboro moves sluggishly between the ready, oak-shadowed banks as slowly and sullenly as it did centuries ago. The grist mill that once stood on the curve below the dam is gone and no sign of the dam remains. But on misty August nights when the yellow moon tilts on end and the rain crow calls for rain, the cry of the banshee that haunts the river splits the mist in a shrill, wild scream that echoes from bank to bank.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1971,
p11-14
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