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16398
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Old Hill lifts its peaks far above the fertile valleys of eastern Forsyth County. On the tiptop is a large opening, now crowded with debris and undergrowth, its rocky, perpendicular sides glazed by wind and rain. This is the deserted gold mine that still holds the spirit of Elizabeth Reed. Every time the wind whips around the crags and crevices, there issues from the depths of the pit an agonizing wail.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1971,
p14-17
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16399
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Time Was, a novel by John Foster West, a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University, is full of folklore and folk language on almost every page. The novel exposes various folk remedies and superstitions, folk songs and games, folk imagery, and folk speech and poetry.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p40-46
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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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16401
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At the time of his official retirement from the classroom in 1971, Richard Walser had been teaching in the Department of English at North Carolina State University since 1946. He served as president of the North Carolina Folklore Society, and was co-editor of North Carolina Folklore from 1966-1970. This article provides a bibliography of his books, novels, articles, edited collections, reviews, stories, contributions, and more.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p87-96, bibl
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16402
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The nomenclature of tobacco has been exceptionally diverse. Remarks from 19th- and 20th-century authors support this claim and Tanner provides a listing of the various terms used in writing about tobacco.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 3, May 1971,
p116-122
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16403
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Eastern North Carolina is one of numerous areas of the United States with an extremely rich heritage of American culture, much of which is still living in the songs and tales of eastern North Carolinians. In order to preserve and study this living culture, the Department of English at East Carolina University established during the 1969-1970 academic year a Folklore Archive. The Archive houses nearly 100 student collections in written and tape form, prepared as class projects.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 3, May 1971,
p131-134
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16404
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The 20th-century has been beset by a swift change in social and material customs, though some people of eastern North Carolina continue to remember the old ways. Perhaps one of the unique tributes paid to custom is several observances of Old Christmas. While the celebration of Old Christmas at Rodanthe has become widely known, people in Hertford and Martin counties also still observe the \"original and genuine\" Christmas.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p145-150
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16405
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Superstition gives us a strange world at Christmas time. Streams flow backward at the hour of Christ's birth, trees sigh in remembrance of the crucifixion, birds sing at the hour of His birth, and rain or snow stops.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p151-152
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16406
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A fascinating remnant of the ancient midwinter fire-festival appears today, celebrated regularly on Christmas even and New Year's Eve by the African American people of rural Bladen County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p153-156
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10.The Holy Ghost Shell by Moore, Louis T. North Carolina Folklore Journal Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971
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16407
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The Holy Ghost Shell, or the Sand Dollar, is found along the beaches and strands of the Atlantic seaboard and in profusion along the beaches of North Carolina. When the shell is broken open, several symbols are revealed that includes the star of Bethlehem, the Easter Lily, and five points symbolic of the five wounds given Christ before crucifixion.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p158-159, il
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16421
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Anglo-American ballads provide a valid means of analyzing people, in certain instances more nearly reliable than such direct methods as asking what they believe. In some cases traditional ballads are even more trustworthy a mirror of life than are compositions form the fine arts.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p185-190
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16422
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The conjure doctor in eastern North Carolina evolved from a tradition of African voodoo, native Indian practices, and Anglo-American folk healing. The perpetuation of the conjure doctor in the South centralized in areas of low economic and educational standards.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Feb 1972,
p21-29, il
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16423
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George Black is a folk artist from Winston-Salem who has gained international recognition because he still uses traditional ways, even though technology has nearly eliminated his craft in North Carolina. He makes bricks by hand.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Feb 1972,
p30-35, il, f
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16424
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To the people of Chatham County, the legend of the Devil's Tramping Ground has been around for as long as anyone can remember. The basis of this legend is a path where no form of vegetation is able to survive although there are trees and grass on the very edge. The legend has grow up around this natural curiosity as the scene of the Devil's nightly visits, at which time he paces the path to conjure up evil deeds.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Feb 1972,
p47-53, il
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16425
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Paul Green, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was born on a farm near Lillington, North Carolina. A graduate of Buie's Creek Academy and the University of North Carolina, Green's 1927 play In Abraham's Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote some twenty-five to thirty movies and numerous other plays.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 2, May 1972,
p75
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