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35176
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A brief introduction about the reasoning behind superstitions leads to several lists of superstitions, which are organized by category.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 1961,
p4-22
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Record #:
35177
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The retelling of the spectre cavalry fight which was circulated by newspapers all over the country in 1811. Supposedly, several inhabitants of the pass had seen a ghostly battle ensue, complete with sights, sounds, victors, and losers. Twenty years after the event, the author went to the ravine to explore and was guided by a grandson of one of the original story’s claimants. The guide assured him that it was merely a trick of the light and temperature differences that made the people see what they believed to be a supernatural phenomenon.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 1961,
p23-26
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35178
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A reprinted magazine article from 1790 that describes an unusually large boy hailing from Halifax, NC who was exhibited in Philadelphia in 1787.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 1961,
p27-28
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35179
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A collection of stories, unknown whether they are true, exaggerated, or completely false, circulated by students about the faculty and/or staff of Washington and Lee University.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 1961,
p32-34
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35180
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A ballad depicting the setting at the Bennett house at the end of the Civil War on April 26, 1865.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 1961,
p36-39
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Record #:
35181
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The author recounts the types of conversations he heard while chronically travelling around Mississippi on a bus.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p1-5
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Record #:
35182
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This is a list of folk speech submitted by the author’s students. It is organized alphabetically with analysis and translation for each word.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p6-21
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Record #:
35183
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The telling of three Korean folktales: “The Yangpan and the Barley,” “The Best Liar, and the Yangpan’s Daughter,” and “The Peddler and the Tiger.”
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p26-29
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Record #:
35184
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Grace Sherwood was accused of and tried for practicing witchcraft in the late 17th/early 18th century. This article describes the accusations, trial, and judgments that surround the case.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p36-39
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Record #:
35185
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The author had asked young school children of any riddles they knew, and this article is part of the conversation he had with one of the children, who went through a list of jokes.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p40-41
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Record #:
35186
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This article contains three fictional stories, “The Tobacco Auctioneer,” “The Patron Saint,” and “A Worthless Lawyer.”
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p
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Record #:
35187
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A ballad describing the true events of a rescue mission done by U.S.S. Paul Revere.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p48-49
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Record #:
35188
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A ballad describing the battleship North Carolina’s return to its home port by captain Piggy Purriss.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 1, July 1962,
p50-56
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Record #:
35189
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This is a letter written by the author in 1812, describing the events of a social holiday he partook in with several friends: hiking to Table Rock and partying on the way there and back.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Dec 1962,
p11-13
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Record #:
35190
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This is an anonymously published poem written in a combination of English and Latin, describing an incident of a student of throwing a rock at the University of Mississippi’s president, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. Deduced later to have been written by President Longstreet, he pokes fun at himself for being the victim of the event.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Dec 1962,
p14-16
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