Record #:

35141

Author(s):

Stephenson, William

Abstract:

A ballad about a mother who kills her newborn sons, and then is foretold by some children that she will go to hell in seven years’ time.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957, p20-21

Subject(s):

Folk music; Ballads; Mothers; Mothers--Mortality