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Items with subject 'Folklife - Folk Stories and Legends'
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Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Insane Murderers
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1971 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected local legends. For this collection, these stories tell of insane murderers from the Eastern Shore and the deadly acts they committed. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Joshua Thomas
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of Joshua Thomas also known as "Parsons on the Island", a Eastern Shore local known for his unique abilities for always being right. The collection also includes a description of Thomas's epitaph. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Lewis Howard
by Salisbury University Students (1971, 1971)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1971, former Salisbury University student, Karin Pusey collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of Lewis Howard, who was a older man who lived alone in Devils Woodyard and was found dead one day with parts of his body eaten off. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Lower Eastern Shore (Misc.)
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of ghosts and other supernatural legends that occurred somewhere on the lower Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Lynchings, Hangings, and Suicides by Hanging
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of lynching's, hangings, suicides by hanging that occurred along the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Mermaid Sightings
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1972)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews with local Eastern Shore resident Eldon Willing, Sr. during the years of 1971 to 1972, former Salisbury University student and professor, Rita Park and Anita Hunsberger collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of mermaid sightings on two separate occasions on the waters near Chance, Maryland. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Merry Sherwood Haunted House
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected local legends. For this collection, all stories recorded occurred at the Merry Sherwood Mansion also known as the Dunwandrin, located in Berlin, Maryland. These stories are about strange events that happened there as well as the collection offers a brief history of the estate. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Mid-Shore of Maryland (Misc.)
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of ghosts, strange events, and other supernatural legends that occurred somewhere on the Mid-Shore of Maryland. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Monsters
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of monster encounters or sightings that occurred somewhere along on the Eastern Shore of Maryland as well as other tales of well known monsters such as Big Foot and Dracula. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Mummified and Preserved Remains
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1971)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1971, former Salisbury University students and professors, Janet Montgomery, Patricia Holland, and Pat Clifford, collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of mysteriously mummified or preserved corpses that were discovered somewhere on the Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Origin of Family Names
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
Between 1971 to 1973, former Salisbury University students Kathleen Riddle and David Thompson conducted various interviews about local legends surrounding different family surnames. Surnames detailed are the Daybreaks, Buzzards, and Barricaders
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Patty Cannon
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various story of Patty Cannon, a woman who would capture or kidnap African Americans and sell them as slaves. She would keep them in her house located at Johnson's Cross Roads. Other stories talk about how her house or grave was haunted. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.