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Items with subject 'Folklife - Folk Stories and Legends'
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Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted House: Strange Noises or Cries
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 haunted houses along the Eastern Shore that had strange noises or cries being heard. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted Houses (Misc.) II
by Salisbury University Students (1969 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1969 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the ghosts, strange events, or other supernatural legends that occurred in haunted houses on the Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted Houses (Misc.) III
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 mysterious and strange events that occurred in a haunted house located somewhere along the Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted Houses with Moving Doors
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, all stories recorded occurred at a haunted house that had incidents of doors opening and closing mysteriously. These stories are about strange events that happened there and take place in various locations along the Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted Houses with Rattling Chains
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 stories about folk legends. This collection of stories focus around the topic of various haunted houses that included the sounds of rattling slave chains. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story about the haunted house.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted Houses with Strange Lights
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 haunted houses that included a element of strange lights being seen. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted Houses with Violent or Mysterious Deaths
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 violent or mysterious deaths that occurred in haunted houses located across the Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Haunted Places and Ships
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 are about a haunted house or haunted ship and the strange or violent events that happened there. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Headless People and Animals
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 encounters with headless men, women, horses, or dogs somewhere along the Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Hole-in-the-Wall Church
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 churches which were hit during the war thus gaining holes in their structure. As well as various stories of a woman whom passed away with a expensive ring on her finger, when grave robbers try to steal it she wakes up and scares them away. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Holly Hall
by Salisbury University Students (1972 – 1972)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during 1972, former Salisbury University student Donna Collins collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the strange events that occurred at the haunted house; Holly Hall located in Elkton, Maryland. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Local Legends: Indians
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 about mysterious events involving Indians from the Eastern Shore and other locations. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.