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Title	Bad babysitter, Vigo County, Indiana
Alternative Title	The starved child
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Deb Cleveland's typewritten account of a babysitting urban legend as collected by Kathy Bennett regarding a couple who leaves their child for the babysitter to catch their place on time. When they return home from their trip, they discovered their child has starved to death because the babysitter never showed up.
Informant	Cleveland, Deb
Collector	Bennett, Kathy
Date of Original	1971-12-01
Contextual Information	The informant states that she heard that this story happened in the Indianapolis, Indiana, area.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1971
Subject	Babysitting Infants Dead persons
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-05-26
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-BadBabysitters003

Bad babysitter, Vigo County, Indiana

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