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Title	Green man
Alternative Title	Green man, the; Raymond Robinson; Robinson, Raymond;
Genre	Legend -- People -- Eccentric
Description	Gloria Walker's transcribed personal account of the Green Man in Pennsylvania. According to Walker, a little boy was flying a kite and it got caught in power lines. A teenager climbed up to get the kite and got electricuted. The teenager lived, but he was disfigured so he looked like a monster and he was kind of green. He only went out at night after that so he wouldn't scare people.
Informant	Walker, Gloria
Collector	Walker, Gloria
Date of Original	1966-02-12
Contextual Information	The Green Man is actually Raymond Robinson. He was injured by an electrical line on the Morado Bridge outside of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, as a child while trying to see a bird's nest. This same electrical line killed a child less than a year prior to Robinson's accident. Due to the shock, Robinson was very badly scarred and lost his eyes, nose, one ear, and one arm. He was not green at all. According to those who knew him, Robinson was a kind man who took nightly walks and never had a bad word for anyone. Robinson lived with his family until he eventually retired to the Beaver County Geriatric Center, where he died in 1985.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny County -- Pittsburgh -- 1966
Subject	Legends People People with disabilities Accidents Electricity Electric shocks Disfigured persons
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-06
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-TheGreenMan002

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