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Title	Eccentric dirty people, Brazil, Indiana
Alternative Title	Brazil, Indiana, dirty people;
Genre	Legends -- People -- Eccentrics
Description	Katherine Fulk's transcribed interview of Shirley Waldridge's account with a dirty man. According to Waldridge, she and her sister were told not to open the door to anyone on Halloween. They opened the door to everyone including an old man who was incredibly dirty. He came in the house and chased the young girls. The girls were terrified, but the man was actually their mother in a costume. She was proving that it isn't always safe to open the door to people.
Informant	Waldridge, Shirley
Collector	Fulk, Katherine
Date of Original	1987-04-19
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Clay County -- Brazil -- 1987
Subject	Dirt Dirty people Legends Practical jokes Halloween
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-05-24
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-DirtyPeople009

Eccentric dirty people, Brazil, Indiana

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