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Title	Licked hand, Crawford County, Illinois
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Toni Earleywine's typewritten variant of The Licked Hand urban legend as collected by herself. In this variant, a man buys a his wife a dog to keep her company because he is sick and dying. After he dies, the dog sleeps near the woman and licks her hand at night to comfort her. One morning, she wakes up to discover the dog has been violently killed after believing the dog has spent the night by her side.
Informant	Earleywine, Toni
Collector	Earleywine, Toni
Date of Original	1973-03-21
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Illinois -- Crawford County -- 1973
Subject	Dogs Criminals Homicides
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-05-31
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-TheLickedHand009

Licked hand, Crawford County, Illinois

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