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Title	Licked hand, Vigo County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Babysitter
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Cindy Allen's typewritten variant of The Licked Hand urban legend as collected by Sharon Fryar. In this variant, a girl is babysitting for a couple and is reassured by their dog who licks her hand to let her know everything is okay. After hearing a noise outside, the dog fails to lick her hand, and she finds it violently killed in the bathroom.
Informant	Allen, Cindy
Collector	Fryar, Sharon
Date of Original	1973-11-21
Contextual Information	In most variants of this legend, there is a note from the killer confessing to licking the girl's hand. This point is missing in this variant.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1973
Subject	Dogs Babysitting 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-TheLickedHand010

Licked hand, Vigo County, Indiana

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