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Title	Beehive hairdos, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
Alternative Title	Bee hive
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is a handwritten variant of the Beehive Hairdo urban legend as collected by Bill Denny from a former teacher. The story describes a girl who died after bees nested in her beehive hairdo.
Informant	Anonymous
Collector	Denny, Bill
Date of Original	1961
Contextual Information	The collected states that he believes girls were told this story to discourage them from getting the hairstyle.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Pennsylvania -- Lawrence County -- 1961
Subject	Hairstyles Beehives Death
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-14
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-BeehiveHairdos001

Beehive hairdos, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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