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Title	Beehive hairdos, Marion County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Beehive hairdo
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Cassandra Brooks's typewritten variant of the Beehive Hairdo urban legend as collected by herself. She states that she heard the story in high school about a girl who did not comb out her beehive hairstyle for months. Subsequently, a classmate claims to have seen a cockroach crawl out of her hair.
Informant	Brooks, Cassandra
Collector	Brooks, Cassandra
Date of Original	1963-1964
Contextual Information	The informant states that she "must have believed the story" when she was in high school which implies that she no longer believes the story to be true today.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Marion County -- 1963
Subject	Hairstyles Beehives Insects
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-BeehiveHairdos003

Beehive hairdos, Marion County, Indiana

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