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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Boone County, Indiana
Alternative Title	The Ritual
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Kathie Criss's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Andrea French. In this variant, a woman stops at a gas station on her way home from a shopping trip where the attendant asks her to remain in the store while he phones the police. When the police arrive, they discover a black man with an axe waiting in the back seat of the woman's car. He goes on to explain that he is supposed to kill the woman in order to be inducted into a gang.
Informant	Criss, Kathie
Collector	French, Andrea
Date of Original	1995-03-29
Contextual Information	In most variants of this legend, gang activity does not play a factor.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Boone County -- 1995
Subject	Automobiles Criminals Gangs
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-01
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-AssailantInTheBackseat041

Assailant in the backseat, Boone County, Indiana

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