Green man
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Title |
Green man |
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Alternative Title |
Green man, the; Raymond Robinson; Robinson, Raymond; |
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Genre |
Legend -- People -- Eccentric |
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Description |
Gloria Walker's tanscribed interview of Barbara Folen about the Green Man in Pennsylvania. According to Folen, the Green Man wes shocked somehow and turned green. He would only go out at night because he couldn't go out in the day. |
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Informant |
Folen, Barbara |
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Collector |
Walker, Gloria |
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Date of Original |
1966-02-12 |
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Contextual Information |
The Green Man is actually Raymond Robinson. He was injured by an electrical line on the Morado Bridge outside of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, as a child while trying to see a bird's nest. This same electrical line killed a child less than a year prior to Robinson's accident. Due to the shock, Robinson was very badly scarred and lost his eyes, nose, one ear, and one arm. He was not green at all. According to those who knew him, Robinson was a kind man who took nightly walks and never had a bad word for anyone. Robinson lived with his family until he eventually retired to the Beaver County Geriatric Center, where he died in 1985. |
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Repository |
Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 |
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Coverage |
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny County -- Bellevue -- 1966 |
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Subject |
Legends
People
People with disabilities
Accidents
Electricity
Electric shocks
Disfigured persons
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WV3 Subject |
Folklore
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Type |
text
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Material Type |
Interviews
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Date Digital |
2011-06-06 |
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Technical Metadata |
image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan |
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Copyright |
Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection. |
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Item ID |
isuf-TheGreenMan001 |
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