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Title	Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Stiffy Green
Genre	Local legend
Description	Paula Prose's transcribed account of the legend of Stiffy Green as collected by Jim Peo. According to the legend, Stiffy Green was a dog who belonged to an elderly man. When the man died, Stiffy was stuffed and placed in his mausoleum. The legend states that the ghost of Stiffy Green still guards the man's mausoleum to this day. The mausoleum is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Vigo County, Indiana.
Informant	Prose, Paula
Collector	Peo, Jim
Date of Original	198-05-02
Contextual Information	See Motif-Index of Folk Literature B301.1.3 Faithful animal doesn't allow anybody to come near master's corpse.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1968
Subject	Dogs Tombs & sepulchral monuments Ghosts
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-12-07
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-StiffyGreen002

Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana

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