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Title	Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Local legend
Description	Steve Higgens's transcribed account of the legend of Stiffy Green as collected by Lee Stewart. Higgens describes the dog, Stiffy Green, who was stuffed and placed in his master's mausoleum when the man died. According to the legend, if you go to the mausoleum at night, Stiffy's eyes glow green. The mausoleum is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Vigo County, Indiana.
Informant	Higgens, Steve
Collector	Stewart, Lee
Date of Original	1968-05-07
Contextual Information	The informant claims to have gone to the cemetery and witnessed Stiffy move for himself. 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-StiffyGreen003

Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana

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