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Title	Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Local legend
Description	Trudy Meneely's transcribed account of the legend of Stiffy Green as collected by Dallas Meneely. According to this variant, Stiffy Green was a dog who died of heartbreak shortly after his master's death. The man's family had the dog stuffed and placed his head on top of his master's tombstone. The grave is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Vigo County, Indiana.
Informant	Meneely, Trudy
Collector	Meneely, Dallas
Date of Original	1971-07-06
Contextual Information	In most variants of the legend, the entire dog is stuffed and placed in the master's mausoleum, not just the head. See Motif-Index of Folk Literature B301.1.3 Faithful animal doesn't allow anybody to come near to master's corpse.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1971
Subject	Dogs Ghosts Tombs & sepulchral monuments
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-StiffyGreen012

Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana

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