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Title	Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Local legend
Description	Cindy Thomas's transcribed account of the legend of Stiffy Green as collected by herself. According to this variant, a man requested that his Great Dane be stuffed and placed his mausoleum when it died. The dog can supposedly be found lying at the end of his master's coffin despite being stuffed in a sitting position. The mausoleum is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Vigo County, Indiana.
Informant	Thomas, Cindy
Collector	Thomas, Cindy
Date of Original	1971-12
Contextual Information	In most variants of this legend, the dog is a bulldog rather than a Great Dane. In fact, the actual statue of Stiffy Green is a bulldog. 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-StiffyGreen014

Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana

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