Rating
Title	Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Local legend
Description	Andrea Davis's transcribed account of the legend of Stiffy Green as collected by Kerrie Davis. According to the legend, Stiffy was a dog who was stuffed and placed in his master's tomb upon his master's death. Supposedly, the dog's eyes will glow green and he can be heard barking when intruders approach the mausoleum, which is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Vigo County, Indiana.
Informant	Davis, Andrea
Collector	Davis, Kerrie
Date of Original	1986-04-23
Contextual Information	This variant also notes that Stiffy Green might have been a wolf rather than a dog. 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 -- 1986
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-StiffyGreen033

Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana

Description