Rating
Title	Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Local legend
Description	Barbara Livingston's transcribed account of the legend of Stiffy Green as collected by Shawn Stoll. According to the legend, Stiffy was a dog who was stuffed and placed in his master's tomb when his master died. Supposedly, the ghost of the dog still protects the tomb from intruders by howling when anyone approaches. The mausoleum is located in Highland Lawn Cemetery in Vigo County, Indiana.
Informant	Livingston, Barbara
Collector	Stoll, Shawn
Date of Original	1991-03-06
Contextual Information	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 -- 1991
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-StiffyGreen038

Stiffy Green, Vigo County, Indiana

Description