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Title	Bonds Chapel
Genre	Local legend
Description	This is Scott Meneilly's typewritten account of a variant of the legend of the Bonds Chapel tombstone. According to legend some people hung a bum with a chain blaming him for killing a girl. Before he died, he said that a chain on his grave would prove his innocence. Sure enough a chain now grows on the grave.
Informant	Meneilly, Scott
Collector	Meneilly, Scott
Date of Original	1979
Contextual Information	Scott Meneilly lists the various dangers of visiting the gravestone, listing the various misfortunes he and his friends have had while out there. This suggests some level of bad luck from the tombstone.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Orange County -- Orleans -- 1979
Subject	Crime Graves Chains Supernatural
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-02-10
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf- Bonds Chapel052

Bonds Chapel

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