Collection SummaryTitle: Legends of the Supernatural in Southwestern Wisconsin Project CollectionDates: 1991-1992 Creator: Stotts, Stuart; ; Matson, Elizabeth Unique Identifier: CSUMC0002-CG Contents: UW-Madison Folklore Program: 2 folders, 6 audiocassettes; James P. Leary: 1 folder Publisher: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures 901 University Bay Drive Summary: Two storytellers recorded supernatural stories from 6 individual tellers and a middle school group of 10-15 in Wisconsin's Iowa County during 1991-92. They obtained over 50 stories and story segments including legends, urban legends, memorats, personal experience narratives, and superstitions featuring the Ridgeway ghost, ghostly animals, gamblers, vanishing hitchhikers, poltergeists, haunted houses, troubled deaths, and more. The interviewers transcribed the recorded stories and used them as the basis for versions they published in The Bookcase Ghost and tell to public audiences. Language: Manuscripts and sound recordings are in English. URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-csumc-csumc0002cg ↑ Bookmark this ↑ |
