Bibliography

Below is a list of academic and supporting sources currently used for this project. Additional primary and secondary sources, including historical newspaper articles and regional books featured on folklore websites.

• Bauman, Richard. 1971. "Differential Identity and the Social Base of Folklore." Journal of American Folklore 84 (331): 31–41.
• Basso, Keith H. 1984. "Stalking with Stories: Names, Places, and Moral Narratives among the Western Apache." In Text, Play, and Story, edited by Edward Bruner, 19–55. Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society.
• Brunvand, Jan Harold. 2001. The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Harden, John. 1980. The Devil’s Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
• Harden, John. 1949. Tar Heel Ghosts. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
• Sims, Martha, and Martine Stephens. 2011. Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions, 2nd ed. Logan: Utah State University Press.
• Weigle, Marta. 2012. "What We Should Have Learned from Américo Paredes: The Politics of Communicability and the Making of Folkloristics." Journal of American Folklore 125 (495): 91–108.
• Roberts, Nancy. North Carolina Ghosts and Legends. University of South Carolina Press, 2019.
• "The Devil’s Tramping Ground." Orange County Observer, 18 Feb. 1882. PDF Archive.
• "The Devil's Tramping Ground" Wilmington Morning Star, Jan. 1882. PDF Archive.
• "Weird Tale of a Fishing Frolic, Not a Fish Caught but Sights Seen. Devil's Foot Print" Daily News and Observer, 30 July 1905. PDF Archive.