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, will be added as the project continues to develop.

• 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.