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What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project... read more

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On September 9, 1939, in Wise County, Virginia, a man named Samuel Simpson Adams told Virginia Writers' Project folklore collector James Taylor Adams a story about a man who was attacked by a panther as he carried a sack of pork across the mountain on his way home from helping a neighbor butcher hogs.

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