TEXT 1: The first text is about a cemetery in Central Indiana. Lee says “Well there’s a cemetery and a down toward Bedford that is famous for logger stone and this logger stone is about a guy that a, was a logger and he was killed by a violent death, by a logging stone, and every year around Halloween another chain link appears on his tomb-stone and it is in the shape of a cross wrapped around his tombstone, and like I said every year another link appears. It’s
not painted on; it’s not etched in there. Don’t know how it appears, but it does appear and after it gets so long then the next year after it shortens by one link and there’s no explanation for it. People have taken pictures and everything, you know the links appear, but they never go away for the whole year till after Halloween has passed.”
Context: The informants name is Lelann Aubin and he has lived in Central Indiana all his life. This interview was conducted outside on a starry night. It was tape recorded and there was one other person present during the interview besides the collector. Lee is very effective when he tells the story and he really enjoys scaring people. Lee, at the time of the interview, is 21 and male. He comes from a big family and is the brother of the collector.
Source: Lorne Aubin #l2
Legends
2nd/1983
Elise Withered