FOLKLORE

 

The Pig Lady

As far as the Pig Lady, rumors state that when she was born on a farm, her face was so hideous that her father cut off her head and replaced it with a pig's head. Now she haunts Pig Lady Road. Apparently, if you stop your car on the road, honk your horn three times, flash your headlights twice, and yell, "PIG LADY! PIG LADY! PIG LADY!", kick someone out of the car, and come back ten minutes later, your friend's head will be gone.

The Quarter and the Car

Once there was a little boy. He was on a bridge tossing around a quarter. So at one point he drops the quarter in the road. He walks into the road and goes down to pick it up. He is then hit by a car and killed. Myths say that when you drop a quarter on the bridge, the little boy's ghost will throw the quarter back at you with incredible force. So, once a man was driving across the bridge and he dropped a quarter out the window. He continued to drive across the bridge, unharmed. On his way back though, a quarter was thrown at his car so hard it shattered his side window and landed in the car.

Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil is a horned, almost dragon-like creature that haunts the land of the Pine Barrens. Rumor is that a woman didn't want to convert her faith and says her new born will be a baby of satan. Other rumors state that a woman, Mrs.Leeds has twelve kids and that she wants her next born to be cursed because she has so many. The curse is successful and the kid turns out to be a devil-child. When the child was born, it beat her to death.The third rumor is that Mrs. Leeds had twins, one deformed in a devil form, both were mischievous. She kills one but the devil-formed baby escapes. The Jersey devil is a Horned terror of a creature but we will never know how it was originally created. Researched by Trevor.

The Headless Witch

Now a long time ago in the pine barrens there was a thought to be witch named Peggy Cleavenger. Her neighbors believed that Peggy was a witch and had some gold in her house that every one wanted.One man thought that Peggy put a curse on him and so out of anger he drew a picture of Peggy and shot at it. He hit the picture's hand. The next day Peggy had a wound on her hand and she covered it with a bandage. She said a dog bit it but she was lying and everyone saw through it.

One of her powers was to morph into animals and so she morphed into a rabbit and boys didn't know it was her. They chased it and it hopped through Peggy's window and then Peggy transformed back into herself and glared at the boys. The boys were scared stiff and ran away.

Now another neighbor of Peggy's had to climb her fence to reach her own property. Everyday a giant lizard would block her way, forcing her to go the long way to her own property. One day she really got mad at the lizard and picked up a rock chucked it at the lizard's eye and when she saw Peggy the next day she had a black eye.

One day some one decapitated Peggy and burned down her house with the body in it. No one knew who did it but they tryed continously to figure out who did it. One of Penny's neighbors, Bill Mullen, was sick and didin't die. He just became sicker and sicker. He was in pain and suffered. Someone told him if you let a secret a dark secret out you will be free of this curse. He was in so much pain he confessed that he killed Peggy and at that instant he died.

21 Friends

Long ago, there were twenty-one Quakers who each owned a share of the same boat. They named the boat 21 Friends. One day, they took it out for a sail. The sea was as rough as the edge of a rock and the boat was rocking as much as a rocking chair rocks in a day. The Quakers spotted another boat and decided to jump over to it. With the ship being abandoned, it was bouyant enough to stay above water and drifted across the Atlantic many times. Thus, it became a ghost ship. Finally, off the coast of a European country, the two fisherman who saw it decided to fix it up and it became a fishing ship. This story was told to us by Mrs. Ruth Gold, Atlantic Cultural Heritage Center. Recorded by Kyle and Eric.