NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE
February 26, 2011

The Talkative Ghost of Nelly Butler

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The following are some things I consider traditional activities for ghosts: moaning eerily, knocking things off shelves while invisible, s...
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February 19, 2011

Thomas Jefferson and the Giant Cheese

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Here's a great little story about a big cheese, just in time for Presidents Day. When Thomas Jefferson was elected the third president o...
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February 08, 2011

Mother Goose's Grave

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There's a legend that Mother Goose, that benevolent bird-riding witch associated with nursery rhymes, is actually buried in Boston. Is i...
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February 01, 2011

The Parker House: Ghostly Guests

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The list of famous people who stayed at the Parker House is astounding. Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol ...
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January 26, 2011

The Parker House: Boston Cream Pie, Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X

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Boston's Omni Parker House hotel, founded in 1855, is America's longest continuously operating hotel. Needless to say it's full ...
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Peter Muise
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Author of WITCHES AND WARLOCKS OF MASSACHUSETTS (September, 2021) and LEGENDS AND LORE OF THE NORTH SHORE (2014). My work has appeared in various other places, including MAGICAL FOLK: BRITISH AND IRISH FAIRIES: AD 500 TO PRESENT (2018), and Sam Baltrusis's 13 MOST HAUNTED CRIME SCENES BEYOND BOSTON (2016). Avid folklore fan and New England native. Questions? Email me at hilldwellingpete(at)hotmail.com, or leave a comment. I like New England's legends, folklore and weird traditions.
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