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Name of the Storyteller:
Rhonda Crow
Title of the Story:
You Can’t Get Out
Story Source Material:
Story adaptation from an Oklahoma
folktale.
http://www.americanfolklore.net/ss.html
. “…It would be an honor to have
you retell the story for your class…” Sandy Schlosser, author of Spooky New
England, Spooky South, Spooky Southwest, Spooky New York
Folk tale story from Oklahoma
Story Rating:
General audience
Taletype Classification of the
Story:
Folktale
Abstract/Summary:
Every small town in any state has their town drunk, the one that everyone talks
about each and every day, one that the local ministers try to saves, and
everyone shakes their heads and wonders what he will do next. This
folktale is a story told from the state of Oklahoma.
One night as Stinky, the town drunk, staggers home from the local beer joint has
a life altering experience.
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