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Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

1939

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Folktale About Rising Bread, June 30, 1939, Alfred L. Shoemaker Jun 1939

Folktale About Rising Bread, June 30, 1939, Alfred L. Shoemaker

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

Handwritten notes recounting an informant's story about a Pennsylvania German baker with supernatural powers. When the baker was not present in the bake-shop, the dough would refuse to rise for his assistants.