Well, it would seem that holler people by definition are a minority
population element anyway. But anything unusual gets public
attention and spawns - er, no pun intended - legends.
Isn't West Virginia the location of that strange megalithic stuff,
and some East Anglia derived witchcraft that then traveled to the
Ozarks and from there informed Anderson Feri in its early
development?
And the Mothman sightings John Keel writes about?
So its like, an out of date likely defunct stereotype likely started
by the appearance and activities of less than 1% of the population.
But if WV is one of a very few places that has that kind of !% or
less
in its population, it is going to be the place that is thought to be
THE
location for it, when you could troll the place for years and find
nothing like it.
That bug eyed look that makes one think of an Innsmouth person
ready to make The Change into his abomination shuffling shambling
scaly fishy self, goes with goiter and low Iodine, a problem
corrected
by iodizing table salt long ago.
Mary Christine
In a message dated 2/27/2008 7:18:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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The
regional/racial stereotypes that Lovecraft, among other authors,
used in
their fiction persist. The backwoods and hills of North America
must--a
storytelling/folkloric imperative-- incorporate some sort of
devolutionary
rays similar to what Lovecraft suggested. And what
has
devolved...
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