Folklore · 1987
Connecticut Folklore: Fact or Fiction?
Curriculum linkedCarolyn F. Stephenson’s Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute unit discusses Midnight Mary on PDF pages 5–6. It presents premature-burial, ghost and curse variants as material for studying folklore. It is an early dated written account located in this search, not proof of the story’s origin.
Evidence & access: External source; original image or full text is not included. No reproduction license established. Its diagnosis of apoplexy is not accompanied here by a recovered medical record. The bibliography points to David E. Philips, Legendary Connecticut (1984), and Glenn E. White, Folk Tales of Connecticut (1977); those books were not examined.
Source / creator: Carolyn F. Stephenson; Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute, 1987, IV, unit 87.04.05
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Silent Grounds Collective, Mary “Midnight Mary” Hart collection, MH-024, “Connecticut Folklore: Fact or Fiction?,” research edition September 8, 2026. Source: Carolyn F. Stephenson; Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute, 1987, IV, unit 87.04.05; https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/files/87.04.05.pdf (accessed September 8, 2026).