15 Daniel Fleming, Book of Accounts, 15 April 1675, ms. 386, WD/R/box 199, CUMROK.

16 Hudson, Barton Records.

17“If the murderer touches the corpse of a murdered man, it will purge; therefore, have the suspect touch the corpse.” North Carolina Folklore, VI, 490.

18North Carolina Folklore, I, 258.

19 Dyer Journal, 24 Aug. 1767, 7 June 1769, Ms. HSP.

20 Johnson, Antebellum North Carolina, 145-48.