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Cross-references, kept short on purpose
The test: the Princess Mishawaka legend examined as a claim — who Littlejohn was, what documents would have to exist and do not, the name's real history — stands whole in this history's spine, in the entry “The Princess Mishawaka, tested against the record.” This section has kept the telling; the testing is there, and the two are not merged, so that a reader can hold the tale and its papers in separate hands.
The career: what the city did with the tale — the 1909 pageant and the princess who lit the streetlights, the centennial and sesquicentennial contests, the nickname's hardening into the city's ordinary synonym — stands in the Culture section, and the high school's annual crowning in the Schools record. The folklore file's share — the text, the variants, the circulation — is the three entries above.
The ghosts: the Hacienda tale stands at tale size in this section. The dedicated haunted-places pass — each reputed place tested at its address, with the building's record beside it, in the manner of the Fort Wayne file — is a separate pass of this build and has not yet run for Mishawaka; when it runs, the brewer's house will be its first Mishawaka address, and this section's entry is its pointer, not its substitute.
The valley's other teller: the documented Native tale-stock of this river in print is not Littlejohn's invention but the valley's own: Simon Pokagon, son of the chief of the bend's own band, printing the Potawatomi tellings in his birch-bark booklets and legend collections of 1893–1900. His books are catalogued, with their rule of custody, in South Bend's Folklore section — the band's ground was the valley whole, and the catalogue stands there once, pointed to from here rather than repeated. A reader who wants the St. Joseph valley's folklore as its Native tellers published it goes to Pokagon; Littlejohn is what the settlers' side added.
The archive: the children's and schoolyard stock of St. Joseph County entered the Indiana University Folklore Archives' county files in the Dorson era, as South Bend's Folklore section records of the shared county; no Mishawaka-specific published count exists there either, and the gap named in that section is this section's gap as well. The city's living tale-keeper is the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library's local-history room, where this section's named gaps — the Enterprise hoax test, the school-reader test — wait on its files.
Sources:
- This history — spine section (the legend tested); Culture section (the civic career); Schools section (the crowning); South Bend Folklore section (Pokagon's books; the IU Folklore Archives and the shared county file).