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The Grotto: the tale-life of Notre Dame's Grotto — Father Corby's 1896 building of it, the candles, the customs that gather at a shrine — belongs to the university's own ground, and stands in this history's Notre Dame section, with its fame tested in Famous Locations. It is pointed to here, not retold, because its telling is devotional and institutional rather than the city's floating stock — and because its documented core is unusually good, Edwin Sorin's own letter describing the Lourdes replica's site standing in the university's archive.
The ghosts: South Bend's haunted stock — the apparitions with addresses, the ghost in Washington Hall who answers to George Gipp's name among them — is told in this history's Haunted Places section, where such tales belong: each at its address, with the building's record beside it. This section keeps only the general craft of telling; a haunted house is a tale pinned to a deed, and the deeds are in the other file.
The claims: and the tales that arrive dressed as checkable fact stand in the Stories Told section, where the record's tests of them are printed. Folklore's rule, stated once for the whole file: a story told as a story is kept here whole, with its papers; a story told as a fact is tested there, with its verdict; and the reader is never asked to mistake one shelf for the other.
Sources:
- This history — Notre Dame section and Famous Locations section (the Grotto); Haunted Places section (the addressed ghost stock, Washington Hall among it); Stories Told section (the claims-form tales and their tests); Mysteries and Unsolved Mysteries sections (the documentary questions and the open cases, the Lerch correction among them).