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Thread #167754   Message #4049812
Posted By: GUEST,Starship
01-May-20 - 03:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lilli Schull/Shaw(American murder ballad)
Subject: RE: Origins: Lilli Schull (American murder ballad)
http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/BrII208.html

https://books.google.ca/books?id=ojrqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=for+the+murder+of+Lillie+Shaw,+Who+I+so+cruelly+murdered+And

The second link is the more interesting of the two. In that, her name is spelled Lily, so the nut that will be hard to crack is how it's all got from Lilli Schull to Lily Shaw. First thing that comes to mind is that someone will 'bad' handwriting could conceivably make Shaw look like Schull. Lord knows about the Lillies.