Folkloric Sherwood
Historian and columnist for The Virginian-Pilot George Holbert Tucker observed that "s anyone who has ever investigated the subject knows, there are really two Grace Sherwoods". The first is the historical one, outlined above. But in the centuries since, a folkloric one has grown up, from folk tales told and re-enactments made of her and her trial. James observed in the 19th century that " great many fanciful things have been written by ingenious authors, who, instead of searching the records for facts, have tortured their imaginations for theories". Nearly a century later, and citing James, Condon characterized these "far-fetched tales" as the products of "istorians as novelists, or those revising to match their own views of the evils of the past".
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