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When and how did "Indian burial ground"? become a horror trope? Were Native American burial sites and rituals in any way scary and mysterious to the colonists or is this a cliché born in 70s/80s, with Stephen King helping to spread it?

by /u/LukeInTheSkyWith in /r/AskHistorians

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