My friends and I were talking about a story that we remember from childhood. It involved an old woman who always wore a green ribbon around her neck, yet refused to say why. On her deathbed, she gave permission to remove it…and her head fell off. Does anyone know the author/name of this story? Where to get the text? Thanks.
In a Dark, Dark Room : And Other Scary Stories (An I Can Read Book).
BTW, this took about 6 seconds to find with a search engine 
I used alta-vista, and searched for [“green ribbon” near head], and found the book on the second hit.
Arjuna34
We have the book that Arjuna34 found and it is, as you might guess from the subtitle, a children’s book. The stories in it are all mild variations of scary, “campfire” tales. I would assume that the original versions are oral and are much older.