Scope and Contents Submitted by Blaine Nelson Lee for his Spring 1969 English 391 class. About the types of beliefs among BYU Mormons about the Catholic church. Contains a cover essay, informant abstracts and informant's beliefs and rumors about the Catholic church. Items include a rumor about a secret tunnel full of baby skeletons in monasteriesn throughout the world, rumored parties and orgies between priests and nuns, nuns supposedly taking birth control pills and getting married, priest's lovers, priest's...

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Submitted by BYU student Pamela Lewis for her Spring 1972 English 391 class. About the the popular activites of first graders, mostly joke-telling. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts, and informant items. Include a nonsense riddle (4+4=18), more nonsensical riddles, the barn joke, a lollipop joke, a dirty joke, a "barking lot", elephant jokes, more jokes, some jump rope rhymes, and the Waddley-Achee song.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Glynneth Llewellyn for her Fall 1977 English 391 class. About the Navajo legends and witchcraft, especially interpretations of skinwalkers from Navajo people. Contains a cover essay, an autobiographical sketch, list of informants and informant items. Items include the story of a boy breaking a witch curse, somebody catching a neighbor stealing hair, girls seeing skinwalkers, skinwalkers being best friends, skinwalkers not being allowed to be afraid, people not being...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student George Ira Lowe for his Winter 1975 English 392 class. About the types of ghost story folklore in American Fork Utah, more specifically the American Fork Cemetery Virgin Mary statue and Bloody Mary stories. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and informant's items. Items include pictures of the Virgin Mary statue in American Fork cemetery, the statue with rubies in her eyes, or bloody lighted eyes, the spirit of the dead person in the...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Kathleen Lubeck for her Spring 1970 English 391 class. About graveyard epitaphs from the southern Utah county and Juab county and the insight they give into individuals and culture. Contains a cover essay, map of graveyards, and the epitaphs collected. Epitaphs include infant's graves and the peace of the families, "Budded on earth to bloom in heaven", flower imagery, life after death beliefs, children's deaths being a step to God or Christ, longing for a child,...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Nancy Lubeck for her Winter 1975 English 391 class. About humorous and/or unusual marriage proposals. Contains a cover essay, an autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts, and informants items. Items include writing over a mission, threatening to kick a girl out of the car if she didn't marry him, marrying a sick woman who was in the hospital, a misunderstanding that almost lead to Paris, Spencer W. Kimball finding a picture of the girl he was going to marry in...

Scope and Contents Submitted by Utah State University student Linda Lundell for her Spring 1974 English 524 class. Linda collected her family's folklore and family history to make them accessible for her family and posterity. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and informant's stories. Stories include John Herbert Barnett seeing his spirit grandparents at his son's baptism and confirmation, the Holy Ghost warning Steve Lundell he was going to get shot, Linda Lundell's mother...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Laura Lee Luther for her January 1971 English 391 class. About the hereditary folklore and traditions as told by New England natives about traditional Hadlyme, Connecticut. Contains a cover essay, informant abstracts, and informant's items. Items include a letter from Laura Lee Luther's father about his life growing up in Hadlyme, from his one-room schoolhouse to his memories of WWI and his everyday life, her father's college diary on his daily impressions, the...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Carla Macbeth for her Winter 1975 English 392 class. About the stories that Carla Macbeth's father John told, and the morals they contained. Includes a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts, and her father's stories. Stories include Mrs. Schmurzlicher's Cow and its corn and pearl her father found, the pearl-handled knife and how he prayed to find it, his "swearing", the grumpy church janitor, not calling Italians "wops", the side-hill galoots, the...

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Submitted by BYU student Sheila Ann Marin for her Fall 1973 English 391 class. About the cohesion and traditions, mainly games, of the BYU a capella choir. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and informant items. Items include the game Count Seven's; the Freudian slip game; song medley gamel; Crazy Situations; I Love you; darling but I cannot smile; I like coffee, but I don't like tea; the Make up your own rules game; and much more.