Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Cynthia-Mar Thomas for her Winter 1974 English 391 class. About the life and folklore of Benjamin Pace Sorenson, the collector's uncle. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, biographical sketch, and various informant items. Items include folk beliefs such as waterwitching, legends and customs such as a White Boy Stolen by the Indians, Where the Indians camped, folk foods borrowed from the Indians such as Yant and seeds, various recipes, anecdotes such as...

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Submitted by BYU student Kathleen Thomas for her Summer 1975 English 391 class. About songs collected from the collector's Girls' Camp. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include songs like "Follow Me", "Guaddaliachi", "The Mexican Woodpecker", "The Dummy Line", "I love myself", "I love the mountains", and much more.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Julie Thompson for her Fall 1975 English 391 class. About the folklore of country/cowboy people. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants and informant items. Items include songs like swingin' doors, pop A top, Rocky top, Closing of the doors, Two little Boys, Three Little Devils, Blood on the Saddle, and various jokes like Cowboy on Manhole Cover, John Wayne, Chromosomes, City Man Lost, bumper stickers such as beware, cowgilrs, goat...

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Submitted by BYU student Paige Tidwell for her May 1971 English 397 (391?) class. About the folklore of the "typical Mormon" family the Whatcotts. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include J. Golden Kimball stories, various sayings of his, Jacob Hamblin, various folk wisdom sayings that have been passed down through their family, various Mormon beliefs and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Marsha Tipton for her Fall 1972 English 391 class. About the legends and folklore practices developed to help young women solve or understand the "marital unknown". Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the "match a card", story, apple step twist, rich man, name corss out, count box cars, name a boy, fairy loops and more.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Kathy Titze for her Summer 1971 English 391 class. About the child's world and its oral traditions and invention, as well as children's collectin of rhymes, chants, riddle songs, and games. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, autobiographical sketch, and informant items. Items include chants such as teeter-totter, fatty fatty, tattle-tale, child games such as chin chopper, patty cake, step on a crack, buzzy bee, This little piggy, rhymems such as Not last...

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Submitted by BYU student Becky Townsend for her Fall 1972 English 391 class. About children's use and memorization of folklore and how it impacts them later in life. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, autobiographical sketch, and informant items. Items include tongue-twisters, saving place, defense, riddles, poetry, jump rope rhymes, games and fun songs.

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Submitted by BYU student Dawn Tracy for her Fall 1969 English 391 class. About the various stories of President Wilkinson from personal experiences to jokes and second-hand stories. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, and informant items. Items include Pres. Wilson being sick and making a promise to the Lord, Pres. Wilkinson and the Indians, his father, and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Wm. Dwaine Trammer for his Fall 1970 English 391 class. About the proverbs that people use, and why they do. Contains a cover essay, list of informants and informant items. Items include proverbs such as "Red in the Morning", "A great man", "Rome wasn't build in a day", "Never put off", "Two to tango" and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Anna Tueller for her Winter 1976 English 392 class. About the real life of a BYU coed and what they do, specifically pranks, on slow Friday nights to pass the time. Includes a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include pranks of approbation, frienship, and approval, pranks of hostility and jealousy, and more.