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Submitted by BYU student Marty Larsen for her/his Winter 1981 English 392 class. About the spiritual events individuals have experienced in the LDS temples. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informatns, and informant items. Items include stories about unworthy entrance into the temple, the ability to communicate with the spirit world, the importance of temple work, and miracles in the temple.

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Submitted by BYU student Terri Larsen for her Winter 1979 Folklore class. About various engagement stories at BYU. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the diamond dinner, the dinner and the ring, the shopping trip, a knight in shining armor, the blue limosine date, the diamond rose, a carrot diamond, the book with the ring and more.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Mike Leach for his Winter 1982 English 392 class. About the various types and stories of prank calls that BYU students have done in the past or recently. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include prank calls such as wittly lines to make the subject feel stupid, pranks to make the subject do something, calls to make conversation with the subject, obscene and malicious phone calls, and pranks for answering a...

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Submitted by BYU student Laura Leavelle for her Winter 1980 English 391 class. About various proverbial phrases the author's father used. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various sayings that use animals to describe someone, use of other things to descirbe someone, sayings with a moral, and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Kimberly Leavitt for her Fall 1982 English 391 class. A collection of children's folklore. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include jump rope rhymes, cheers for the school team, jokes, counting rhymes, games, finger plays and taunts.

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Submitted by BYU student Tracey Lee for her Fall 1982 English 392 class. About the various jokes circulated about BYU co-eds and their roots. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include fat co-ed jokes, ugly co-ed jokes, and the co-ed's dating problems.

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Submitted by BYU student Kenneth Lougee for his Winter 1978 American Folklore class. About the conceptions Mormons have about the Amish, especially in Michigan, and Amish converts to Mormonism. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant list, and informant items. Items include Amish people driving cars, Amishman converting to Mormonism, Amish morality, missionary contacts, anti-Amish people, and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Scott Lowe for his Winter 1985 English 392 class. About many folk medicine cures for the hiccups. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the gesture cure to hiccups, antidotes as a cure for hiccups, to rhyme away the pain and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Scott Lowe for his Winter 1985 English 392 class. About many folk medicine cures for the hiccups. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the gesture cure to hiccups, antidotes as a cure for hiccups, to rhyme away the pain and more.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Stephen Marriott for his Winter 1982 English 392 class. About returned Mormon missionaries stories and the common themes through each. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include stories about overcoming cultural shock, misusage of the language, the intentional improper teaching of the culture, member posing as investigators, obedience to the commandments, and initiation rites played my members with...