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Submitted by BYU student Rebecca Bishop for her Winter 1987 English 391 class. About the various stories and myth circulating in the non-LDS community specifically about temples and what happens in them. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include how members get into the temple, weapons, basketball, swimming, human/infant sacrifice, burying the dead, baptising dead bodies, and sexual activity.

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Submitted by BYU student Tim McFadden for his Winter 1987 English 392 class. About the various ways and folk methods that women have of telling if their unborn baby will be a girl or a boy. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include methods such as a pendulum, position of the baby, family tree, cow-licked, pre-conceptions, hurdling, psychic, physical changes, hormonal influences, and more.

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Submitted by BYU student David Anderson for his Winter 1987 English 392 class. About the subsitute games that BYU students instead of the traditional college alcohol and sex. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include non-physical games, limited physical contact games, with and without partners, greater physical contact games, and murder games.

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Submitted by BYU student Kevin Gleed for his Winter 1987 English 392 class. About the courtship and proposals before marriage at BYU. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the unexpected surpirse, and the previously discussed events.

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Submitted by BYU student Tiffany Mitton for her Winter 1987 English 391 class. About the various Christmas traditions that BYU student's families had. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include carolling, Christmas day traditions, Christmas trees and decor, the days before Christmas, and gifts.

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Submitted by BYU student Roger McOmber for his Winter 1987 English 392 class. About the folklore of doctor's in a small-town setting and the unique challenges they face. contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include "the not-so-fast draw", "an Old Spice extraction", "free ride", "tanning session", "the spider lady", and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Leisa Stott for her Winter 1987 English 392 class. About the folklore of the Stott family growing up, and the sources from which the traditions were compiled. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include family traditions, family stories such as bike stories, broken bone stories, camp/hiking stories, cat stories, car stories, childhood stories, food stories, war stories, trombone stories, and work stories.

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Submitted by BYU student Melinda Hardy for her Winter 1987 English 392 class. A collection of games that can be played on a road trip or just in the car. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include games with the alphabet, games with license plates, games involving geography, games depending on memory, guessing games, and misc games.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Paul Boyd for his Winter 1987 English 392 class. About the culture of sex roles in the United States, and how that plays into trying determing the sex of an unborn child. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various methods, including the male baby coming first, pseudo-scientific methods of determination and the mother's health, the position of the baby, family genealogy, and various non-scientific...

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Submitted by BYU student Camille Brennan for her Fall 1986 Mormon folklore class. About visions future parents have of their future children. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include stories like "Girl sees future husband and children", "spirit child visits mother", "child is baptized", and more.