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Submitted by BYU student Erin Lee Wells about the folklore of LDS conversion stories, and the important role they play in LDS culture. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and various LDS converts conversion stories, from those raised in an LDS setting to others influenced by a member's example, and much more. Prepared for Wells' Winter 2010 Eng 392 class.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Bekeley Kershisnik about how construction work becomes a way of life for those performing it, as well as construction worker's coping strategies and inside culture. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants descriptions of rituals they (construction workers) do, such as putting a "flag of love" up on the highest gable of a frame they made, the "anchense" and "inchinchulu" units of measurement, nicknames given to other workers or common pieces of...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Kristy G. Stewart about how three brothers attending BYU in the 1970s created their own folklore of the Hobo Witch of Provo in Rock Canyon, in an attempt to create social adhesion between themselves. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, an audio disc, and the informants telling the legend of "the Witch", how the Witch came to be, and subsequent sightings and retellings of the legend. Prepared by Kristy Steward for her Winter 2010 English 391 class under...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Mindy Davis about how toilet papering is a tradition of a folk group and how its stories are subsequently folklore. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' stories of toilet papering houses. Includes an informant toilet papering her own house, and her neighbor's cleanup, informants toilet papering to "get even", to show their affection for somebody, a policeman helping a group toilet paper, getting caught toilet papering and more. Prepared...

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Submitted by BYU student Kathryn Vidmar about BYU cross country team's traditions that keep them unified and cheerful. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant interviews. Interviews include the spiritual aspects of running, the initiatory benchmark workout, the FHE tryout, chocolate milk, themed runs (bridal, holiday, etc.), and the annual camp. Prepared for her Winter 2011 English 391 class for Dr. Eliason.

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Submitted by BYU student Natalie Christensen about grafitti as an art form of self-expression, and what grafitti says about its folk group. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' interviews. Interviews contain the inspiration for grafittists, laws concerining grafitti in Utah county, and grafittists culture. Prepared for her Spring 2011 English 391 class for Dr. Eliason. Includes a DVD.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Ainsley McGhie about people's unofficial folk medicinal therapies, and why they choose them. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant's interviews. Includes the author's father's experience with cayenne pepper as a cure for cold sores, a college's student orange juice to keep healthy, a mother's "sick soup", Vick's Vapor rub for sickness, gargling salt water to prevent sickness, and goldenseal root. Prepared for her Winter 2011 English 391 class...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Hillary Moser who collected mostly horror story folklore from her native Colorado and analyzed them. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' Colorado horror stories. Include a man and his friends getting spooked by a light and a noise in a tunnel, other high school students seeing a light and the headless coachman, more headless coachman stories and Gold Camp Road ghost stories. Prepared for her Winter 2011 English 391 class for Dr. Eric...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student BriAnne Zabriskie about how a woman's nine months of pregnancy gives rise to strenghtened inter-female relationships, material culture and folklore. Contains a cover essay, autobiograhpical sketch, and informants' photos and experiences with pregnancy and advice. Includes a photo time-lapse of informant's pregnancy, women giving each other advice, home remedies and signs (such as hiccuping in the womb means lots of spitting up, or a girl will "steal her mother's...

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Submitted by BYU student Lawrence Bohne about how phsycial discipline of children and punishments are handed down from generation to generation, directly or indirectly. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants interviews. Interviews include how informants' parents disciplined them, from spankings, groundings and extra chores to reading scriptures, the belt, to threatening to shock. Prepared for his Winter 2011 Engilsh 391 class under Dr. Eliason.