Contains accounts of legends on pets, pests, and food preparation. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and the University of Utah from 1960 to 2007.

Contains legends concerning how birds, monkeys, crabs, coyotes, and other creatures acquire distinctive characteristics (or have them; some of the content is questionably etiological). Also contains legends on people turning into turtles, sharks, dolphins, and lake-dwelling monsters. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and the University of Utah from 1961 to 2000.

Contains legends about animals, nature, and weather. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University and Utah State University from 1960 to 1998.

Collection contains two videodiscs of the annual folklore lecture by Steve Siporin, these titled "A Bear and a Bandit: What a legendary Utah grizzly and an Italian brigand have in common." This lecture was on “A Bear and a Bandit,” an essay in the winter 2015 Utah Historical Quarterly which compared the story of the grizzly bear Old Ephraim in Cache Valley, Utah, with the tale of the famous Italian bandit Tiburzi in Maremma, Italy. Materials dated November 8, 2013.