Scope and Contents Contains interviews conducted by or under the direction of Christine Elyse Blythe with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as some members of the broader Mormon diaspora, about their experiences, beliefs, customs and material lore during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the items are audio recordings and associated transcriptions, but several physical items such as masks and sacramento trays, as well as digital images and photographs, are also included within...

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Collection contains folklore project files created by Brigham Young University students and Utah State University students between 1969 and 2021 for their folklore course final project. More recently the projects have been required to have at least twelve unique items pertaining to the overarching lore that the student chose to research. Projects are mainly interview transcriptions and occasionally include video and audio recordings.

Scope and Contents Collection contains fieldwork reports of legends on religious themes, often with cultural and historical connections to Mormonism. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and the University of Utah from 1954 to 2019. Digital collections (2019-2021) can be accessed at https://lib.byu.edu/collections/wilson-folklore-archive/. Most of...

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Contains articles written by Danny B. Stewart on Utah folklore. Includes articles on local haunts, lake monsters, the Bigfoot, ghosts, courtship customs, and Mormon specific folklore. Six of the articles were published in print and three were published online with Utah Stories magazine, 2017-2019.