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Submitted by BYU student Daniel Gemperline. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant interviews. About the culture and beliefs of an Apalachee tribe located in Arizona. Includes traditional legends, folk tales and homeopathic beliefs and taboos shared by the community.

Scope and Contents note Brady interviews informants about the folklore of romantic expression in elementary, junior high, and high school. He expects that, because of the maturity level found at each stage of schooling, elementary school will be defined by hostility between the sexes, that junior high will be characterized by secret crushes, and that high school will be a time of frank and straightforward expressions of romantic love. He finds that elementary school is actually characterized by a fixation on games...

Scope and Contents note Lorimer collects celebrity conversion stories from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She believes that these stories--which all suggest that a famous person has converted to the Latter-day Saint faith--occur whenever religious people try to reconcile the spiritual world with the world of popular culture. She suggests that these stories emphasize a desire for validation and an anxiousness to spread truth to all people. Created by Kari Lorimer when she was enrolled in...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Enid McCauley for her/his Summer 1971 English 391 class. About youth's "scare stories" and their psychological implications and effects. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and informant's scary stories. Stories include people communicating through Ouija boards, boy scouts disappearing, Mary Worth, the ghost of a murdered girl at a party, other ghostly hitchhikers, a dead lady opening her casket, the babysitter with the mysterious...

Scope and Contents note Close examines irrational fears of a small group of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Close discusses the church's belief that people have been sent to Earth to overcome the weaknesses of mankind, and to become a stronger and more perfected person. Close then analyzes the irrational fears of certain Mormons, while also examining their struggles toward overcoming these fears. Created by Lisa Close while enrolled in Jacqueline Thursby's English 667 class during...

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Hamilton discusses the uses of lucky charms amongst her peers. She photographed each item and discusses how each item came to be the person's lucky item, and how they person uses the lucky item now. Project was created for Jill Rudy's English 391 course at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Collection of ghost stories and encounters with the paranormal. Includes stories about seeing and hearing ghosts, having on-edge feelings about a situation, and appliances that seem to have a mind of their own. Created for Utah State University's English 526 course in the winter, 1982.

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Farrell collected missionary stories in an effort to see why the stories are so exciting to share. Included are initiation stories, stories of language mix-ups, remarkable spiritual events, stories about the rigors of missionary life, stories of unauthorized trips, and sister missionary stories. Project was created for and American Folklore course taught at Brigham Young University in 1976.

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Crismon writes about beliefs, customs, and narratives of theatrical participants. Project was created for a Brigham Young University course during the winter semester of 2000.