Scope and Contents Contains fieldwork reports on legends of visitation by God, Mary, angels, deathless or resurrected saints, dead relatives, other dead (both benign and malign), the Devil, Cain, and demons. Some items, particularly the reports of visits from dead relatives, span the boundary between family history and folklore; they have identifiable creators and often report complete, short chains of transmission. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State...

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Contains legends about supernatural creatures. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University and Utah State University from 1959 to 2018.

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Contains legends about supernatural powers and the people who use them. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University and Utah State University from 1959 to 2018.

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Contains accounts of unexplained phenomenon. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and the University of Utah from 1957 to 2019.

Scope and Contents Contains legends about supernatural events of a non-religious character. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and the University of Utah from 1959 to 2020. Digital collections (2019-2021) can be accessed at https://lib.byu.edu/collections/wilson-folklore-archive/. Most of the items are typewritten, but a few of the older items...

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Student generated paper by Clark Bishop. A series of local legends about Redginal Child who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Springville, Utah.

Scope and Contents Contains folklore stories and accounts from missionaries or relatives and friends of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, separated in 17 bound volumes with no inner chronological organization. The stories date back to the 1870s, and they were collected between 1958 and 1994. Includes accounts of missionaries' language mistakes, funny stories, miracles, songs, and experiences with the priesthood, the supernatural, or other people. The interviews for the accounts...