Scope and Contents Contains legends of historical and contemporary characters. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and the University of Utah from 1930 to 2020. Digital collections (2017-2021) 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 are...

Scope and Contents Contains accounts of modern or urban legends. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and the University of Utah from 1960 to 2020. Digital collections (2015-2021) 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 are handwritten. Many of the...

Scope and Contents Collection contains jokes, anecdotes, folktales, formula tales, and tall tales. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University and Utah State University from 1956 to 2019. Most of the items are typewritten, but a few of the older items are handwritten. Many of the items contain a description of how, when, and where they were collected. The jokes contain social and cultural contexts to explain their humor. Digital collections (2016-2021)can be...

Scope and Contents Contains legends about various aspects of the human condition. Items were collected by students in folklore classes at Brigham Young University and Utah State University from 1930 to 2020. Digital collections (2019-2021) are digital and 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 are handwritten. Many...

Scope and Contents Contains personal experience narratives. Items were collected by students taking folklore classes at Brigham Young University. Narratives fall into several categories, and describe informants' thoughts, feelings, and memories relating to the occurances described. The collection contains narratives that fall into multiple categories and span several decades. Dated 1954 to 2020. Digital collections (2016-2021)can be accessed at ...

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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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Collection consists of a reel containing talks given by Albert R. Lyman and stories told by Ezekial Johnson. There is also a CD with the talks and stories recorded on it, and a typed transcript of them. The two talks given by Lyman deal with Mormon doctrine, including temples and Zion. The stories by Ezekiel Johnson detail his experience witnessing a little girl's resurrection, and his father's experience with the Prophet Joseph Smith and polygamy.

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Collection contains one videodisc that contains Tom Mould's lecture entilted, "Personal Revelation in and Beyond the Intermountain West." This lecture was given on November 14, 2012. This lectures explores the idea of transferring personal revelation into stories that can be shared with everyone. Date November 14, 2012.

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Photographs of alleged "seer stone" brought from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Utah by Philo Dibble who settled in Springville, Utah. The stills show the stone and a chicken egg in the hand of a man and on a black cloth. Seer stones were believed by some early Mormons to allow certain individuals to see into the future or to find lost objects. Dated approximately 1920.