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Box 19

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

A collection and discussion of jump-rope rhymes / Melissa Conklin, 1975

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: FA 1 Item 203
Scope and Contents

Conklin collected jump-rope rhymes sung by children on the playground. Included are activity rhymes, jump in-jump out rhymes, endurance rhymes, and non-activity sing-song rhymes. Project was created for an English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1975.

Dates: 1975

Italian folklore : some customs traditions religious beliefs superstitions / Mary Conti, 1974

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 2
Identifier: FA 1 Item 204
Scope and Contents

Conti collected Italian folklore from her father's side of the family. Included are Italian customs, traditions, religious beliefs, and superstitions. Project was created for an English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1974.

Dates: 1974

Games played by BYU family home evening groups / Eileen Cowles, 1974

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 205
Scope and Contents

Cowles collected games that students at Brigham Young University in a family home evening. Included are games to increase scripture knowledge, games for character building, games of timing, games for boy-girl association, games that have jokes, and games with a trick, and getting to know you games. Project was created for English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1974.

Dates: 1974

Jack Delmont Downey's stories / Keven Crawford, 1976

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 4
Identifier: FA 1 Item 206
Scope and Contents

Crawford recorded his father, Jack Delmont Downey, sharing stories. Included are stories that Downey created himself, rhymes, reflections, and stories of his family. Project was created for English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1976.

Dates: 1976

Folk ways and traditions in southern Brazil / Laura M. Creer, 1974

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 5
Identifier: FA 1 Item 207
Scope and Contents

Creer interviewed a co-worker that had grown up in Brazil about his knowledge of folklore in his home region. Included are stories involving Black Brazilian influences, folk beliefs, religious and semi-religious customs. Project was created for an English course taught in 1974.

Dates: 1974

A study of the personal lore of Agatha Mannering / by Gloria Cronin, 1977

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 6
Identifier: FA 1 Item 208
Scope and Contents

Cronin interviewed Agatha Mannering about her personal beliefs and narratives that are folklore. Included are items in healing lore, dream lore, psychic lore, death lore, dowing lore, and spiritual warnings. Interview with Mrs. Mannering was in October 1977.

Dates: 1977

Water witching in the scientific age / Gloria L. Cronin, 1977

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 7
Identifier: FA 1 Item 209
Scope and Contents

Cronin interviewed many people within Utah that had the gift of "water witching" or the ability to know where to drill wells, and find minerals from the surface of the landscape. Included are interviews from both men and women and their different practices, customs, and methods involving water witching. Project was created for Dr. Wilson's English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1977.

Dates: 1977

Stella Harris Oaks : the teller and her tales / Gloria L. Cronin, 1976

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 8
Identifier: FA 1 Item 210
Scope and Contents

Cronin interviewed Stella Harris Oaks about her life and influences within her family. Included are stories that are driven by religious beliefs, family tales, and her reactions to major events within her life. Project was created for Dr. Wilson's English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1976.

Dates: 1976

The lore of Italy / Martha Curtis, 1975

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 9
Identifier: FA 1 Item 211
Scope and Contents

Curtis collected folklore from two informants one from Venice Italy and one who served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy. Included are lore from Southern Italy, Italy in general, and Catholic lore, in each category includes cures for common ailments, ways to remove the evil eye, and traditions with customs. Project was created for English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1975.

Dates: 1975

A collection of children's folklore / by Linon Daems, 1969

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 10
Identifier: FA 1 Item 212
Scope and Contents

Daems collected children's folklore from the songs they sing and the games they play. Included are song lyrics that rhyme, mock, or are just fun, rhymes and retorts that insult, spell or are fun, and games played both in a party situation or just a group setting. Project was created for an English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1969.

Dates: 1969