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Submitted by BYU student Alana Haws for her Winter 1975 English 392 class. About the folklore aspect of children's games, due to it's part of a child's culture and the variations found throughout the populace. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and informant's donated items. Items include tag with a safe zone, kiss tag, cross tag, Japanese tag, as well as many more variations.

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Submitted by BYU student Debbie Hayman for her Winter 1977 English 392 class. About the McGregor family's folkstories and traditions as they've been created or passed down, especially from the Mormon pioneer times. Contains an autobiographical sketch, biography of the McGregor's, a cover essay and the items provided by the McGregor's.

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Submitted by BYU student Betty Hearn for her Fall 1970 English 391 class. About supernatural beliefs and legends, specifically those to do with diabolical situations or Satan. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and the informant's items. Items include ouija boards empowered by devils or the devil, exorcisms, demons killing people and more.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Marilyn Jacobs Heiner for her Spring 1970 English 391 class under Professor William Wilson. About Mormon's views on money and financial status in public and private. Contains informants abstracts, a cover essay, introductory memorates as well as the informant's items. Items include members mocking the unattractive and poor, literally starving students, trying to scrimp money with TV repairs, extreme thrift, jokes about money-making, funny stories about jobs, the...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Kathy Helms for her Fall 1971 English 391 class. About the conformity found in Utah Mormons and the person, Jessie Evans Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith's wife, that restored her faith in Mormon's individuality. Contains a cover essay (Introduction), informant abstracts, and informannts items. Includes an interview with Deseret News' Hal Knight, who created the obituary and the "Low and Behold" story, Jessie needing proTECtion" from a long-winded speaker, Aunt Jessie...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Jaymes Milton Helsmstetler for his Fall 1972 English 391 class. About what creates the spirit of Christmas, and if it is connected to one's heritage or traditions. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketches, informant abstracts, and informant's Christmas traditions and celebrations. Includes mistletoe in England, the German Tannenbaum (Christmas tree), Adventkalendar (Advent Calendar), nativity scenes in the home, Austrian Christmas trees, candles in the...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Diane Hess for her Fall 1972 English 333 class. About how games, pranks and initiation rites establish a social hiearchy or pecking order in girls' apartment, and how it relates to Darwin's survival of the fittest theory. Contains an autobiographical sketch, cover essay, informant abstracts, and the informant's stories. Stories include games such as Pyschiatrist, Read the broom, stoplight, Murder, Spoon Guess game, Scissors, Pig, the prank game Under the Blanket,...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Helen Hoopes for her Summer 1969 English 391 class. About humorous stories of initiation rites, pranks, and everyday occurences in the mission field. Contains a cover essay, informant abstracts, and informant's stories. Stories include telling green missionaries about "numbered prayers", pranking a sleepy Elder, various greenie pranks, language difficulties and using the wrong words, Elders on bikes, getting scrapes and ripped clothes, tough investigators,...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Kathy Hoover for her Summer 1975 English 391 class. About fruitful field of legends, tales and beliefs in the Mexican culture and how they have retained their folkgroup despite the Spanish occupation and other hardships. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and informant stories. Stories include folk medicine such as curing the "empacho", "the susto", "the evil eye", superstitions such as witches taking the form of animals, which then...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Chris J. Horton for his Fall 1973 English 391 class. About how Navajo native folk beliefs are a rich influence on their culture, and Mormon missionaries experiences with it, especially the werewolf/skinwalker/yenaalgooshii stories on the reservation in the Southwest U.S. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstracts and the informant's stories. Stories include Elder Allred sighting a yenaalgooshii, or large wolf creature, a yenaalgooshii trying...