Box 48
Contains 11 Results:
Folklore of a Dungeons & Dragons group / Jimmy B. Ellis, 1984
Submitted by BYU student Jimmy B. Ellis for his Fall 1984 English 391 class. About the subculture and folklore of a group of Dungeons and Dragons players. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include how to play it, the foolishness of D&D palyers, General adventures, players vs. the dungeon master, what not to do, cursed items. and more.
Remarkable deliverance tales : earthquake in Guatemala, Feb. 4. 1976 / Larry R. Esmay, 1978
Submitted by BYU student Larry R. Esmay for his Fall 1978 English 391 class. About the earthquake stories of the Guatemalan 1976 earthquake. Contains a cover essay, an autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include the stories Delayed Entry, Over 200 Elders, A Night in the Field, Office Elders, Family in Patzicia, Randal Ellsworth Story, Broken Glass, and more.
Folklore of pregnancy and birth / Stacy Esquivel, 1983
Submitted by BYU student Stacy Esquivel for her Winter 1983 English 392 class. About the various myths and folklore surrounding traditional and contemporary methods of childbirth and pregnancy. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant list, and informant items. Items include categories of folklore such as Things to Avoid While Expecting, Determining the Sex of the Unborn Child, and Birth and Its Effects.
Unique proposals of Mormon students / Denise Evans, 1979
Submitted by BYU student Denise Evans for her Winter 1979 English 392 class. About the unique marriage proposals that BYU students have heard about or done. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, informant items. Items include stories such as Giving Back her Class Ring, Birthday Present, Ice in Ice Water, Card Stunt, What are we Doing in the graveyard, I have a Sunburn, and more.
Humorous ways of answering telephone calls / Nanette Evans, 1984
Submitted by BYU student Nanette Evans for her Fall 1984 English 391 class. About various phone-related pranks and amusing ways to answer a telephone. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include answers such as Angel, God Temple, Male, Stab, Baby, Pig, Crumb, Loaf, Nut, Sheep, and more.
Folklore of Bridger Valley / Kirk L. Eyre, 1984
Submitted by BYU student Kirk L. Eyre for his Fall 1984 English 391 class for Professor Poulsen. About the folklore of Bridger Valley. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants and informant items. Items include Mormon legends and folktales, legends, folktales, and the culture of Bridger Valley.
Amusement park folklore / Thorpe Facer, 1980
Submitted by BYU student Thorpe Facer for his Winter 1980 English 391 class. About the folklore of the Lagoon amusement park in Farmington, Utah ("outside of Bountiful, Utah"). Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include variants on the bottle game, living legends, rules reinforcement, people caught stealing, customer dissatisfaction, drunk cowboys, and Mexican day.
A comparison of foreign proverbs it's not what you say, but how you say it / Debra A. Ferguson, 1978
Submitted by BYU student Debra A. Ferguson for her Fall 1978 English 391 class. About the proverbs of foreign countries and what they say about the values and spirits of those countries. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include various proverbs from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands!, and the Soviet Union.
Get back in your place : an analysis of the BYU coed joke / Charles L. Fife, 1984
Submitted by BYU student Charles L. Fife for his Fall 1984 English 391 class. About the coed joke at BYU and its function to suppress a minority, and why men feel it necessary to say them. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include coed jokes as variant of popular racial jokes, coeds are stupid jokes, coeds are fat, ugly and undesirable jokes, coeds compared to animals, and various other coed stories.
Jewish jokes / Sherri Flans, 1980
Submitted by BYU student Sherri Flans for her Fall 1980 English 391 class. A collection of Jewish jokes. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include jokes about Jewish thrift, Jewish mothers, JAP, Chicken Soup, Jews and Christianity, and Circumcision and Baptism.