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Box 76

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Games people played : a collection of favorite folkgames played by children in the 1940's & early 1950's / Leisa Simmons, 1989

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 1
Identifier: FA 1 Item 817
Scope and Contents

Leisa Simmons collected personal narratives of games played by children in the 1940's and early 1950's. Included are items falling into categories such as educational car games, car games of observance, outdoor games, and indoor games. Project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1989.

Dates: 1989

Threats : the frightening folklore of childhood / Christine Stone, 1989

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 2
Identifier: FA 1 Item 818
Scope and Contents

Christine Stone collected personal narratives of threats used to scare or threaten children into behaving. Included are stories of using physical items like belts or wooden spoons on a child, counting, telling a parent, and miscellaneous oral threats. Project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter 1989.

Dates: 1989

Children's folklore : an old topic from a very young source / Sterling R. Grover, 1989

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 819
Scope and Contents

Sterling R Grover collected personal narratives of children's folklore. Included are stories of songs, games, jump rope chants, and not-it rhymes. Project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1989.

Dates: 1989

Children's songs and rhymes / Thomas Eugene Henning, 1966

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 4
Identifier: FA 1 Item 820
Scope and Contents

Thomas Eugene Henning collected personal narratives of children's songs and rhymes. Included are songs the informant's sang as children, songs translated from different languages, and some songs written by one of the informants. Project was written for a Folklore F201 class taught at Indiana University in 1966.

Dates: 1966

American Macedonian folklore / Patricia A. Geroff, 1966

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 5
Identifier: FA 1 Item 821
Scope and Contents

Patricia A. Geroff collected personal narratives of American Macedonian folklore. Included are stories of games, home remedies, superstitions, traditional Macedonian recipes, and a wedding ritual. Project was written for a Folklore F201 class taught in Fort Wayne, Indiana, during 1st semester 1966.

Dates: 1966

Folk medicine / Gregory Rozelle, 1967

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 6
Identifier: FA 1 Item 822
Scope and Contents

Gregory Rozelle collected personal narratives dealing with folk medicine. Included are remedies for hiccups, warts, boils, pimples, black eyes, rheumatism/arthritis, asafedita, and a recipe for spring tonics. Project was written for a Folklore 201 class taught at Indiana University, Fort Wayne campus in 1967.

Dates: 1967

A collection of the folk history of Manassa, Colorado / Gayle Huffaker, 1971

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 7
Identifier: FA 1 Item 823
Scope and Contents

Gayle Huffaker collected personal narratives about the folk history of Manassa, Colorado. Included are descriptions of Manassa in 1920, the wealthiest man in Manassa buying himself a Model-T Ford, and the famous fighter Jack Dempsey ("The Manassa Mauler"). Project was written for an English 397 class in 1971.

Dates: 1971

Soap-making : the evolution of a lore / Judith P. Snyder, 1972

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 8
Identifier: FA 1 Item 824
Scope and Contents

Judith P. Snyder collected personal narratives related to soap making. Included are stories of making soap from ashes and lye water, and the process of soap making. Project was written and collected in 1972.

Dates: 1972

A comparison of the folklore of the wandering Jew and the folklore of the Three Nephites / Merilynne Rich , 1961

 Item — Box: 76, Folder: 9
Identifier: FA 1 Item 825
Scope and Contents

Merilynne Rich collected narratives documenting folklore of the Wandering Jew and the Three Nephites. Included are a comparison of the narratives, and a term paper for an English 674 class analyzing the legend of the Wandering Jew in English Romantic literature. Project was written in 1961.

Dates: 1961