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Latter Day Saint churches -- Folklore

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4536 Collections and/or Records:

A collection of angelic experiences / Holly Olsen, 2003 April 3

 Item — Box 254: [Barcode: 31197233254918], Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 2762
Scope and Contents note

Collection of stories about angelic experiences. All of the informants are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Olsen asserts that each of the experiences is very personal and very real. She reveres each of the stories as sacred and should be treated as such. Olsen makes note of common themes found with the narrations. Created by Holly Olsen while he was enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 class during the winter semester of 2003.

Dates: Other: 2003 April 3

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

 Item — Box 19: [Barcode: 31197233253118], 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

A collection of children's humor / Judi McConkie, 1969

 Item — Box 29: [Barcode: 31197233253316], Folder: 5
Identifier: FA 1 Item 308
Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Judi McConkie for her Summer 1969 English 391 class. About the humor of children in remedial summer reading classes. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, and the children's items. Items include riddles such as Why is a Cook Mean? What does a Ghost Drink? the Difference between a hill and a pill? many more riddles, and off-color jokes like What did the Burp say to the Other Burp? and others, jokes such as the three tortoises, the lion's claw, the rabbit in the...
Dates: 1969

A collection of college football traditions, 2011 December 3

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31197233256913], Folder: 6
Identifier: FA 1 Item 5030
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Matthew Harrison for her English 392 fall course for Dr. Dennis Cutchins. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. About the footbal traditions that fans particpate in during games. Inlcudes interviews about football traditions from Harvard University, Washington University, Cornell University, and the University of Georgia.

Dates: 2011 December 3

A collection of computer lore / Casey Allen, 1987

 Item — Box 69: [Barcode: 31197233253779], Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 748
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Casey P. Allen for his Folklore 391 class. About folklore of computer users in the 80s, including pranks and the stories of those knowledgeable about computers. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include lack of knowledge stories, pranks, system crashes, and miscellaneous items.

Dates: 1987

A collection of dormitory pranks / Susan Brady, 1975

 Item — Box 16: [Barcode: 31197233253225], Folder: 2
Identifier: FA 1 Item 173
Scope and Contents

Brady collected a series of pranks played on individuals while staying in college dorms. Includes bathroom pranks, bed pranks, car pranks, door pranks, food pranks, pranks intended to frighten, letter pranks, phone pranks, traditional pranks and prank wars. Project was created for an English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1975.

Dates: 1975

A collection of drawings in class notes, 2018

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31197233256723], Folder: 4
Identifier: FA 1 Item 4891
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Manon Hales for his English 391 course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains a small booklet of drawings gleaned from class notes.

Dates: 2018

A collection of edible and medicinal plants foraged in Utah, 2021

 Item
Identifier: FA 1 Item 5069
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Clarissa Chipman for her English 391 fall course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. A field guide to 68 edible and medicinal plants found in Utah.

Dates: 2021

A collection of epitaphs / C. Janean McPolin, 1969

 Item — Box 29: [Barcode: 31197233253316], Folder: 10
Identifier: FA 1 Item 313
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student C. Janean McPolin for his/her Fall 1969 English 391 class. A collection of epitaphs from Provo, Heber, and Springville in Utah. Contains a cover essay and collected epitaphs. Genres of epitaphs include those lauding the virtue of the dead, epitaphs spoken by voices from the dust, grief and sadness, peace and rest, afterlife, hope of an afterlife, and hope of a glorious resurrection.

Dates: 1969

A collection of epitaphs / Elaine Dalton, 1969

 Item — Box 20: [Barcode: 31197233253241], Folder: 1
Identifier: FA 1 Item 213
Scope and Contents

Dalton decided that her long interest in epitaphs and tombstones would be worth an investigation for a folklore course. She included the text of the epitaph and, for many of the tombstones, images of the grave marker; she divided the kinds of epitaphs in the following categories philosophies, brief candles, memento mori, sermons on stone, tribute to dead, and victims of chance and circumstance. Project was created for an English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1969.

Dates: 1969