Latter Day Saints -- Folklore
Found in 4596 Collections and/or Records:
The unifying importance of tradition : narrative collection / By Heather Bennett Dudley, 1999
Dudley compiled family traditions practiced by her friends. Included are annual camping trips, cooking baking days, and weekly date nights. The paper was written for Dr. Thursby's English 356 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1999.
The uninvited : the ghosts of Brigham Young University , 2019
Submitted by BYU student Melanie Kimball for her English 391 course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. Includes moving images of legend tripping. About ghost stories associated with BYU campus.
The unique language of cheerleaders / Sam Jenkins, 2013
The urban legends of missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2019
Submitted by BYU student Cosenza Hendrickson. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant interviews. About legends on disobedient missionaries. Includes legends such as hot tubbing in the baptismal font, secret organizations, and eloping missionaries.
The use of initiative games in the out-of-doors / Julia Dillman, 1977
Dillman collected instructions for initiative games that are played out of doors. The games are played as a form of team building. Situations are presented to a team in which there is an end goal and limited ways to solve the problem. Included are instructions for the team to play through each challenge and the physical set up of each scenario. Project was created for an English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1977.
The use of medical folklore in modern times / Cynthia Rich, 1971
Submitted by BYU student Cynthia Rich for her Fall 1971 English 391 class. About how, despite modern advances in medicine, people still use traditional home remedies that may or may not be scientifically backed. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include cures like hot whiskey and sugar, stuff and starve, an ice-cold sheet, wreath of garlic keeping a cold away, dead cats, and much more.
The validating formula: convergence of folklore with internet culture, 2021
Submitted by BYU student Regan Poulsenfor her ENG 391 fall course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. About how folklore is increasingly transmitted online rather than face to face. Includes narratives on the squatting man, bigfoot, haunted test centers, vanishing hitchhikers, and car crashes.
The value of a kiss : a comparison of first kiss and first spouse kiss stories, 2007
Item is a collection of first kiss stories and how they vary from the first time the wedded interviewee kissed his or her spouse. Includes four married couples telling of there individual first kisses, and then how they compared to the first kiss that they shared as a couple. Created for Dr. Rudy's English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University during the Winter Semester, 2007.
The Variwood Farm Creamery of Lakeview, Utah / Dayna Bunnell, 1984
Dayna Bunnell collected information about the 19th century Variwood Farm Creamery in Lakeview, Utah. Included are descriptions of the structure, the process of milk separation and butter making, and and a description of the community of Lakeview at the time of the Variwood Farm Creamery. Project was written for an Anthropology 390R class taught by Pamela Blakely at Brigham Young University during Spring semester 1984.
The verbal lore of Edward Bleak Powell : why which stories are told when / Kim M. Thompson, 1995
Kim M. Thompson transcribed and analyzed an interview conducted by her sister, Sage Marie Thompson, with her grandfather, Edward Bleak Powell. Included are stories about the informant's homestead, service in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the informant's ancestors, stories from his mission, and his courtship and marriage to his wife, Evelyn.