Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Brent Earl for his Winter 1986 English 392 class. About the culture of law school, and how students cope with its rigors. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include ways to make the law school experience more tolerable, supersititons, trickster hero in law school, doing what is necessary, student pretentiousness, improper way of addressing a professor, harsh professors, humorous professors, bizarre...

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Submitted by BYU student Kaley Clarke for her English 391 winter course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains autobiographical sketch, cover essay, and informant interviews. About missionary folklore on Russia. Includes interviews on the tension between Russians and the American missionaries.

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Jensen interviews tenants of Sparks II in Provo, Utah to collect stories involving the apartment complex, and the community that lives there. Includes jargon used, ways to manipulate maintenance, and stories that surround the complex. Project was created for Kristi Bell's English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University during the winter semester of 2002.

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Submitted by BYU student Shawnee Hawkes about the Bear Lake Monster legend of Bear Lake, Utah. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant interviews. Includes stories about how the legend fits into Native American and Mormon folklore and personal accounts of witnessing the monster. Submitted for the winter 2016 English 392 course for Professor Eric A. Eliason.

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Collection of horror stories involving "The Hook." Includes various versions of a frame story about a maniac with a hook for an arm that attacks late at night, as well as variations such as tales where the boyfriend gets killed, the killer is hiding in the backseat, and where the hook is used as a murder weapon. Created for Utah State University's English/History 526 course in the Fall, 1982.

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Fuller collected family traditions related to the Tooth Fairy. Included are the traditions of placing the tooth under the child's pillow, getting small amounts of money in exchange for the lost teeth, and a Mexican variation in which a rodent, the Tooth Rat, steals off with the tooth and leaves money. The project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1995.

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Carr interviewed men who had served missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the mission president Madrid. Included are spiritual happenings, prophecies, and warnings that he had with the missionaries or shared with the missionaries. Project was created for an English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1999.

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Submitted by BYU student Betty Sharon Smith for her English 391 class under Dr. Wilson. About the legend of the Navajo Indian's "wolfmen". Contains a cover essay about the wolf man, and informant items. Items include people's personal experiences with the wolfmen, and the more traditional legends.

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Stoddard remembers and explores the life of her grandfather, John Jerome Whetten. She analyzes the events that shaped him into the person he is, and the effects that he has had on the lives of others. She examines how his stalwart example and legacy of spirituality have sculpted her family's traditions, relationships, and culture. Created by Jean-Marie Stoddard while enrolled in Jill Terry Rudy's English 392 course during winter semester 2007 at Brigham Young University.

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Submitted by BYU student Blaine M. Yorgasen for his December 1977 class. About the various experiences and stories of character Bishop John Gayle Yorgasen. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informant stories. Stories include categories like shaggy dog stories, Pete Myer stories, Brigham Young stories, Sanpete citizen stories, Personal experiences, spiritual experiences, a memory tour of Fountain Green, and more.