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Submitted by BYU student Gae Vivian Werner for her Winter 1980 English 391 class. About the culture and folklore of high school in America. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include vandalism and other mysterious night activites, pep rallys, spirit raising and lunctime activities, traveling traditions, good luck traditioins, the rival game, haltime celebratons, winning or losing, alumni and the football game.

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Submitted by BYU student by Alison Williams for her English 391 winter course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains an autobiographical sketch, cover essay, and informant interviews. About wild bear encounters.

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Petersen studies the traditional folklore and folk beliefs surrounding pageants. Created by Emily January Petersen when she was enrolled in Jill Terry Rudy's English 391 course in the fall of 2000.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Mele Bryant for her Winter 2012 English 392 class for Professor Eliason. About the choices women make when it comes to personal care and beauty remedies, and the things they retell. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' beauty remedies, from egg whites for shiny hair, coconut milk to make hair strong, bleaching hair with vinegar or lemon juice, lemon juice on freckles to lighten them, Windex, toothpaste as a deoderant and to ger rid of...

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Norton collected family traditions from subjects. Included are a snow picnic where a campfire meal is eaten in the snow, a tradition of eating almond rice pudding on New Year's, and eating black eyed peas on New Years for good luck. The project was collected for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

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Christensen collected personal narratives about pranking from his wife's Aunt, Becky Peterson. Included are stories of pranks played during her childhood in Clarkeston, and her employment as a tour guide in Nauvoo and at the Brigham Young farmhouse. Project was collected for an English 667 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1996.

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Submitted by BYU student Clay Gibb for his Introduction to Folklore course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains an autobiographical sketch, cover essay, and informant interviews. About Albertan hunting traditions in Alberta, Canada. Informants discuss what makes someone a true Albertan hunter.

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Peters examines the childhood commonality of aversion to going to bed as an expressed form of apprehension of the unknown. Popular childhood fears are discusses, as well as practical and effective ways to prepare a child to rest more peacefully each night. Created by Kristi Peters while enrolled in Jacqueline Thursby's English 425 course during summer semester of 2005.