Box 23
Contains 15 Results:
Dame, Michael L.
"A Few Stories from Utah"; Customary Lore--superstitions Oral Tradition--local legends: grave digger banished to Fremont Island, underwater tunnel to Pacific Ocean, Indian-white relationships, Mountain Meadows Massacre, bottomless lakes, creatures in lakes, man with hooked arm in Payson Canyon, dream mine, ghost stories, UFO sightings; Utah (photo copies of photos).
Palmer, Gwen Gowans
"New Year's 'Sweet Birds'"; Customary Lore--New Year's holiday; (Informant in) Tooele, Utah (geneology chart).
Wade, Susan
"Maid, You Better Shoot"; Oral Tradition--folksong (words and music); (Collected in) Draper, Utah.
Webb, Curtis
"Poker as Folklore"; Customary Lore and Behavior--game variants, superstitions; Oral Tradition--folk speech, naming; (Students from) Idaho, Michigan, Oregon, Illinois, Iowa.
Alford-Jenkins, Robin
"A Survey of Quilt Making Within One Oklahoman Family"; Material Culture--folk craft; Okalahoma and Utah (photos, designs).
Ashley, Pat
"Rock Water--Natural Folk Medicine in Utah"; Material Culture--food, drink; Customary Lore and Behavior--superstitions, beliefs, folk medicine; Emery and Salt Lake Counties, Utah (illustrative material).
Badger, LeAnn
"A Modern Day Dowser"; Customary Lore--water-witching superstitions; Oral Tradition--legend, character: Richard (Dick) Frisbey; City Creek in Salt Lake City, and north, Utah; Wendover, Nevada; Idaho (slides, photocopies of manuals, 2 cassettes).
Cates, Joe
"Pit Bulls and Pit Bull People"; Human Condition--dog-fighting; Bountiful, Utah (cassette).
D'Alessandro, Ed
"Alligators in the Sewer: Function and Meaning in a Modern 'Belief Legend"; Oral Tradition--modern urban legend; (Informants in/from) New York, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, Connecticut, Colorado, Utah.
Erickson, Reed
"Domestic Folk Architecture in Midway, Utah"; Material Culture--folk architecture; Midway, Utah (photos, slides).
Flinders, David
"True Riddle"; Oral Tradition--riddle about teeth, variants Utah.
Garbett, Jan V.
"Songs My Grandmother Sings"; Oral Tradition--folk songs Utah.
Isaacson, Bruce
"The Bear Lake Monster and Its Function in Two Cultures"; Oral Tradition--legend: non-religious supernatural and supernatural water creature; Rich County, Utah (map, cassette).
Jones, Larry
"Animals Understand Swear Words: A Study in the Folklore of Swearing"; Oral Tradition--folk speech; character: J.Golden Kimball, Evan E. Jones; Malad and Pocatello, Idaho.
Jones, Talmage
"Folk Remedies for Arthritis and Rheumatism"; Customary Lore--folk beliefs, superstitions Utah, Arizona, California.