Longevity
Scope and Contents
The USU Student Folklore Genre Collection: Group 2: Belief consists of approximately 4,000 individual items of beliefs collected by undergraduate students. Most items include informant, context, text (the folklore item), texture (stylistic notation), and collector data. The materials reflect both insider (esoteric) and outsider (exoteric) views of a folk group and may be prejudiced or stereotyped.
- Ailments, Diseases, and Remedies
- Physical Attributes
- Emotional or Mental Ailments
- Signs and Portents of Sickness or Ailments
- Anatomical Phenomena as Signs and Portents
- Health, Hygiene, Beauty
- Love, Courtship, Marriage, Sex
- Pregnancy, Birth, Infancy
- Dying, Death, Funeral Customs, the Dead
- Cooking, Culinary Practices
- Beliefs about Food and Eating
- In and about the House
- Cloth, Clothing, Sewing, Adornment
- Prosperity, Wealth
- Work, Trades, Professions
- Friends, Visitors
- Enemies, Thieves, Liars, Murderers
- Religious
- Leisure Activities - Recreation, Sports, Games
- Travel
- Good News and Bad News
- Good Luck and Good Fortune
- Bad Luck
- Communication and Language
- Wishes
- Sleep, Dreams, Nightmares
- Holidays and Celebrations
- Times, Numbers
- Weather, Seasons
- Major Storms, Floods, Physical Disasters
- Cosmic Phenomena
- Plants and Plant Husbandry
- Animals and Animal Husbandry
- Witchcraft, Ghosts, Magical Practices, Evil Spirits
- Fortune Telling, Divination, Humans with Supernatural Powers
- Good Spirits
- Supernatural Creatures: Fairies, Elves, Leprechauns, etc.
- Technology
- Ethnic
- Places
Forms one of nine subgroups in the Utah State University student genre collection, housed in the Fife Folklore Archives. Guide to folklore collecting assignments.
For items submitted since December 2017, please see Student Folklore Fieldwork, housed in Digital Commons.
Dates
- 1960-2018
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, series number, sub-series number, if applicable, box number and folder number (or image number).
Extent
From the Collection: 20 boxes (ca. 4000 items) (10 linear feet)
Repository Details
Part of the Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Repository
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan Utah 84322-3000 United States
435 797-8248
435 797-2880 (Fax)
scweb@usu.edu