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Religion--United States--Folklore.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Wayland D. Hand collection of Superstition and Popular Belief

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_FOLK COLL 036
Abstract

A large-scale compilation of approximately 600,000 categorized folk belief entries, recorded on index cards by Wayland D. Hand, his colleagues, and students at UCLA. Drawn from books, interviews, and ephemeral sources, the collection spans the 19th and 20th centuries and is housed in ten file cabinets.

Dates: 1950-1996

USU student folklore genre collection of belief

 Collection
Identifier: UUS_FOLK COLL 8a_Group 2
Abstract

Folk beliefs collected by undergraduate students in USU (1969 to present) and BYU (1969 to 1978) folklore classes. Collected primarily in Utah, the items focus principally on folklore of the Western U.S.

Dates: 1960-2018