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Subject Source: Archiveswest

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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