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Meeting: Passing by, over, and around Inanimate Objects

 Sub-Series — Box: 14, Folder: 4
Identifier: 20.4

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

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.

From the Collection:
  1. Ailments, Diseases, and Remedies
  2. Physical Attributes
  3. Emotional or Mental Ailments
  4. Signs and Portents of Sickness or Ailments
  5. Anatomical Phenomena as Signs and Portents
  6. Health, Hygiene, Beauty
  7. Love, Courtship, Marriage, Sex
  8. Pregnancy, Birth, Infancy
  9. Dying, Death, Funeral Customs, the Dead
  10. Cooking, Culinary Practices
  11. Beliefs about Food and Eating
  12. In and about the House
  13. Cloth, Clothing, Sewing, Adornment
  14. Prosperity, Wealth
  15. Work, Trades, Professions
  16. Friends, Visitors
  17. Enemies, Thieves, Liars, Murderers
  18. Religious
  19. Leisure Activities - Recreation, Sports, Games
  20. Travel
  21. Good News and Bad News
  22. Good Luck and Good Fortune
  23. Bad Luck
  24. Communication and Language
  25. Wishes
  26. Sleep, Dreams, Nightmares
  27. Holidays and Celebrations
  28. Times, Numbers
  29. Weather, Seasons
  30. Major Storms, Floods, Physical Disasters
  31. Cosmic Phenomena
  32. Plants and Plant Husbandry
  33. Animals and Animal Husbandry
  34. Witchcraft, Ghosts, Magical Practices, Evil Spirits
  35. Fortune Telling, Divination, Humans with Supernatural Powers
  36. Good Spirits
  37. Supernatural Creatures: Fairies, Elves, Leprechauns, etc.
  38. Technology
  39. Ethnic
  40. Places
From the Collection:

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

  • Creation: 1960-2018

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

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

Contact:
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan Utah 84322-3000 United States
435 797-8248
435 797-2880 (Fax)