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Full-Text Articles in Folklore
Mf006 Bowdoin College Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf006 Bowdoin College Folklore Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
Twenty-six student papers written for a course in folklore offered at Bowdoin College during the fall semester, 1980.
Lambert, Carl (Fa 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lambert, Carl (Fa 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1318. Student folk studies project titled “Folklore Collection [of Strange Stories],” which includes descriptions of three ghost stories from Adair County and Allen County, Kentucky. Stories include each informant’s name and address.
Anglin, Dana (Fa 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Anglin, Dana (Fa 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 1313. Student folk studies project titled: “Folklore Collection,” which includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of legends, ghost stories, beliefs, and superstitions in Logan County and Franklin County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of belief, legend, or superstition, informant’s name.
Wiseman, Michelle (Fa 1306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wiseman, Michelle (Fa 1306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1306. Student project titled “Folk Songs and Legends,” which includes survey sheets of folk songs and folk legends collected in Indiana and Kentucky. Sheets may include folk songs, lyrics, musical scores, Brown Collection variant number, legends, informant’s name, age, and address.
Fuller, Patrick Jon (Fa 1305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fuller, Patrick Jon (Fa 1305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1305. Student project titled “Slave Folklore,” which includes details about the memories regarding black magic and ghost stories of Anna Belle Daves in Christian County, Kentucky. Survey sheets include quotes from Daves.
Mchugh, Walter (Fa 1297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mchugh, Walter (Fa 1297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1297. Project titled “Weather Sayings and Ghost Stories,” which includes weather sayings and ghosts stories collected from WKU students and a faculty member in Warren County, Kentucky by WKU folk studies student Walter McHugh. Sheets may include saying, story, and informant name and location.
Odum, Daisy Dean, 1877-1969 (Sc 3426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Odum, Daisy Dean, 1877-1969 (Sc 3426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3426. Letter to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from Daisy Odum. She recounts a ghost story from DeKalb County, Tennessee, involving her nephew and the reaction of his horse to the sight of a spectral figure.
Clinard, Pamela And Laura Drew (Fa 1281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clinard, Pamela And Laura Drew (Fa 1281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1281. Student folk studies project titled “The Bell Witch,” which includes two papers with descriptions of the Bell Witch legend in Robertson County, Tennessee. Sheets may include descriptions of the legend, text classifications, transcriptions of interviews, names of informants, ages, locations, illustrations, and photos.
Uren, Doris Et Al. (Fa 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Uren, Doris Et Al. (Fa 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1233. Student folk studies project titled “Märchen [Fairy tales],” which includes survey sheets with a description of a fairy tale collected in Kentucky and Tennessee by students at Campbellsville College, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description of a fairy tale, informant’s name, age and address. The first name of the collectors Asher and Wall were not provided.
Ohio River Survey (Fa 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ohio River Survey (Fa 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 656. Kentucky Folklife Program project titled: “Ohio River Survey,” which includes interviews, tape logs, photographs and other documentation of folklife along the Ohio River in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Interviews may include a description of belief, traditional occupation, practice, craft, or tool, informant’s name, age, birth date, and address.
Bartlett, Karen (Fa 1204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bartlett, Karen (Fa 1204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1204. Student paper titled “Frightening Folktales” in which Karen Bartlett gathers together an assortment of various ghost stories and urban legends. Bartlett collected the tales from family members, friends, and classmates.
Halgash, Rhonda (Fa 1187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Halgash, Rhonda (Fa 1187), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1187. Student paper titled “A Collection of Ghost Stories” in which Rhonda Halgash gathers together supernatural tales and explores recurring motifs and common variants. Halgash collected stories from close friends who also attended Western Kentucky University.
Carter, Dinah And John Eder (Fa 1175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Dinah And John Eder (Fa 1175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Fokllife Archives Project 1175. Student folk studies project titled “Tunnel Mill” which includes an interview and documentation about the history of Tunnel Mill in Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana. Sheets may include an interview, a photograph and informant’s name.
Downs, Percy Ray, Jr. (Fa 1174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Downs, Percy Ray, Jr. (Fa 1174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1174. Student paper titled “Headless Woman’s Rock” in whichPercy Ray Downs, Jr. examines legends relating to an isolated area of woods located approximately nine miles southwest of Leitchfield in Grayson County, Kentucky. The supernatural tales were collected by Downs from his grandfather and step-grandmother who are deeply familiar with both the surrounding land and the ghostly stories.
Loader, Brian R. (Fa 1163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Loader, Brian R. (Fa 1163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives 1163. Student paper titled “College Horror Stories” in which Brian Loader collects tales relating to supernatural occurrences on WKU’s campus as well as sororities and fraternities among various schools in Tennessee. Loader gathered stories from campus custodians and close friends.
Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Kaye (Fa 1150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1150. Student folk studies project titled “From Slavery to Freedom for the Negro Race in Logan County [Kentucky]” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of African American life in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets may include interviews, written records, photographs, informant’s name, age, and address.
Collins, Sara (Fa 1134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Collins, Sara (Fa 1134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1134. Student paper titled “Ghost Stories on a College Campus” in which Sara Collins gathers together tales of the supernatural. Collins places the stories into four main categories: “true” (classic), “memorate” (personal experiences), “regional” (local), and “other campuses.” Stories were collected by Collins from friends and fellow classmates.
Hartz, Amelia Culley (Allen), B. 1950 (Fa 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hartz, Amelia Culley (Allen), B. 1950 (Fa 1094), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1094. Student folk studies project titled: “Tales From Peacher Mill Road,” which includes survey sheets about the farms and residents of the Peacher Mill community in Montgomery County, Tennessee. Survey sheets may include a story, tradition, photo, name, and brief description.
Clark, Jim L. (Fa 1078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, Jim L. (Fa 1078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1078. Paper titled “Supernatural Tales from the Lower Green River” by Jim L. Clark in which he presents supernatural tales that he collected from ten individuals. He provides the informant name, date of collection, motif index number (for some), the narratives.
Groebli, Glenn E. (Fa 1070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Groebli, Glenn E. (Fa 1070), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1070. Paper titled “Stories and Tales Told By James Robert Keltner and Flonnie Ross Keltner.” Paper is based on an oral interview with the Keltners at their home in Okolona, Jefferson County, Kentucky, but the stories and tales are from Adair County, Kentucky. Besides the recording Groebli has typescripted a number of the stories and provided photos of the informants and their home.
Sutherland, David (Fa 1056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sutherland, David (Fa 1056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1056. Student folk studies project titled: “Ghost Stories Western Students Tell,” which includes survey sheets with ghost tales in Fayette County, Indiana and in Allen County, Jefferson County, Warren County and Webster County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a ghost story, informant’s name and address, and motif index number.
Reesor, Gary (Fa 1068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reesor, Gary (Fa 1068), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1068. Paper titled “Legends and Tales of Bullitt County” by Gary Reesor based on an interview with Ivy McBride of Bullitt County, Kentucky. McBride provides tales, legends, ghost stories, and information about traditional folk ways in Bullitt County, Kentucky.
Morrow, David L. (Fa 1019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morrow, David L. (Fa 1019), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1019. Folk studies student project titled: “Forms and Origins of Gravestones in Various Parts of Russell County, Kentucky,” which includes descriptions of gravestones in Russell County, Kentucky. Included are brief information of gravestone producers, graveyard and gravestone information, a tale, and photos.
Castillo, Jesse (Fa 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Castillo, Jesse (Fa 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 983. Project titled: “Folklore Collection.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of folk remedies, sayings, and ghost stories from Warren County, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Marsh, Mary (Arnold) (Fa 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Marsh, Mary (Arnold) (Fa 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 982. Project titled: “Collected Stories: John D. Arnold.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of stories about John D. Arnold collected in the Penny Royal Region of Kentucky. Sheets include a description of the story and informant’s name.
Slaughter, Michael R. (Fa 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slaughter, Michael R. (Fa 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 973. Paper titled: “The Ghost of the Bridge.” Includes brief descriptions of stories about parked lovers collected in the Bluegrass and Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
Hazelip, Pauline (Fa 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hazelip, Pauline (Fa 974), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 974. Paper titled: “Tales of Glasgow Junction.” Includes brief descriptions of stories, pranks and incidents related to Glasgow Junction and Park City, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description of the story and the informant’s name.
Elmore, Harold W. (Fa 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elmore, Harold W. (Fa 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 975. Project titled: “Transcriptions of stories, song lyrics and calls.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of stories, song lyrics, doodle bug charms, and calls from Edmonson County and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and some with motif index number.
Carter, John Mark (Fa 945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, John Mark (Fa 945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 945. Paper titled: “A Collection of Ghost Stories.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of ghost stories from Bowling Green, Frankfort, and the Pennyrile region of Kentucky, and California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.
Rivers, David (Fa 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rivers, David (Fa 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 944. Paper titled: “Ghost Stories.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of ghost stories from the Bluegrass and Pennyrile regions of Kentucky, and from Sumner County, Tennessee, Mississippi and Ohio. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.