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2016

Beliefs proverbs superstitions

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Talley, Martha (Fa 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Talley, Martha (Fa 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 998. Project titled: “Quilts and Quilting in the Jonesville Community of Hart County, Kentucky.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting methods, terms, patterns beliefs, and superstitions in Hart County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, pattern, and a photo of the quilt.

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Schweers, Sheila (Fa 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Schweers, Sheila (Fa 992), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 992. Project titled: “Churning and Molding Butter.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of superstitions, proverbs, and songs about churning and molding butter in Logan County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, terms, informant’s name, motif index number, and a photo of a churn or related item.

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Gamblin, Margaret, B. 1949 (Fa 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Gamblin, Margaret, B. 1949 (Fa 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 997. Project titled: “Quilting.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting methods, terms, and patterns in McCracken County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, and a photo of the quilt.

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Hooe, Laura (Fa 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Hooe, Laura (Fa 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 996. Project titled: “Candy-making and Candy Pulling.” Includes survey sheets with recipes and brief descriptions of methods and superstitions regarding candy-making in Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description and informant’s name.

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Shidal, Denise (Fa 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Shidal, Denise (Fa 995), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 995. Project titled: “Quilting.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting methods and patterns in Shelby County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, terms, and a photo of the quilt.

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Chatelain, Marcia Anne (Fa 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Chatelain, Marcia Anne (Fa 994), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 994. Project titled: “Folklore in Cookery.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of beliefs, superstitions, proverbs, tales, riddles, songs and recipes of food preservation in Franklin County, Jefferson County, Oldham County, Pulaski County, and Warren County, Kentucky and Missouri. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

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Porch, Bob, B. 1950 (Fa 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Porch, Bob, B. 1950 (Fa 993), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 993. Project titled: “Fishing.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of stories, methods, beliefs about fishing in the Penny Royal Region of Kentucky and New Jersey. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

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Spears, Sandra (Fa 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Spears, Sandra (Fa 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 999. Project titled: “Folk Medicine in Allen County.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of folk remedies and beliefs in Allen County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and the motif index number.

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Mcmurray, Becky (Fa 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Mcmurray, Becky (Fa 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 988. Project titled: “Folk Housing: Deatsville and Bardstown, Kentucky.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of the informant’s beliefs and superstitions as well as information abpit structures in the Deatsville and Bardstown areas of Nelson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description, informant’s name, motif index number of the belief, and a photo of the structure.

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Mcgown, Joe (Fa 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Mcgown, Joe (Fa 991), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 991. Project titled: “"Funeral Customs" compiled by Joe McGown for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes individual survey sheets listing a single funeral custom, the informant, date, and location. A large number of photographs, documenting tombstones, are included in the collection. The location of the tombstones is not included, but most of the survey work was done in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Stewart, Karen (Fa 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Stewart, Karen (Fa 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 984. Project titled: “Funeral Beliefs, Customs, and Tombstone Art in Western Kentucky.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of funeral beliefs and customs and tombstone art in the Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky. Sheets can include a brief description, informant’s name, motif index number, and a photo of a tombstone.

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Tichenor, Judy, B. 1951 (Fa 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Tichenor, Judy, B. 1951 (Fa 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 987. Project titled: “Quilting in Ohio County.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of quilting practices, superstitions, and patterns in Ohio County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, questionnaire answers, informant’s name, terms, implements, and photos of quilts.

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Castillo, Jesse (Fa 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Castillo, Jesse (Fa 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Slaughter, Michael R. (Fa 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Slaughter, Michael R. (Fa 973), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Elmore, Harold W. (Fa 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Elmore, Harold W. (Fa 975), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Miller, Herbert (Fa 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Miller, Herbert (Fa 971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 971. Paper titled: “The Girl in the Window.” Includes descriptions of variations of the Russellville Girl story collected in Jefferson County and Logan County, Kentucky.

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Watson, Betty Lou (Fa 959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Watson, Betty Lou (Fa 959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 959. Paper titled: “Under the Waves.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of the valley and its farm life to be flooded by the Green River Reservoir in the Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, illustrations, and photos of the area.

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Hay, William G. (Fa 951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Hay, William G. (Fa 951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 951. Paper titled: “Hardin Springs.” Includes description, terms, beliefs, and photos of Hardin Springs and the watermill in Hardin County, Kentucky.

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Dennison, Robert (Fa 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Dennison, Robert (Fa 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 942. Project titled: “Ghosts and Omens of Death.” Includes introduction of ghost stories and omens of death collected in Hart County, Kentucky.

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Oldham, Barbara (Fa 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Oldham, Barbara (Fa 924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 924. Paper titled: “Negro Folklore.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of African American beliefs and superstitions in Ohio County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

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Taylor, Alan (Fa 925), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Taylor, Alan (Fa 925), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 925. Paper titled: “A Collection of Folk Beliefs.” Includes introduction of folk beliefs in Daviess County, Hancock County, and Ohio County, Kentucky.

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Mason, Thomas Lee (Fa 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Mason, Thomas Lee (Fa 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 926. Paper titled: "Proverbs and Beliefs." Project includes introduction of folk beliefs and proverbs in Fayette, Jefferson, and Spencer counties in Kentucky.

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Medaris, Jere (Fa 915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Medaris, Jere (Fa 915), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 915. Project titled: “[Folk Beliefs]” Project includes brief paper with introduction of folk beliefs and superstitions in Kentucky.

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Kenneweg, Nancy (Fa 919), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Kenneweg, Nancy (Fa 919), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 919. Paper titled: “Beliefs Associated with Love, Courtship, and Marriage.” Includes paper with introduction of love and marriage beliefs and superstitions in Campbell, Crittenden, Kenton and Warren counties, Kentucky.

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Line, Kenny (Fa 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Line, Kenny (Fa 921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 921. Project titled: “Folk Beliefs and Superstitions.” Includes paper with introduction of folk beliefs in Barren Grayson and Jefferson counties in Kentucky.

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Jenkins, David (Fa 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Jenkins, David (Fa 918), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 918. Project titled: “Folk Medicine Beliefs.” Includes paper with introduction of folk medicine beliefs and superstitions in Warren County, Kentucky.

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Sullivan, Barbara D. (Fa 922), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Sullivan, Barbara D. (Fa 922), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 922. Paper titled: “Food Preservation.” Includes paper with introduction of food preservation methods in Barren County, Kentucky.

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Cruse, Billy (Fa 917), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Cruse, Billy (Fa 917), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklilfe Archives Project 917. Project titled: “Negro Folklore.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of African American beliefs, epitaphs, and stories in Hart County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and motif index number.

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Johnson, Danny (Fa 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Johnson, Danny (Fa 911), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 911. Project titled: “Ghost Stories.” Project includes survey sheets with descriptions of ghost stories from Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan. Sheets include a description of the ghost story and informant’s name.

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Wheeley, Suzanne (Fa 912), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2016

Wheeley, Suzanne (Fa 912), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 912. Project titled: “Folk Beliefs Collection.” Project includes note cards with brief descriptions of songs, beliefs, sayings, tales, and occurrences from Hancock County and Warren County, Kentucky. Note cards include a brief description, informant’s name, and some have the motif index number.

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