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Accession Number: 67
D.K. Wilgus Folklore Collection, 1918-1989
5 Linear Feet
Online Catalog
Record (BANC)
Overview & Series Description
Biography
Series I - Biographical
Series II - Teaching Materials
Series III - Writings
Series IV - Reference Material
Series V - Subject Files
Series VI - General Folklore Collections
Series VII - Field Recordings Indexes and Transcriptions
Series VIII - Student Folklore Collections
Series IX - Josiah Combs Folklore
Collection
Series X - Herbert Halpert Folklore
Collection
Series XI - Lynwood Montell Folklore
Collection
Series XII - E.C. Perrow Folklore
Collection
Series XIII - Leonard Roberts Folklore
Collection
Series XIV - D.L. Thomas Folklore
Collection
Series XV - Newspapers - Folklore
and Local History
Series XVI - Ohio Valley Folk Research
Project Publications
Series XVII - Kentucky Superstitions Card Archive
Related Berea College Archives
Josiah Combs Collection, SAA 71, Berea College Southern Appalachian
Archives
Bradley
Kincaid Collection, SAA 13, Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives
Leonard
Roberts Collection, SAA 57, Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives
Related Archives at Other Institutions
D.K. Wilgus Collection, Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky University, Bowling
Green, KY.
D.K. Wilgus Papers, Southern Folklife Collection, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
D.K. Wilgus Folksong Collection, Ethnomusicology Archive,
University of California Los Angeles.
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Kentucky Superstitions Card Archive |
Small Boxes 1-31 |
The Kentucky Superstitions Card Archive includes thousands of notecards that
record specific sayings, idioms, and anecdotes relating to local folklore,
superstitions, and general beliefs. Compiled by D.K. Wilgus with the
assistance of Eleanor Long-Wilgus, the Card Archive is organized by subject.
Topics include signs of health and illness, folk remedies, weather signs,
and superstitions related to relationships, birth and death, bodily functions
and disease,
farming, and nature.
For a detailed listing of sub-category headings, click
here to access the full pdf version. (Link will open a new window)
Box 1 - Birth and Infancy
Box 2 - Infancy and Childhood
Box 3 - Childhood, The Human Body
Box 4 - The Human Body (con't)
Box 5 - The Human Body (con't), Bodily Functions
Box 6 - Bodily Functions (con't), Bodily Activities
Box 7 - Bodily Activities (con't)
Box 8 - Bodily Activities (con't), Apparel & Ornaments
Box 9 - Health & Sickness (Folk Medicine) (con't)
Box 10 - Health & Sickness (Folk Medicine) (con't)
Box 11 - Health & Sickness (Folk Medicine) (con't)
Box 12 - Health & Sickness (Folk Medicine) (con't)
Box 13 - Health & Sickness (Folk Medicine) (con't)
Box 14 - Health & Sickness (Folk Medicine) (con't)
Box 15 - Health & Sickness (Folk Medicine) (con't)
Box 16 - Love, Courtshp & Marriage
Box 17 - Love, Courtshp & Marriage (con't)
Box 18 - Domestic Pursuits
Box 19 - Domestic Pursuits (con't), Travel & Communication
Box 20 - Travel & Communication (con't), Social Relationships & Recreation
Box 21 - Social Relationships & Recreation (con't), Economic & Business Affairs, Death & Dying
Box 22 - Death & Dying (con't), Religion, Witchcraft, Lower Mythology, Supernatural
Box 23 - Supernatureal (con't), Cosmic Phenomenon, Time, The Universse, Weather
Box 24 - Weather (con't)
Box 25 - Weather (con't)
Box 26 - Weather & Animal Signs
Box 27 - Weather & Animal Signs (con't), Animals & Animal Husbandry
Box 28 - Animals (con't)
Box 29 - Animals (con't), Plants & Plant Husbandry
Box 30 - Plants (con't), Indexes: Informants & Collectors, Towns, Counties
Box 31 - Miscellaneous unfiled cards
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