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Items with subject 'Folklife - Folk Stories and Legends'
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Folklife Collection - Urban Legend: The Vanishing Hitchhiker
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about a vanishing hitchhiker. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legend: The Workman in Concrete
by Salisbury University Students (1972)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the year 1972, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about a construction worker who dies when he falls while they were pouring concrete thus getting stuck in a column. Some stories say this occurred at the Chesapeake Bay bridge. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legend: Undesirable Objects in Food
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1971 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about people finding undesirable objects in food such as rats, insects, or fingers. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legend: Vermin in Hairdo
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1972)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1971 to 1972, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about men and women whom have fancy hairdos but find themselves hospitalized due to finding vermin or insects in their hair. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legends of My Neighborhood
by Salisbury University Students (1983)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1983, former Salisbury University Student Jamie O'Connor collected folk material. His work pertains to urban legends of his neighborhood. Some of the stories reported are the "Hookman", the "Microwave Dog", or the "Vanishing Hitchhiker".
Folklife Collection - Urban Legends: Miscellaneous
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of urban legends. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legends: The Babysitter
by Salisbury University Students (1971 – 1972)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1971 to 1972, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about the babysitter who was one the phone with a killer who was also inside the home. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legends: The Boyfriend's Death
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about a boyfriend who is murder outside of the car which the girlfriend is still inside of. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legends: The Hook Man
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about a couple in a car who hear scratching outside, the boy goes to investigate and does not return. The girl and police find the boy the next day, murdered and all cut up. Thus the killer gaining the name of the Hooked Man. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Urban Legends: The Killer in the Back Seat
by Salisbury University Students (1970 – 1973)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents during the years of 1970 to 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk legends. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of the urban legend about the impending murder of a female driver who is unaware of a murderer in the back seat of her car, but the girl was always saved or protected by other people. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Using Oral History to Study Social Studies
by Salisbury University Students (1978)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1970, Salisbury University students and teachers collected folk life material. In this folklore report, Regina Jugler conducted a family history project with sixth-grade students. She had them interview their family members to help them develop self-awareness and realize that they too are makers of folklore. This report explains the research methods applied and the expected behavioral results.
Folklife Collection - Watermen from Neavitt
by Salisbury University Students (1990)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1990, former Salisbury University Student Linda James collected folk material. Her collection focuses on watermen's folklore. She interviewed three local residents of the Eastern Shore on their view about the changes in this vocation over the years but also how they predict the weather and other accounts of superstitions.