Indiana University Folklore Institute Beliefs collection, 1967-1970
A Guide to the Records at the Indiana University Archives
Finding aid prepared by Jesse Fivecoate.
Summary Information
Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives
Creator
Indiana University. Folklore
Institute.
TitleIndiana University Folklore Institute
Beliefs collection, 1967-1970
Collection No.
C606
Extent
0.4 cubic feet
(1 box)
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
The Indiana University Folklore
Institute has a long history of collecting oral verbal literature and arts. This
collection consists of folk beliefs, ranging from superstitions, folk beliefs
regarding sports and wedding ceremonies, collected by students taking courses in the
Folklore Institute.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.
Biographical Note/Administrative History
The Folklore Institute at Indiana University began as an eight-week program in the
summer of 1942 under the
directorship of Professor Stith Thompson. From June 29 to August 22 of that year
residential and visiting faculty taught courses, which carried university credit, on
a number of topics. Course topics ranged from an introductory course on folklore to
field collecting and recording to the folk tale and similar forms. Others covered
folk song and folk music as well as Native American folklore.
The Folklore Institute grew into a stable research branch of Indiana University's
College of Arts and Sciences in 1949 and received
departmental status with an independent faculty in 1963,
however the Graduate School first listed M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Folklore for the
academic year of 1949-1950. Since the academic year
of 1971-1972 the Institute has offered an
undergraduate degree in folklore as well. The Institute has also had a long history
with research and teaching interests in ethnomusicology. In 2000 the Ethnomusicology Institute was created and merged with the
Folklore Institute to become the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, which
now offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in both fields.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into one series of Beliefs.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of a number of folk belief items collected by students at
the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington. A number of the
individual items include notation corresponding to Wayland Hand’s categorization of
folk belief. This appears in the papers as “Hand” along with a number in red ink,
which corresponds to his collections of North Carolina folk beliefs and
superstitions in the
Frank C. Brown Collection of North
Carolina Folklore
(1964) and
American folk
beliefs in his Popular Beliefs and Superstitions: A Compendium of American
Folklore
(1981).
Folk beliefs represented here include beliefs regarding sports, test-taking, wedding
ceremonies, black cats, good luck, bad luck, cures for maladies, folk remedies,
health and illness, folk religious beliefs, bingo, witchcraft, occultism, plants,
salt, ghosts, hauntings, Stepp Cemetery, fever worm, dreams, prognostication,
charms, cigarettes, dinner, dress and adornment, clothing, umbrellas. The beliefs
are organized by the accession number originally assigned by the folklore
archives.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
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Related Material
Additional records such as newsletters, annual reports, bulletins, and publications
may be accessed in the
Archives of Institutional Memory.
Archived web sites for the Institute may be included in
Archive-It.
Related photographs may be available in the
University Archives
Photographs Database
.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Accession 2003/055
Usage RestrictionsThe donor(s) of this collection have not transferred their copyrights for the materials to the Trustees of Indiana University.
For more information, please contact the Indiana University Archives staff.
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inclusion on our site, please contact the Indiana University Archivist.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Indiana University Folklore Institute Beliefs collection, Collection C606, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Provenance
Transferred to the IU Archives in 2003 by John McDowell, Chair of the Folklore
Department.
Processing InformationProcessed by Jesse Fivecoate.
Completed in 2016
Container List
Series:
Box 1
Beliefs, 1967-1970
Beliefs 70:1-260
26 folders
Beliefs 71:1-90
9 folders
