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Series 5: Student research - Kentucky (continued)
Subseries 6: Work files/classified files (tales, legends, customs), 1948-1957, undated
The files within each of these sub-subseries have been kept in their original order, as received from the donor. While the folklore of other states is included in this subseries, the majority of the material pertains to Kentucky.
Group 1
BOX-FOLDER 50/7 Table of contents-individual folklore collections (1/2)
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 50/8 Table of contents-individual folklore collections (2/2)
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 50/9 Murray State College individual tables of contents: legends and tales (1/4)
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 50/10 Murray State College individual tables of contents: legends and tales (2/4)
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 51/1 Murray State College individual tables of contents: legends and tales (3/4)
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 51/2 Murray State College individual tables of contents: legends and tales (4/4)
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 51/3 Folksong Texts-typed copies for classification files
BOX-FOLDER 51/4 Folksongs-Kentucky and Tennessee
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 51/5 Folksong texts-Murray State College files
Group 2
BOX-FOLDER 51/6 Folk beliefs: death signs
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 51/7 Ghostly noise as death warning
BOX-FOLDER 51/8 Just plain ghosts (simple apparitions in human form)
BOX-FOLDER 51/9 "Things" - figures, shapes, etc.
BOX-FOLDER 51/10 Vanishing hitchhiker (1)
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 51/11 Ghostly passenger
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 51/12 The "felt" or attacking ghost
BOX-FOLDER 51/13 Ghosts explained
Work file copy
Group 3
BOX-FOLDER 52/1 Folk beliefs: weather
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/2 Don Prince; Crossville, Illinois
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/3 Tales and legends from Eastern and Southern Tennessee and Mississippi
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/4 Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas tales and legends (for Midwest Folklore)
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/5 Mysterious lights
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/6 Mysteries about places
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/7 Mysterious sounds/noises
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/8 The "felt" or attacking ghost (interfering)
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/9 Strange occurrences (not supernatural)
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/10 Supernatural (ghostly) action/behavior of objects
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/11 Ghost story cycles
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/12 The seeking ghost
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/13 Ghost as person
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/14 Headless ghost
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/15 Vanishing hitchhiker (2)
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/16 Ghostly passenger
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/17 Ghostly animal
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/18 Ghost image: outline, shadow, figure
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/19 Ghost image: the face/figure in the window
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 52/20 Ghost as shape [undefined, vapor, etc.]
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/1 Ghostly noise or voice
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/2 Several varied ghostly manifestations
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/3 Ghost’s treasure
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/4 Poltergeists and ghostly tricks
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/5 Deadly ghost
Classification file copy
Group 4
BOX-FOLDER 53/6 Ineradicable blood stain
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/7 "Bell witch" legend (polergeist) (1)
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/8 Mysteries about places: Harpending House, etc.
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/9 "Laying" ghosts
BOX-FOLDER 53/10 Ghosts, haunts [miscellaneous stories]
Classification file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/11 Not to be used [miscellaneous stories]
Includes a section on "Ghostly American Legends," removed from a copy of Life magazine (October 28, 1957).
BOX-FOLDER 53/12 Water witching
BOX-FOLDER 53/13 Fairies, pixies, little people
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/14 Supernatural: pain in amputated limb
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/15 Seeming dead revive
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/16 Not usable, I think [miscellaneous stories]
BOX-FOLDER 53/17 Other states-ghosts and scary (pulled from state folder stories)
Group 5
BOX-FOLDER 53/18 Ghost as person
BOX-FOLDER 53/19 Fake ghosts
BOX-FOLDER 53/20 Supernatural (ghostly) action/behavior of objects
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 53/21 Ghosts explained and fake ghosts
Group 6
BOX-FOLDER 54/1 Poltergeists and ghostly tricks
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 54/2 Several and varied ghostly manifestations - haunted house mixtures
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 54/3 Ghost’s treasure: the helpful revealing ghost
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 54/4 Notes on animal ghosts
BOX-FOLDER 54/5 Animal ghosts
BOX-FOLDER 54/6 Helpful ghosts - advising, reproving, warning
BOX-FOLDER 54/7 Ghosts, phantom dogs, etc. - excerpts from publications
BOX-FOLDER 54/8 The seeking ghost or searching with purpose
Work file copy
BOX-FOLDER 54/9 Avenging/dangerous ghosts
BOX-FOLDER 54/10 Supernatural (miscellaneous stories)
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