Accession Number: 57
The Leonard Ward Roberts Collection
Papers and Sound Recordings 1949-1983
27.8 Linear Feet
44 Cassette Tapes
99 Reel Tapes
Online Catalog Record (BANC)

Overview & Series Description
History
Series I - Biographical Information
Series II - Writings
Series III - Publications Edited by Leonard Roberts
Series IV - General Correspondence
Series V - Subject Files
Series VI - Ballad and Song Texts
Series VII - Student Folklore Collections
Series VIII - Games
Series IX - Regional Writers
Series X - Community Histories
Series XI - Folklore
Series XII - Folktales
Series XIII - Folksong Texts
Series XIV - Folkways
Series XV - Genealogy
Series XVI - Interviews
Series XVII - Indians
Series XVIII - Teaching Aids
Series XIX - Audio Tapes and Transcripts
Series XX - Card Files

Material in this series can be classified under the broad categories of "General Tales," "Riddles" and "General Rhymes." Subjects include anecdotes, Civil War tales, characters, creatures, ghosts, supernatural stories, riddles, and rhymes used at home or school in children's games.

Box 28

1. Anecdotes
2. Anecdotes
3. Anecdotes
4. Anecdotes
5. Animals
6. Animals and Animal Husbandry
7. Animals and Animal Husbandry
8. Animal Tales
9. Animal Tales
10. Birth, Infancy, Childhood
11. Characters
12. Characters
13. Characters
14. Civil War
15. Civil War

Box 29

1. Clever Man and Lucky Accidents (1525-1674)
2. Cosmic Phenomena: Time, Numbers, and Seasons
3. Couples and Women
4. Courtin'
5. Courtship
6. Creatures: Fabulous, Strange, and Dangerous
7. Creatures: Fabulous, Strange, and Dangerous
8. Cumberlands - Pikeville High School Student Project
9. Cumberlands - Pikeville High School Student Project
10. Crime Including Hangings and Lynchings
11. Death and Funeral Customs
12. Domestic
13. Families
14. Fishing and Hunting
15. Formula Tales
16. General

Box 30

1. Ghosts
2. Ghosts
3. Ghost Legends
4. Ghost Tales
5. Ghost Tales
6. Ghost Tales
7. Ghost Tales
8. Ghost Tales
9. Ghost Tales
10. Ghost Tales

Box 31

1. Home, Domestic Pursuits
2. Humor, Tricks and Anecdotes
3. Humorous
4. Humorous
5. Humorous Verbalizations
6. Humorous Verbalizations
7. Hunting
8. Hunting
9. Jack Tales
10. Idiot
11. Indians
12. Legends-Folk
13. Legends-Local
14. Legends-Local
15. Love, Courtship, and Marriage
16. Miscellaneous, Addenda
17. Murder
18. Negro
19. Novelle (Romantic Tales)

Box 32

1. Numskull Stories
2. Numskull Stories
3. Numskull Stories
4. Plants and Plant Husbandry
5. Poems
6. Pranks
7. Pranks, Tricks, Hoaxes etc.
8. Prose
9. Proverbs and Sayings
10. Religion, Ceremonies, Devil and Ghost Influences, Legends
11. Religious Tales
12. Stupid man, Preachers and Others 1674-1874
13. Stupid man, Preachers and Others 1674-1874
14. Stupid Ogre

Box 33

1. Supernatural
2. Supernatural Adversaries
3. Supernatural Adversaries
4. Supernatural Adversaries
5. Supernatural Adversaries
6. Supernatural Adversaries
7. Supernatural Relatives and Tasks
8. Supernatural Helps and Magic Objects
9. Supernatural Power and Knowledge
10. Tales of the Living
11. Tales of the Living

Box 34

1. Tales of the Living
2. Tall Tales
3. Witches
4. Travel and Communication
5. Unclassified
6. Weather
7. Witches
8. Riddles
9. Riddles
10. Riddles
11. Riddles

Box 35

1. General Rhymes
2. General Rhymes
3. General Rhymes
4. General Rhymes
5. General Rhymes
6. General Rhymes

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