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.

This series consists mostly of tributes and commentaries on Wilgus's scholarly achievements published on the occasion of his death.

Box 1

1. Biography

2. Lecture Notes (Western Kentucky State College)

This series consists of rough draft typescript material relating to the folklore bibliographies and folksong syllabus that Wilgus published in Kentucky Folklore Record 1955-1962.

Box 1 (cont.)

3. Kentucky Folklore Bibliography
4. Kentucky Folklore Record Bibliography Issues, 1957-1962
5. Syllabus of Kentucky Folksong

This series consists of bibliographical and discographical listings of published and archival sources that document various aspects of Kentucky folklore and music.

6. Kentucky Folklore Published Sources - Typescript
7. Kentucky Ballads and Folksongs Collected by Cecil Sharp
8. Theses Referencing Kentucky Folklore
9. D. Williams Tapes (copies of commercial recordings)
10. Kentucky Related Library of Congress Recordings

1. Anti-Mormon Publications
2. Annabel Buchanan Song Texts and Tune Transcriptions
3. Collecting Leads
4. Dulcimer
5. Folklorists - Duncan Emrich
6. Floyd County School Bus Tragedy (clippings and notes)
7. Folklorists - Lucy Furman
8. Folklorists - Dorothy Howard
9. Kentucky Local History - 1776 Map of Kentucky (facsimile)
10. Kentucky Folklore Society
11. Bradley Kincaid Correspondence (Bibliography - Discography)
12. Bradley Kincaid Correspondence (Bibliography - Discography)
13. Bradley Kincaid Correspondence (Bibliography - Discography)
14. Bradley Kincaid Correspondence (Bibliography - Discography)
15. Folklorists - Bill Malone
16. Josephine McGill
17. Folklorists - Lawrence Thompson
18. Western Kentucky State Teachers College 1906-1931
    (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Publication)
19. Vaughn Williams Memorial Library - Cecil Sharp Photo Collection
    Post Cards (One each, Virginia and Kentucky Subjects)
20. Folklorists - Gordon Wilson
21. Charles Wolfe Interview (clipping)
22. Index Card File of Sayings and Other Spoken Lore

1. Beliefs and Superstitions
2. Beliefs and Superstitions
3. Beliefs and Superstitions
4. Beliefs and Superstitions
5. Beliefs and Superstitions
6. Beliefs and Superstitions
7. Beliefs and Superstitions

Box 4

1. Beliefs and Superstitions
2. Beliefs and Superstitions
3. Beliefs and Superstitions
4. Beliefs and Superstitions
5. Custom and Belief
6. Customs - Old Christmas Party
7. Customs - Miscellaneous
8. Ghost Stories (Entertainment Tales)
9. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Bogey Men
10. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Campus Legends
11. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Dreams
12. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Haint (Rational)
13. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Haunted Areas and Places
14. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Haunted Hanging Sites
15. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Haunted Houses
16. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Haunted Treasure
17. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Headless Ghosts
18. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Incubus on Horseback
19. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Ineradicable Bloodstains, etc.
20. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Non-Visual Manifestations
21. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Pranks
22. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Supernatural Animals

Box 5

1. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Revenants
2. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - "Scarbrow" / "Ole Saint"
3. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - "Something"
4. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Supernatural Lights
5. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Supernatural Music
6. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Vanishing Hitchhiker
7. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - The White Lady
8. Ghost Stories and Superstitions - Witch Tales
9. Jokes
10. Language (Mountain Phrases)
11. Lower Mythology
12. Riddles
13. Riddles
14. Sayings and Riddles
15. Sayings and Superstitions
16. Similes and Sayings
17. Song Texts
18. Song Texts

This series consists of content records for approximately 148 audio field recordings of folk music and narrative recorded by Wilgus and others, 1955-1965. For several there are also typed transcriptions of song texts heard on the recordings. The recordings are housed at the Western Kentucky University Folklife Archives. There are also copies at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.

Box 6

1. Tapes in Western Kentucky Folklore Archive (List and Correspondence)
2. Index Wilgus Tapes 1-25
3. Index Wilgus Tapes 26-50
4. Index Wilgus Tapes 52-75
5. Index Wilgus Tapes 76-125
6. Index Wilgus Tapes 126-148
7. O'Connor Tape Index T-7- 60-8 (Horse Cave, KY - July 1960)
8. Laws Tape Index T-7-67-18 (Cardiff, CA July 1967)
9. Phil Aaron - Song Texts [Transcribed From Tapes?]
10. Student Recording Project - Brenda Powman Hall (Green County, KY)
    Song Texts-Tune Transcriptions
11. Song Texts-Tune Transcriptions - Yvonne Gregory
    Tapes T-7-65-151, 152, 155-158
12. Student Recording Project - Barry Hanson
    Tapes T-7-26, 27, 32, 33 Song Texts (Mrs. Vera Martin)
13. [Student Recording Project?] - Shirley Hay / Terry Black
    Song Texts -Tune Transcriptions
14. Student Recording Project - Elvis Humble
    Song Texts (Margaret Tucker)
15. Student Recording Project - Wendell Mann
    Song Texts (Pauline Mann)Tape T-7-60
16. [Student Recording Project?] Jerry Powell
    Song Texts
17. Student Recording Project - Nancy Priddy
    Song Texts
18. Student Recording Project - Jane C. Rose
    Song Texts
19. [Student Recording Project?] - Jerry Wilcher
    Song Texts
    

This series consists of student folklore collections that include such subject areas as ballads, games, legends, local history, recipes, remedies, and superstitions.

Box 7

1. Games - Jo Anne O’Connor
2. Games - Miscellaneous Games
3. Legends - Wash Nelson- Greenup County
4. Legends - Jo Anne O’Connor
5. Legends - Miscellaneous Legends
6. Local History - Allen County
7. Local History - Allen County
8. Local History - Allen County
9. Local History - Eighty-Eight - Barren County
10. Local History - Etoile - Barren County
11. Local History - Temple Hill - Barren County
12. Local History - Burkesville - Cumberland County
13. Local History - Preachersville - Mause (Garrard - Lincoln Counties)
14. Local History - Meade County
15. Local History - Eastern Kentucky
16. Local History - Ohio River
17. Local History - Paint Valley, Ohio
18. Local History - Perry County
19. Folk Poetry - Jo Ann O’Connor
20. Miscellaneous Folk Poetry
21. Folklore - Recipes - Macie Franklin
22. Folklore - Recipes - Nellie Wallace
23. Folklore - Recipes - Ronelle Wells
24. Folklore - Recipes
25. Folklore - Home Remedies - Barren County
26. Superstitions - Monroe County - Eva Bybee
27. Song Texts - Marina Bolkeman Collector
28. Song Texts - Cordy [Blanche?]Goode
29. Song Texts - John Grumlie (Unnamed Student Paper)(Sorey)
30. Song Texts - Jo Ann O’Connor
31. Song Texts - B. Olivier
32. Song Texts - Tom Owens
33. Miscellaneous Folklore - Barren County
34. Miscellaneous Folklore - Breckinridge County
35. Miscellaneous Folklore - Montgomery County
36. Trigg County Folklore & Lifeways - James Crisp
37. Miscellaneous Folklore - Eliza Calvert Hall - Warren County
38. Miscellaneous Folklore - Joseph F. Profio

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