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Edward D. Ives

Additional Files
NA2445_beliefs_abortion.pdf (3784 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Abortion, Causing Miscarriage
NA2445_beliefs_after_birth.pdf (1889 kB)
Folk Beliefs: After Birth
NA2445_beliefs_agriculture.pdf (9569 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Agriculture
NA2445_beliefs_animal_portents.pdf (28713 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Animal Portents
NA2445_beliefs_baby_care_luck.pdf (10102 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Baby Care
NA2445_beliefs_bed_wetting.pdf (2383 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Bed Wetting
NA2445_beliefs_birth_order.pdf (2197 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Birth Order
NA2445_beliefs_boats_ships_sailing.pdf (41514 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Boats and Ships
NA2445_beliefs_breast_ailments.pdf (1407 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Breast Ailments
NA2445_beliefs_breast_feeding.pdf (2398 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Breast Feeding
NA2445_beliefs_bringing_things_indoors.pdf (1494 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Bringing Things Indoors
NA2445_beliefs_care_of_newborns.pdf (3181 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Care of Newborns
NA2445_beliefs_care_of_the_dead.pdf (16348 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Care of the Dead
NA2445_beliefs_cats_and_babies.pdf (2776 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Cats and Babies
NA2445_beliefs_chairs_tables.pdf (1657 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Chairs and Tables
NA2445_beliefs_child_discipline.pdf (1823 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Child Discipline
NA2445_beliefs_childhood_ailments.pdf (4413 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Childhood Ailments
NA2445_beliefs_clothing.pdf (13534 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Clothing
NA2445_beliefs_colic.pdf (3141 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Colic
NA2445_beliefs_contraception.pdf (3727 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Contraception
NA2445_beliefs_cooking.pdf (6152 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Cooking
NA2445_beliefs_cosmic_phenomena_times_numbers_seasons.pdf (5459 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Cosmic Phenomena, Times, Numbers
NA2445_beliefs_days_of_the_week.pdf (5081 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Days of the Week
NA2445_beliefs_days_of_the_week.pdf (5081 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Death, Dying, the Dead
NA2445_beliefs_death_dying_the_dead.pdf (16786 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Animals
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_birds.pdf (51264 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Birds
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_colors.pdf (1524 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Colors
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_dogs.pdf (23531 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Dogs
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_dogs.pdf (23531 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Doors and Thresholds
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_dreams.pdf (23896 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Dreams
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_ebb_tide_outgoing_tide.pdf (4720 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Ebb Tides, Tides
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_fortune_tellers_ouiji.pdf (1497 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Fortune Tellers, Ouija
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_shoes_hats.pdf (5625 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Hats, Shoes, and Chairs
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_illness_physical_signs.pdf (1672 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Illness—Physical Signs
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_illness_seasons.pdf (6856 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Illness—Seasons
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_knives_sharps.pdf (3498 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Knives and Sharps
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_knocks_sounds.pdf (27354 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Knocks, Raps, and Sounds
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_life_milestones.pdf (1710 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Life's Milestones
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_lights.pdf (2364 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Lights
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_mild_winter.pdf (4009 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Mild Winter
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_rain_water.pdf (1463 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Rain and Water
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_rain_on_a_grave.pdf (2292 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Rain on a Grave
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_things_in_threes.pdf (23573 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Rule of Three
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_shooting_stars.pdf (6544 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Shooting Stars
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_sneezing.pdf (1399 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Sneezing
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_13_at_table.pdf (8121 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Thirteen at the Table
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_vehicles_vessels.pdf (1385 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Vehicles and Vessels
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_walking_on_grave.pdf (5182 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Walking on Grave
NA2445_beliefs_death_portents_watch_til_out_of_sight.pdf (2651 kB)
Folk Beliefs. Death Portents: Watch Until Out of Sight
NA2445_beliefs_devil.pdf (4932 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Devil
NA2445_beliefs_dishcloths_towels.pdf (860 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Dishcloths and Towels
NA2445_beliefs_dowsing.pdf (3038 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Dowsing
NA2445_beliefs_dreams.pdf (26185 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Dreams
NA2445_beliefs_eating.pdf (9952 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Eating
NA2445_beliefs_eating_utensil_salt.pdf (13119 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Eating Utensils and Salt
NA2445_beliefs_entering_a_house.pdf (2832 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Entering a House
NA2445_beliefs_fertility.pdf (7231 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Fertility
NA2445_beliefs_fishing_lobstering.pdf (19861 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Fishing and Lobstering
NA2445_beliefs_flirtation_jealousy_discord_loss_of_sweetheart.pdf (2006 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Flirtation, Jealousy, Discord, Loss of Sweetheart
NA2445_beliefs_food.pdf (5158 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Food
NA2445_beliefs_friends_enemies.pdf (9235 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Friends and Enemies
NA2445_beliefs_funerals_the_dead_graveyards.pdf (15869 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Funerals, the Dead, Graveyards
NA2445_beliefs_general_baby_care.pdf (2584 kB)
Folk Beliefs: General Baby Care
NA2445_beliefs_general_travel.pdf (8797 kB)
Folk Beliefs: General Travel
NA2445_beliefs_gestational_portents_of_baby_traits.pdf (26100 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Gestational Portents of Baby Traits
NA2445_beliefs_growing_pains.pdf (1685 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Growing Pains
NA2445_beliefs_holidays.pdf (3405 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Holidays
NA2445_beliefs_home_domestic_pursuits_miscellaneous.pdf (6721 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Home and Domestic Pursuits
NA2445_beliefs_household_furnishings_ladders_mirrors.pdf (12948 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Household Furnishings, Ladders, and Mirrors
NA2445_beliefs_hunting.pdf (5779 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Hunting
NA2445_beliefs_illness_care_prognosis.pdf (2746 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Illness, Care, and Prognosis
NA2445_beliefs_illness_causes.pdf (6747 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Illness, Causes of
NA2445_beliefs_illness_signs.pdf (4188 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Illness Signs
NA2445_beliefs_intercourse.pdf (1566 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Intercourse
NA2445_beliefs_intercourse.pdf (1566 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Judaism
NA2445_beliefs_knock_wood.pdf (1975 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Knock Wood
NA2445_beliefs_labor_pains.pdf (3003 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Labor Pains
NA2445_beliefs_lamps_candles_matches.pdf (20073 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Lamps, Candles, and Matches
NA2445_beliefs_love_charms_aphrodisiacs_etc.pdf (7250 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Love Charms, Aphrodisiacs, Love Signs
NA2445_beliefs_luck.pdf (32125 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Luck
NA2445_beliefs_lying_thievery_legal_guilt_murder_etc.pdf (2275 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Lying, Thievery, and Guilt
NA2445_beliefs_marital_status.pdf (2726 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Marital Status
NA2445_beliefs_menstruation.pdf (4032 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Menstruation
NA2445_beliefs_miscarriage.pdf (2007 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Miscarriage
NA2445_beliefs_money_luck.pdf (8171 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Money
NA2445_beliefs_morning_sickness.pdf (1680 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Morning Sickness
NA2445_beliefs_moving_setting_up_house.pdf (3445 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Moving and Setting Up House
NA2445_beliefs_order_and_time_of_marriage_delayed_marriage.pdf (4342 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Order and Timing of Marriage, Delayed Marriage
NA2445_beliefs_personification_of_death.pdf (1783 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Personification of Death
NA2445_beliefs_physical_attributes_as_portents.pdf (4499 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Physical Attributes as Portents
NA2445_beliefs_plant_signs.pdf (17924 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Plant Signs
NA2445_beliefs_portends of body_and_clothing.pdf (1928 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Portents of Body and Clothing
NA2445_beliefs_post_partum_care.pdf (7460 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Post-partum Care
NA2445_beliefs_postnatal_portents_of_baby_traits.pdf (20407 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Postnatal Portents of Baby Traits
NA2445_beliefs_pregnancy.pdf (5754 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Pregnancy
NA2445_beliefs_pregnancy_food_cravings.pdf (2335 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Pregnancy Food Cravings
NA2445_beliefs_pregnancy_health.pdf (2302 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Pregnancy Health
NA2445_beliefs_pregnancy_portents.pdf (1620 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Pregnancy Portents
NA2445_beliefs_pregnancy_sex.pdf (1485 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Pregnancy Sex
NA2445_beliefs_premature_birth.pdf (1716 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Premature Birth
NA2445_beliefs_premonitions.pdf (4698 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Premonitions
NA2445_beliefs_preventing_stillbirth.pdf (1962 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Preventing Stillbirth
NA2445_beliefs_racism_bigotry_ethnic_jokes.pdf (7218 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Racism, Bigotry, and Ethnic Jokes
NA2445_beliefs_recreation_sports_games.pdf (6562 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Recreation, Sports, and Games
NA2445_beliefs_rhymes_sayings.pdf (14790 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Rhymes and Sayings
NA2445_beliefs_riddle.pdf (4229 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Riddles
NA2445_beliefs_sailors_seamen.pdf (6087 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Sailors and Seamen
NA2445_beliefs_sewing.pdf (5381 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Sewing
NA2445_beliefs_sex.pdf (1427 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Sex
NA2445_beliefs_sex_of_baby.pdf (32335 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Sex of Baby
NA2445_beliefs_sleeping.pdf (3698 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Sleeping
NA2445_beliefs_stairs.pdf (3004 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Stairs
NA2445_beliefs_stores_slaughtering.pdf (2563 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Stores and Slaughtering
NA2445_beliefs_suicide.pdf (702 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Suicide
NA2445_beliefs_superstition.pdf (55105 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Superstition
NA2445_beliefs_sweeping_cleaning.pdf (3522 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Sweeping and Cleaning
NA2445_beliefs_teething.pdf (5043 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Teething
NA2445_beliefs_the_moon.pdf (4287 kB)
Folk Beliefs: the Moon
NA2445_beliefs_theaters_plays.pdf (1656 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Theaters and Plays
NA2445_beliefs_toilet_training.pdf (1400 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Toilet Training
NA2445_beliefs_travel_communication.pdf (2642 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Travel and Communication
NA2445_beliefs_twins.pdf (1684 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Twins
NA2445_beliefs_umbrellas.pdf (16720 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Umbrellas
NA2445_beliefs_visits_visiting.pdf (8981 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Visits and Visiting
NA2445_beliefs_war_military_planes.pdf (1847 kB)
Folk Beliefs: War, Military, and Planes
NA2445_beliefs_weaning.pdf (2179 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Weaning
NA2445_beliefs_weather.pdf (235021 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Weather and Weather Portents
NA2445_beliefs_weddings_married_life.pdf (10952 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Weddings and Married Life
NA2445_beliefs_where_babies_come_from.pdf (5239 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Where Babies Come From
NA2445_beliefs_wishes_wishing.pdf (7760 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Wishes and Wishing
NA2445_beliefs_witches_ghosts_vampires_magic.pdf (6242 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Witches, Ghosts, Vampires and Magic
NA2445_beliefs_work_labor_employment.pdf (4192 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Work, Labor, and Employment
NA2445_beliefs_yankee_thrift.pdf (1826 kB)
Folk Beliefs: Yankee Thrift

Publication Date

2024

Abstract/ Summary

This accession contains over 4,000 folk beliefs organized on individual, 4x6-inch index cards. A majority of the belief cards were collected by students participating during the 1960s as part of the American Folklore course taught by Dr. Edward D. “Sandy” Ives. Folk beliefs originate primarily from Maine and the Maritimes, but occasionally extend into other areas. Each download contains a copy of the 1965 syllabus for American Folklore, explaining the assignment given to students.

Please Note: A significant number of these cards are handwritten and are not currently available as typed transcriptions. The belief cards are organized into categories noted below. The accession includes the syllabus for Ives’ 1965 American Folklore class, which includes instructions guiding students in the collection and recording of folk beliefs.

Most folk beliefs are not cross-referenced within this collection. It is recommended that patrons search related subject categories. Example: information about black cats may be found with folk beliefs related to animal portents, animals, and luck.

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