Folklore

USU English professors Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill join us to talk about some of the top trending digital items for the year of 2022.

On this episode we talk folklore and music with Steven Hatcher, the Idaho Folk Arts Coordinator, and Damian Rodriguez, a Tejano musician who performed as part of the 2022 Fife Honor lecture.

Tales of supernatural encounters may tell us more about ourselves than we realize. Writer and teacher Darren M. Edwards explains what spooky stories can reveal about Utah culture and the human experience.

Often seen as symbols of witchcraft or bad luck in Western cultures, black cats are featured prominently on Halloween decorations and in ghost stories.

On this episode we are joined by Lynne McNeill. We talk Slenderman's origins, The Kevin Bacon Number and more.

A TikTok video of a young Scottish mailman singing the traditional sea shanty “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” and memes that poked fun at the self-described “QAnon Shaman” were among the top digital folklore trends of 2021.

The same ghost stories are told year after year around Halloween. In Utah, you might have heard of The Purple Lady at the Rio Grande Depot, or the Hermit…

St. Anne’s Retreat, located in Logan Canyon, is well-known to Cache Valley residents due to the folklore of the place: tales of demonic nuns, evil…

Quoting Kristen Munson in Utah State Magazine: “In mid-January, the internet was awash in sea shanty videos on TikTok. A week later, memes of Vermont…

St. Anne’s Retreat, located in Logan Canyon, is well-known to Cache Valley residents due to the folklore of the place: tales of demonic nuns, evil…