Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

7/1/1980 - 6/30/1982

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$47,000.00 (approved)
$47,000.00 (awarded)


Dictionary of American Popular Beliefs and Superstitions [EAPBS]

FAIN: RT-*1460-80

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Wayland D. Hand (Project Director: October 1979 to October 1990)

To support the final stages of collecting and classifying entries for inclusion in a dictionary of American popular beliefs and superstitions. The dictionary, begun 35 years ago, will constitute a major resource in the study of American cultural history.