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PhD English University of Texas at Austin
Masters English University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors English University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Wayland Debs Hand was an American folklorist. Biography Hand was born in New Zealand, where his parents had emigrated. A few years after his birth, the family returned to Utah, where Hand grew up. He attended the University of Utah, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in German in 1933 and 1934. He then earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1936, writing his dissertation on German folk songs.

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American folk medicine. A symposium (1977) (33)
Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina (1961) (22)
Popular beliefs and superstitions: A compendium of American folklore : from the Ohio Collection of Newbell Niles Puckett (1981) (21)
Magical Medicine: The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Folk Belief, Custom and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America. (1982) (20)
American Folk Legend: A Symposium. (1972) (20)
New Data on the System CdO—B2O3 (1962) (10)
The folk healer: calling and endowment. (1971) (8)
Status of European and American Legend Study (1965) (8)
American Folk Medicine (1979) (8)
Fishing and Hunting (1977) (7)
Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from Utah (1984) (7)
The ballad image : essays presented to Bertrand Harris Bronson (1985) (7)
California Miners' Folklore: Below Ground (1942) (7)
California Miners' Folklore: Above Ground (1942) (6)
Early Folk Medical Practices in Tennessee (1942) (6)
Folklore from Utah's Silver Mining Camps (1941) (5)
(Don't) throw the baby out with the bath water: the americanization of a German proverb and proverbial expression (1991) (5)
The Folklore, Customs, and Traditions of the Butte Miner (1946) (4)
European Fairy Lore in the New World (1981) (4)
Magical Medicine: An Alternative to "Alternative Medicine" (1985) (3)
American Notes & Queries (1944) (3)
Will-o'-the- Wisps, Jack-o'-Lanterns and Their Congeners: A Consideration of the Fiery and Luminous Creatures of Lower Mythology (1977) (3)
Anglo-American Folk Belief and Custom: The Old World's Legacy to the New (1970) (3)
A dictionary of words and idioms associated with Judas Iscariot : a compilation based mainly on material found in the Germanic languages (1942) (3)
Folk Curing: The Magical Component (1971) (2)
American Folk Song and Folk Lore: A Regional Bibliography (1943) (2)
Magic and the Supernatural in Utah Folklore (1983) (2)
Measuring and plugging: the magical containment and transfer of disease. (1974) (2)
Magyar Hiedelemmonda Katalogus (A Catalog of Hungarian Folk Belief Legends) (1983) (1)
Comparative Folk Medicine: The New Agendum (1983) (1)
Animal sacrifice in American folk curative practice. (1977) (1)
Folk Beliefs from Boise, Idaho (1969) (1)
Superstition, Custom, and Ritual Magic: Harry M. Hyatt's Approach to the Study of Folklore (1979) (1)
"Schweizer Schwingen": Swiss Wrestling in California (1943) (1)
The Lost Cabin Gold Mine (1946) (1)
American Folklore after Seventy Years: Survey and Prospect (1960) (1)
Twenty-Five Years of Folklore Study in the West (1966) (1)
Folk medical inhalants in respiratory disorders. (1968) (1)
“Curative Practice in Folk Tales” (1967) (1)
A German House-Raising Ceremony in California (1954) (1)
Onomastic Magic in the Health, Sickness, and Death of Man (1984) (1)
The Cowboy's Lament (1958) (1)
Inhalants in Respiratory Disorders (1964) (1)
Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor (1950) (1)
The Folklore, Customs, and Traditions of the Butte Miner (Concluded) (1946) (1)
Western Folklore, Vol. XXIII, Nos 1 and 2 (1965) (0)
A Miscellany of Nebraska Folk Beliefs (1962) (0)
Western Folklore, Vol. XXIV, Nos. 3 and 4 (1967) (0)
From Idea to Word: Folk Beliefs and Customs Underlying Folk Speech (1973) (0)
Folk Tales for Children (1972) (0)
Cosmic Phenomena: Times, Numbers, Seasons (1977) (0)
Magical treatment of disease by outlining the ailing part. (1972) (0)
A Horse in the Lode (1943) (0)
Death and Funereal Customs (1977) (0)
The Fatal Last Shift, etc. (1946) (0)
Two Child Ballads in the West (1959) (0)
A Treasury of Western Folklore B. A. Botkin (1952) (0)
"Springfield Mountain" and the Mexican War (1970) (0)
Songs of the Butte Miners (1950) (0)
Early American Proverbs@@@Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (1980) (0)
Reply to Parzen (1961) (0)
Cornish Miners' Custom (1942) (0)
Western Folklore. Vol. XXV, Nos. 3 and 4 (1968) (0)
INFORMANTS AND COLLECTORS (1977) (0)
Oregon Work Projects Administration Folklore Files (1945) (0)
Folklore, Mythology, Folk Music, and Ethnomusicology (1964) (0)
Nicknames of Butte Miners (1946) (0)
"That the child may rise in the world:" a folk belief and custom of the nursery. (1974) (0)
The Surfer's Lament (1970) (0)
A Bibliography of the Archives of the Utah Humanities Research Foundation, 1944-1947 (1948) (0)
North Carolina Folklore: Popular Beliefs and Superstitions 1-4783. The Frank C. Brown Collection (1962) (0)
Amazon Customs: Tribe Eats Its Dead as Mark of Respect (1970) (0)
The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. Volume VII: Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, 4874-8569 (1963) (0)
Mutual Helpfulness among Animals (1956) (0)
Doodlebugs and Mysteries of Treasure Hunting (1944) (0)
Witchcraft, Ghosts, Magical Practices (1977) (0)
Hoosier Folklore Bulletin (1942) (0)
Anti-Red "Folk Songs" (1967) (0)
More Circular Tales (1954) (0)
Dairy Witchcraft and the Ash (1959) (0)
Humaniora: Essays in Literature, Folklore, Bibliography. Honoring Archer Taylor on His Seventieth Birthday (1961) (0)
By land and by sea : studies in the folklore of work and leisure honoring Horace P. Beck on his sixty-fifth birthday (1988) (0)
Hat Burning at Childbirth (1955) (0)
"California Folklore Quarterly" and "Western Folklore": An Editorial Survey, 1942-1966 (1966) (0)
Cornish Flatiron Holder (1943) (0)
Plants, Plant Husbandry (1977) (0)
Animals, Animal Husbandry (1977) (0)
Der Skonk Pole Cat (1945) (0)

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