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English
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A Mormon from the Cradle to the Grave
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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102-113
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We have outlived the legend that the Mormon may be identified on sight as he goes about, complete with horns and hooves, leering indiscriminately at females. So completely has the Mormon been integrated into American culture that we have reached the point where it takes some discernment to identify him. However, we should not be deceived by external appearances. Legends which he transmits, hero images fixed in his mind since childhood, rituals which he performs, attitudes that are dear to him with respect to ancestors, his role in this life and in worlds to come— a ll of these things differentiate him somewhat more than did the caricatures of the closing years of the nineteenth century. [From the text]