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English
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The Great and Dreadful Day : Mormon Folklore of the Apocalypse
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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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264-278
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In recent discussion of folk legends, Linda Dégh and Andrew Vázsonyi stated: “The legend remains one of the most characteristic and expressive folklore products of contemporary rural and industrial society.”1 If this statement is valid, then one of the best ways to learn what is going on in the minds of the Mormon people, to understand their subtle desires, their attitudes, and their tensions, is to look at their legends, at the stories they are currently telling, and at the beliefs that lie behind them. In Mormon lore one of the most interesting cycles of stories— and certainly one that reveals contemporary attitudes and stresses— is that relation to the apocalypse: to the second coming of Christ and to the end of the world. [From the text]