The Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University contain dozens of tales which include a line similar to the opening of a story collected at BYU in 1987: “Did you guys know that Cain is really Bigfoot?” Where did this Mormon meme come from? What cultural tendencies does it reflect? What does the evolution of … Continue reading SL10166: A Mormon Bigfoot: David Patten’s Cain and the Conception of Evil in Mormon folklore