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The lightning is the angels playing flashlight tag.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Racing Chasing Fighting BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
Down South dragon flies are called snake doctors by the old
blacks because they believe that dragon flies bring dead
snakes back to life and the blacks are really afraid of
snakes. So, whenever a black man sees a dragon fly around
he knows that there's a snake around.
Where learned: VIRGINIA, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00001977CA
Religious belief or tale
When I was a little girl my mother used to try and soothe me
during a thunder and lightning storm by telling me that when it
thunders, it is God bowling and when it lightnings God hits a
strike.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANTHROPOMORPHISM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
Go to Sleep!!
My little sister has more energy than three children and when
bed time came around it was four children. Me on the other hand
was ready to sleep at bed time. We shared a room so this caused a
problem. To get her to go to sleep I would tell her that Thunder
and Lightning does not like noise at night and if she was not
quiet they would come and get her. She was so terrified that she
would put her under the cover and not make a sound. Within five
minutes she would be fast asleep. This worked well on rainy
days.
Submitter comment:
Now that she is older we can laugh about it. I think it is
neat. It's as if I've started my own folk story that can be passed
on.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00001970S
Whenever there was particular loud thunderstorm with plenty of
lightning I was always told that it was the devil beating his wife
for something she had done which in turn the downpour of rain that
came along with the thunder was the angels crying in sympathy for
the devil's wife.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Aberdeen
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
When the sun is out and it's thundering, raining, and it is
said that the Devil is beating his wife.
Where learned: Rome, Georgia
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Sun BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
When it is lightening and thundering outside always cut off
all the electricity and be silent because the Lord is talking.
Submitter comment:
As me and my sister were playing UNO, it started to storm
outside. My mother said, "Please turn off the television and
come in the bedroom and rest because it is storming outside and
we should be silent because this is the Lord's time to talk.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00-00-1977
Thunder is really potatoes rolling down a hill after God
spills a cart full of them.
Submitter comment:
This was told to children at one time to prevent them from
being afraid of thunder.
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00-00-1956
Thunder is really the angels bowling in Heaven.
Submitter comment:
This was told to children to prevent them from being afraid of
thunderstorms.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 02-00-1992
Thunder is God's way of showing anger at the wrong and sin
happening on Earth.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Nature Beliefs
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 02-00-1992
If the milking had not been completed and the milk cooled by
the time a thunderstorm broke, the milk would turn sour.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Drink from animal product Milk BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
IF IT THUNDERS BEFORE 7 P.M., IT WILL RAIN BEFORE 11.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Nature
I never like to have any windows or blinds opened during any
kind of thunderstorm, because I am always afraid that lightening is
going to strike.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; Macon County
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
GROMNICA
IF YOU LIGHT A BLESSED CANDLE WITHIN YOUR HOME DURING A
RAINSTORM IN WHICH THERE IS MUCH THUNDER AND LIGHNING,
YOUR HOME WILL BE SAFE FROM THE DANGER OF BEING STRUCK
BY THE LIGHTNING.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS AN OLD POLISH BELIEF WHICH THE INFORMANT, MY
MOTHER, DISTINCTLY REMEMBERS AS BEING PRACTICED IN HER
HOME WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 01-08-1964
LIFT FOR STRENGTH
WHEN MY BROTHERS AND SISTER WERE CHILDREN, WE WOULD RUN
TO LIFT SOME HEAVY OBJECT--TABLE, CHAIR, BUCKET OF COAL--
WHENEVER WE HEARD THE FIRST THUNDER OF THE YEAR. WE
WERE INITIATED INTO THIS PRACTICE BY MY MOTHER AND
DAD WHO BELIEVED THAT IF YOU LIFTED SOMETHING HEAVY AT
THE SOUND OF THUNDER FOR THE FIRST TIME, DURING THE
YEAR, WE WOULD ALL BE HEALTHY, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY,
STRONG, DURING THE COMING YEAR.
Submitter comment:
DURING A RECENT CONVERSATION WITH MY MOTHER, SHE
REMINDED ME OF THIS PRACTICE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Number BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 05-15-1965
SYMBOLISM OF NATURE
LIGHTNING WAS GOD BECOMING ANGRY AND PUNISHING THE
ANGELS.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER FATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 04-04-1967
SYMBOLISM OF NATURE
THUNDER WAS A SIGN THAT THE ANGELS WERE HAVING A WAR.
Submitter comment: LEARNED AS A CHILD FROM HER PARENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 04-04-1967
DURING A THUNDERSTORM, TO AVOID BEING HIT BY LIGHTNING,
IT IS ADVISABLE TO BURN ONE OF THE BLESSED PALMS
WHICH WERE DISTRIBUTED ON PALM SUNDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
James Callow Keyword(s): FIRE SMOKE FUMIGATION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 10-25-1969
IF LIGHTNING OCCURS DURING THE WINTER, THE REST OF THE
WINTER WILL BE VERY HARSH.
Where learned: HOME ; NEW YORK ; LE ROY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
A PERSON SHOULD NEVER BE TAKING A BATH OR WASH HIS
HAIR, OR BE IN CONTACT WITH WATER IN ANY WAY DURING
A THUNDER STORM.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A COMMON PROHIBITION USED IN THE INFORMANT'S
FAMILY. SHE REMEMBERS HER FATHER BEING VERY STRICT
ABOUT THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Water |
Date learned: 04-24-1965