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SONG
IN THE LAND OF ODEN
THERE IS A MOUNTAIN
WHICH IS TWENTY MILLION
MILES IN THE AIR.
AND EVERY MILLION YEARS
A LITTLE BIRD COMES A WINGING
TO SHARPEN HIS BEAK ON THAT MOUNTAIN;
THEN HE QUICKLY DISAPPEARS.
AND WHEN THAT MOUNTAIN
HAS WORN AWAY
THAT'S WHEN ETERNITY WILL BE
ONE SINGLE DAY
ONE SINGLE DAY
ONE SINGLE DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LAPEER ; CAMP O'FAIRWINDS
James Callow Keyword(s): ODIN ; RELATIVITY
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Formation BELIEF -- Measure of time |
Date learned: 06-00-1979
ONE MUST NEVER LET THE HAIR FROM THEIR BRUSH OR COMB
FALL TO THE GROUND. IF A BIRD WERE TO BUILD A NEST
WITH THIS HAIR, THE PERSON FROM WHICH THE HAIR CAME
WILL EXPERIENCE HEADACHES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001930ca
Betting on a cock fight with an excess of more than one hundred
dollars and the cock that you bet on loses, you will have
bad luck for one week.
Submitter comment:
I learned of this belief back in seventh grade when we had a
guest speaker come in and talk to the class about games
involving animals.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WEST BLOOMFIELD
Keyword(s): Ring, Money.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Racing Chasing Fighting BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1983
Putting tabasco sauce on bread and feeding it to ducks can
put a curse on you. And soon something degrading will
happen to you.
Submitter comment:
I learned of this story back in grade school when the
teacher scolded some of my friends for going to the pond
and feeding the ducks with bread soaked in tabasco sauce.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WEST BLOOMFIELD
Keyword(s): tabasco, hot, spicy.
James Callow Keyword(s): CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ; FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Curse |
Date learned: 00-00-1983
The pelvic bone from a turkey must be saved
and put to dry for seven days. When it is dry
two people hold the two ends of the horseshoe
shaped bone and then pull. The one who gets
the middle part (a knob) gets their wish that was
wished before the pulling.
Where learned: NEW JERSEY ; Penns Grove
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 00001980S
IF YOU HEAR OR SEE BIRDS DURING A RAINSTORM THE POSSIBILITY OF
A TORNADO IS GREAT.
Where learned: MISSOURI
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Wind Whirlwind Hurricane Cyclone Tornado BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001940S
IF YOU SEE AN OWL DURING THE DAY YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK TILL
AUTUMN.
Where learned: GREECE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Measure of time AutumnFall BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
In some small towns of Greece, it is believed that if an owl
appears at a house at night and "sings" someone in that house will
die.
Submitter comment:
My informant holds this superstition above all other
superstitions she believes in because when she was twelve she saw an
owl in her yard at some point in the evening and some weeks later her
mother became deathly ill. One year after that it is said that an owl
was seen on their rooftop and some months later her father passed
away.
Where learned: GREECE
Keyword(s): MYSTERIOUS ; unexplained
| Subject headings: | Observation Favorites BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001946CA
From the ages when the gods were said to live on Mt. Olympus, the
Greeks believed the owl to be the symbol of wisdom and the foreshadow
of death.
Where learned: GREECE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001946CA
Death Owl
There's an old belief down South that when a person has been
gravely ill for a period of time or near death, an owl would come
to call for their spirit. The owl would perch on the ill person's
porch, window sill, or tree near the person's home. Exactly one
day later, the ill person would die. The owl was called a squench
Owl, because of the sound that he made during his visit. He would
appear in the late evening. No one knew where he came from or when
he left. People would try to run the owl away to keep the person
from dying and the owl from taking their love one's spirit, but the
owl would only move to another spot and continue to make squenching
sounds and leave like he came. The people were very afraid of this
owl because he brought death.
Submitter comment:
My friend was really adamant about this story because she had
exactly experienced this during her years growing up in Rome,
Georgia.
Where learned: Rome, Georgia
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 00001944CA
A bird in your house means death will hit your family, or
someone close to you may die.
Where learned: LOUISIANA ; New Orleans
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
Unknown
Always burn your hair when you cut it, because if a bird gets
ahold to it, you will have bad luck.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1990
Crow on a fence,
Rain will go hence.
Crow on the ground,
Rain will come down.
Submitter comment:
My ex-mother-in-law lived on a farm. She saw a crow in the
barnyard and repeated this poem to me.
James Callow comment:
Puckett, Ohio, no. 34342: "Crow on the ground, / Rain will
come down." -- Slovenian, 1959.
Puckett, Ohio, no. 34858: "Crow on the fence, / Rain will
go hence." -- German, 1961.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MOUNT PLEASANT
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00001970S
IF A ROOSTER CROWS AFTER DARK, THAT MEANS SOMEONE WILL DIE IN
YOUR FAMILY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
NEVER THROW YOUR HAIR AWAY. IF A BIRD USES IT TO BUILD HIS
NEST, YOU WILL HAVE HEADACHES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-00-1963
At Christmastime, whether you cut down a tree or buy one, if
you find a bird's nest in the tree, you will have good luck for the
coming year.
Submitter comment: I think this must be a Polish custom.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Mount Clemens
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Measure of time Year BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 00001920'S
IN ORDER TO HAVE GOOD LUCK WHILE OWNING A BUSINESS, BURY
THE NECK OF A CHICKEN IN THE FOUNDATION OF A NEW
BUILDING.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT ACTUALLY PRACTICED THIS WHEN HER HUSBAND OPENED
A BUSINESS SEVERAL YEARS AGO. SHE HEARD THIS FROM AN
OLD WOMAN WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD IN HER NATIVE TOWN IN
ROMANIA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Foundation rite Laying of cornerstone BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 11-08-1971
KILLING AN ALBATROSS IN OPEN SEASON IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-25-1969
IF AN OWL HOOTS IN THE DAYTIME, IT'S GOING TO RAIN.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 03-24-1971
WHEN BIRDS SQUAWK A GREAT DEAL AND FOR A PROLONGED
PERIOD, IT MEANS THAT RAIN WILL COME SHORTLY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 11-23-1970