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TO DROP A KNIFE IS A SIGN A MAN IS COMING TO YOUR HOUSE.
Submitter comment: I HAVE OFTN HEARD HER EXPRESS THIS SUPERSTITION WHEN A
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation Food Drink -- Service Table furnishing and decoration Implement to handle food BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
IF YOU DROP A FORK, IS A SIGN THAT A WOMAN IS GOING TO YOUR HOUSE.
Submitter comment: I HAVE OFTEN HEARD HER EXPRESS THIS SUPERSTITION WHEN A FORK
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation Food Drink -- Service Table furnishing and decoration Implement to handle food BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
IF THE TAIL OF YOUR DRESS TURNS UP, IF YOU SPIT ON IT, YOU
WILL GET A NEW DRESS.
Submitter comment: MRS. REAVES TOLD ME THAT THIS WAS A COMMON SUPERSTITION
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
IF YOUR FOOT ITCHES, YOU WILL WALK ON NEW GROUND OR YOU WILL
GO TO THE CEMETERY.
Submitter comment: MRS. REAVES, MY MOTHER, TOLD ME THAT SHE STOPPED PAYING ANY
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching hands and feet |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
IF YOUR RIGHT EYE JUMPS, IT'S A SIGN YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
SOMETHING GOOD.
Submitter comment: SHE HEARD IT FROM HER GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Eye twitch |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
IF YOUR LEFT EYE JUMPS, IT'S A SIGN YOU'RE GOING TO GET SOME
MONEY, OR IT MAY BE A SIGN OF BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye BELIEF -- Bad luck Body parts and functions |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
IF A ROOSTER CROWS BEFORE MIDNIGHT, IT'S A SIGN OF DEATH.
Submitter comment: MRS. REAVES HEARD THIS WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL IN FORT SMITH.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED ; FORT SMITH ; ARKANSAS, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 08-08-1968
IF THE PICTURE OF A DEAD PERSON FALLS OFF THE WALL, IT'S A SIGN
OF DEATH. AT UNCLE'S FUNERAL, HIS SITER'S PICTURE FELL OFF
THE WALL, AND SHE HAD BEEN DEAD FOR A LONG TIME, BUT NOBOBY
DIED.
Submitter comment: SHE HEARD THIS FROM HER GRANDMOTHER AS A GIRL IN FORT SMITH.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED ; FORT SMITH ; ARKANSAS, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 08-08-1968
ALWAYS HAVE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET ON NEW YEAR'S DAY OR YOU
WILL BE POOR ALL YEAR.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
THE GROOMSMAN THAT CATCHES THE GARTER IS THE NEXT TO BE
MARRIED.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Marriage Bouquet |
Date learned: 07-05-1972
IF IT RAINS ON THE WEDDING DAY, THE MARRIAGE WILL BE UNHAPPY
AND LAST ONLY A SHORT TIME.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Marriage Superstition about good weather BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 04-08-1969
OLD PEOPLE USED TO SAY THAT WHEN YOU HEARD THE FIRST DOVE YOU
HEARD THAT YEAR, IF YOU WERE STANDING UP YOU WOULD BE IN GOOD
HEALTH ALL YEAR, BUT IF YOU WERE SITTING DOWN, YOU WOULD BE
IN BAD HEALTH ALL YEAR.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 08-02-1968
THE NIGHT THAT UNCLE TROY DIED, MAMA AND PAPA AND SOME OTHERS
SETTING UP WITH UNCLE TROY HEARD SOME DOGS FIGHTING IN THE
HALL. PAPA WENT TO THE DOOR AND KICKED AT THE DOGS, BUT
NOTHING WAS THERE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 07-27-1968
IF KEROSENE LAMPS THAT ARE FULL GO OUT, SOMEONE DIES. THE NIGHT
VIRGINIA ANN WAS BORN BOTH KEROSENE LAMPS WENT OUT. EVERYONE
THOUGHT VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIA ANN WOULD DIE, BUT FOURTEEN
DAYS LATER MAMA AND ERNEST DIED.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number P686.1.14 |
Date learned: 07-23-1968
A PICTURE THAT FALLS OFF THE WALL IS A SIGN OF DEATH.
Submitter comment: MY SISTER-IN-LAW BELIEVES THIS AND SAYS THAT THE WEEK BEFORE
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 08-02-1968
MAMA HAD GOT IN THE CLOTHES AND SHE LOOKED OUT AND SHE THOUGHT
SHE SAW SOMETHING SHE HAD DROPPED. SHE WENT TO PICK IT UP
AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE. THAT NIGHT GRANDPA CHAPMAN
PASSED AWAY.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 07-23-1968
WHEN WE LIVED AT THE TRIBBLE PLACE, WE COULDN'T KEEP THE FRONT
DOOR LOCKED. IT WOULD CLICK AND COME OPEN. THE CHAIRS,
CANE-BOTTOMED CHAIRS, WOULD TURN OVER. MOSTLY THEY WERE THE
CHAIRS AROUND THE TABLE. AT NIGHT THE COVER WOULD BE PULLED
OFF THE BEDS. MY SISTER DIDN'T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED UNTIL
SHE SPENT THE NIGHT WITH US. DURING THE NIGHT SHE WAS
AWAKENED BY THE COVER BEING PULLED OFF HER. ONE NIGHT
SOMETHING THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MIRROR BROKE, AWOKE US. WE GOT
UP AND COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING. ANOTHER NIGHT A LITTLE
ROUND BALL OF LIGHT WENT AROUND THE BED AND THEN WENT UP THE
STAIRS AND DISAPPEARED. THIS WAS ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE
ERNEST, MY BROTHER, TOOK SICK. A FEW NIGHTS LATER, I AWOKE
TO HEAR MY MOTHER CALLING, "MATTIE MAE" THREE TIMES. IT
SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS AT THE WINDOW AND I WENT OUT TO LOOK
FOR HER. NO ONE WAS THERE, BUT ABOUT A WEEK LATER ERNEST
AND MAMA BOTH PASSED AWAY.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 07-23-1968
IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD LUCK TO MOCK A DOVE. IF YOU DO,
YOUR BROTHER WILL DIE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 07-20-1968
THE WAY I REMEMBER IT, IS THAT IF YOU HEARD YOUR FIRST DOVE
IN THE SPRING WHILE YOU WERE WALKING UPGRADE, YOUR FINANCES
WOULD GO UP ALL YEAR; IF YOU HEARD IT WHILE WALKING DOWNGRADE,
YOUR FINANCES WOULD GO DOWN ALL YEAR.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- P663 |
Date learned: 07-20-1968
IF, WHEN PLANTING CORN, YOU MISSED A ROW (DRILL STOPPED UP) A
MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WOULD DIE THAT YEAR.
OF COURSE, THERE'S NOTHING TO IT, BUT I'VE KNOWN PEOPLE
WHO BELIEVED THIS.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 07-20-1968