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SUPERSTITION
IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY PUT ON A PIECE OF CLOTHING BACKWARDS WHEN
YOU GET DRESSED, YOU VILL HAVE GOOD LUCK THE REST OF THE DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Good luck P881.21 |
Date learned: CA00001970
SUPERSTITION
IF YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE AND THEN HAVE TO GO BACK FOR SOMETHING
YOU SHOULD SIT DOWN FOR A WHILE OR SOMETHING WILL GO WRONG.
Submitter comment: THIS WAS LEARNED BY MY INFORMANT IN POLAND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 02-07-1979
BELIEF
IF SOMEONE IS A GOOD STORY TELLER AND EXAGGERATOR, YOU SAY THEY
HAVE KISSED THE BLARNEY STONE.
Submitter comment: THE BLARNEY STONE IS PART OF THE BLARNEY CASTLE IN IRELAND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
IN NEW ORLEANS CERTAIN HOUSES WERE CONSIDERED HAUNTED. THE
OCCUPANTS OF THE HOUSES SAID THE SPIRITS CAME OUT AT NIGHT. SOME
OF THE PEOPLE SWORE THEIR CHILDREN WOULD WAKE UP WITH MARKS ON
THEM THAT WERE NOT ON THEM THE DAY BEFORE. THE PEOPLE CLAIMED
THEY COULD FEEL THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITS IN THEIR HOMES. THEY
SAID TO GET RID OF THE GHOSTS, YOU HAD TO USE PROFANITY AND THE
GHOSTS WOULD LEAVE FOR AWHILE.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A TRUE STORY. THE PREVIOUS OWNERS OF THE HOUSE WERE A
MAN, HIS WIFE AND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. BOTH MEN DIED IN THE HOUSE
AND WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE GHOSTS IN THE HOUSE. MY GRANDMOTHER
LIVED ACROSS THE STREET FROM THIS HAUNTED HOUSE. ONE DAY SHE SAW
ONE MAN COME OUT THE SIDE DOOR. AS HE WALKED TOWARD THE FRONT OF
THE HOUSE SHE NO LONGER SAW HIM BUT SAW A BLACK CAT INSTEAD. MY
GRANDMOTHER SWEARS THAT THIS REALLY HAPPENED.
SWEARING
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 01-00-1979
MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO TELL THE STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL WHO WAS
INVITED TO A BALL ON A DRAWBRIDGE IN FRANCE. WHEN THE GIRL
AWAKENED THE MORNING OF THE DANCE, HER MOTHER TOLD HER OF A DREAM
SHE HAD THE NIGHT BEFORE THAT SOMETHING TERRIBLE WAS GOING TO
HAPPEN AT THE PARTY. IN SPITE OF HER MOTHER'S PLEAS, TO STAY
HOME, THE GIRL WENT TO THE DANCE. THAT NIGHT AT THE PARTY THE
BRIDGE HAPPENED TO OPEN AND ALL THE PEOPLE FELL INTO THE WATER AND
DROWNED.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
DREAM AS OMEN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Dreams BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
AFTER A SNEEZE, IF YOU CAN CATCH A HAIR ON YOUR CHEST AND TIE IT
IN A KNOT BEFORE IT GOES BACK IN, YOU WILL HAVE A HAIRY CHEST.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 04-10-1979
PROVERB
SING AT THE DINNER TABLE AND YOU WILL MARRY A CRAZY MAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
Keyword(s): FUNCTION.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Measure of time |
Date learned: 01-00-1979
UNKNOWN
A WOMAN THAT ARGUES A LOT WILL NEVER MARRY. THIS IS TOLD SO TO SCARE
THE ARGUING YOUNG GIRLS.
Where learned: PUERTO RICO
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
IF YOU STEP ON A CRACK YOU'LL BREAK THE DEVIL'S DISHES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLEASANT RIDGE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
THE DEVIL'S HOLE ROAD LEGEND.
" THE AREA IN WHICH I LIVE USED TO BE ALL SWAMPY. THE INDIANS
BELIEVED THAT WHEN AN INDIAN OR WHITE MAN WENT INTO THE AREA AND DID
NOT RETURN THAT THE DEVIL HAD CAPTURED HIM. SO THAT IS HOW DEVIL'S
HOLE ROAD GOT ITS NAME. "
Where learned: OHIO ; 7187 DEVILS HOLE RD ; PEMBERVILLE
Keyword(s): CAPTURED BY DEVIL
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
HAUNTED HOUSE
IN SANTA DOMINGO THERE IS A HOUSE IN WHICH THERE ARE ALL
KINDS OF WEIRD NOISES. A PRIEST USUALLY SAYS MASS IN THE
HOUSE SO THAT THE EVIL SPIRITS WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 10-24-1968
SUPERSTITION
IF A GIRL SINGS AT THE TABLE SHE WILL HAVE A CRAZY HUSBAND.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
IF YOU WISH SOMETHING GOOD ON THE THIRD SNEEZE, THE WISH WILL
COME TRUE.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; MINDEN
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple Favorites BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00-00-1925
LEGEND
THERE IS A LEGEND THAT HIDDEN IN THE CATAFALQUE, WHICH IS A GOOD
LOOKING FAKE CASKET USED IN FUNERAL
MEMORIAL MASSES YEARS AGO, THERE WAS
A REAL DEAD PERSON WHO HAD NO PLACE TO BE BURIED BECAUSE HE AND HIS
FAMILY WERE TOO POOR TO BUY A COFFIN OR A BURIAL PLACE AND SO IT WAS
LEFT TO THE CHURCH TO KEEP HIS CASKET
AND HONOR HIM WITH MASS UPON MASS
UNTIL THE CASKET COULD BE GIVEN A DECENT BURIAL.
IT TURNS OUT THAT THE CASKET WAS NEVER GIVEN A DECENT BURIAL AND THA
IT WAS USED IN THE CHURCH FOR ALMOST
FORTY FIVE YEARS BEFORE
SOMEONE FINALLY STOLE IT.
Submitter comment:
THE CASKET, IN REAL LIFE WAS NOT REALLY STOLEN, BUT NO LONGER
USED BECAUSE THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL CHANGED THE LITURGY FOR THE
DEAD. NOR WAS THERE EVER A DEAD BODY IN IT. IN FACT, ONCE THE PRIES
OPENED IT UP SO WE COULD SEE AND IT WAS WITNESSED BY A GROUP OF US
TO BE COMPLETELY EMPTY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Church BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
SUPERSTITION
IN MY GRADE SCHOOL, OUR LADY QUEEN OF APOSTLES, THE STUDENTS BELIEVE
THAT A BELL RUNG BY THE SISTER SUPERIOR INDICATED THAT THE SCHOOL WA SAFE
TO ENTER. THE BELL WAS RUNG AT FIRE DRILLS, AFTER RECESS AND AT MANY OTHER
TIMES. STUDENTS DID NOT HEED THE BELL IF IT WAS NOT RUNG BY THE SISTER
SUPERIOR. THE BELIEF PERSISTED EVEN TO MY BROTHER'S TIME AND THOUGH A
DIFFERENT BELL IS RUNG THESE DAYS BY A DIFFERENT SISTER SUPERIOR, IT IS
NEVERTHELESS THE SAME BELIEF. STUDENTS ONLY LISTEN T A CERTAIN BELL RUNG
BY A CERTAIN PERSON. SOME STUDENTS WENT SO FAR AS TO CLAIM THAT THE BELL
HAD MIRACULOUS POWERS IN AND OF ITSELF. THEY BELIEVED THAT THE MERE PRESENCE
OF THE BELL CONNOTED SAFETY AND THAT IT COULD BE USED TO WARD OFF EVIL. HENCE,
IT WAS SAID THAT THE SISTER SUPERIOR HAD LIVED FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS MERELY
BECAUSE SHE KEPT THAT BELL WITH HER ALL HER LIFE. SOME EVEN SAID THAT IT WAS
ON THE DAY THAT SHE DIED, THAT THE BELL WAS FOUND MISSING. IT IS BELIEVED THAT
SHE TOOK THE BELL WITH HER TO THE GRAVE TO PROTECT HERSELF FROM THE DEVIL AND
TO TRAVEL SAFELY TO THE OTHER WORLD WHERE SHE WOULD EMBRACE ETERNAL LIFE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- School |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
SUPERSTITION
MY GREAT AUNT USED TO TELL
THE STORY OF AN OLD STATUE OF THE SACRED HEART
WHICH WAS BURNED AND PARTIALLY DESTROYED IN FRANCE BY THE SOLDIERS O
THE UNITED STATES WHO ACCIDENTALLY RUINED IT DURING WORLD WAR TWO.
MY AUNT INSISTED THAT THE STATUE WAS A BAD OMEN FOR THE UNITED STATE
AND THAT CALAMITY WAS CERTAIN UNLESS AMENDS WERE MADE IMMEDIATELY
SENT WORD TO THE CLOISTERED NUNS TO BEG FOR EARNEST AND SINCERE
REPARATION LEST THE UNITED STATES SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES IN THE WAR
FOR ITS HEEDLESS AND CARELESSS DESTRUCTION. MY AUNT IMMEDIATELY
TOLD ME THAT THE STATUE TALKED TO SEVERAL
PEOPLE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,
THE WORDS ON THE STATUE WERE BLOTTED OUT
BY ITS PARTIAL DESTRUCTION, BUT MY AUNT INSISTED THAT THE STATUE
WOULD TELL PIOUS PEOPLE THIS MESSAGE: "I HAVE NO ARMS BUT YOURS".
IT WAS SAID TO BE A DIVINE INDICATION THAT EACH PERSON WAS TO SHARE
IN THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF WAR AND THAT NOBODY, NO MATTER HOW
RELIGIOUS ONE CLAIMED TO BE
WAS EXEMPT FROM IT. MY AUNT ALSO SAID THAT
THE STATUE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN AFTER THE WAR ENDED BUT THAT IT WOULD
RETURN DURING WORLD WAR THREE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED ITEM WHILE IN CANADA ON TOUR OF MARIAN SHRINES.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Church |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
SUPERSTITION
THERE IS THE BELIEF IN QUEBEC, CANADA, THAT THE STATUE ON THE CHURCH
OF STE. ANNE DE BEAUPRE IS INCAPABLE OF BURNING DESPITE THE
FACT THAT IT IS MADE UP OF WOOD AND WOOD IS EASILY BURNED.
THIS IS SAID
TO BE A MIRACULOUS POWER AND THAT NOT EVEN THE FIERY POWERS OF SATAN
HIMSELF COULD DESTROY, HURT OR MUTILATE THIS HOLY STATUE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED ITEM WHILE IN CANADA ON TOUR OF MARIAN SHRINES.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Wood Gourd BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Church |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
SUPERSTITION
IN CANADA, IT IS BELIEVED TO BE A SIGN OF GOOD LUCK IF A PERSON
PASSES YOU DRIVING AN AUTOMOBILE WITH A STATUE OF ST. JOSEPH
ON THE DASHBOARD. THIS COULD MEAN THAT YOU WOULD INHERIT OR WIN
A LOT OF MONEY AND THAT SUCCESS WOULD SURELY BE YOURS.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED ITEM WHILE IN CANADA ON TOUR OF MARIAN SHRINES.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
FOLK TALE
IN OUR LADY QUEEN OF APOSTLES CHURCH IN HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN, THERE
IS A BELIEF THAT THE
CHURCH WAS ONCE INHABITED BY GHOSTS OF THE FORMER
PASTOR WHO BUILT THE HUGE CHURCH. IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE
WHO CAME TO WORSHIP THERE AND ALSO TO KEEP THE CHURCH
FREE FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE INFECTION OF SIN, THE NEW PASTOR PUT
UP GARGOYLES AROUND THE MAIN ALTAR.
THIS WAS SAID TO BE THE ONLY THING
THAT COULD DRIVE OUT THE MEMORY
OF THE PREVIOUS EVIL PASTOR AND THE BAD
FORCES THAT WERE KNOWN TO ENTER THE BUILDING
WHERE HE LIVED. IT WAS SAID
THAT THE HOUSE OF SATAN COULD ONCE AGAIN BECOME THE HOUSE OF GOD
HIMSELF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Church |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
FOLK TALE
MY GREAT AUNT BELIEVED AND TOLD THE STORY THAT IF YOU DID NOT TAKE
PICTURES OF THE DEAD CORPSE OF YOUR RELATIVES THEY WOULD COME BACK T
HAUNT YOU.
Submitter comment:
SHE TOLD THIS BECAUSE NOBODY EVER WANTED TO TAKE THE PICTRUES OF HER
THREE DEAD SISTERS DURING THEIR FUNERALS.
Where learned: HAMTRAMCK
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION ; FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1979