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POPULAR BELIEF
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, YOU ARE GOING TO KISS A FOOL.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
POPULAR BELIEFS
IF YOUR EARS RING, SOMEONE IS THINKING ABOUT YOU.
IF A PORTION OF YOUR SKIRT HEM IS TURNED UP, YOUR BOYFRIEND
IS THINKING ABOUT YOU.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
POPULAR SAYING
YOU SHOULDN'T START ANYTHING NEW ON FRIDAY. IF YOU DO, YOU'LL
NEVER FINISH IT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
POPULAR SAYING
DON'T TAKE THE LAST TIDBIT ON THE PLATE OR YOU'LL BE AN OLD
MAID.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CUSTOM (CHARACTERISTIC OF A PEOPLE)
PUERTO RICAN MEN (PUERTORICANOS) ARE ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT
"MUY MACHO" (VERY MASCULINE). THEY MUST NEVER SHOW
WEAKNESS OF ANY KIND. FOR THIS REASON, YOU NEVER CAN BELIEVE
ONE WHEN HE GIVES YOU DIRECTIONS BECAUSE HE MUST NEVER LET
ON IF HE DOESN'T KNOW THE ANSWER. HE WILL GIVE YOU DIRECTIONS
INVARIABLY WHETHER THEY ARE CORRECT OR NOT. IT TOOK US MANY
WASTED GALLONS OF GASOLINE BEFORE WE WERE FINALLY TOLD BY A
PUERTO RICAN WOMAN FRIEND THAT IT WAS NO USE ASKING. THE
WOMEN DON'T DO THIS.
Submitter comment: COLLECTED BY OBSERVATION
Where learned: PUERTO RICO ; SAN JUAN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
FOLK BELIEF
IF DOGS DON'T LIKE YOU, YOU MUST BE A MEAN PERSON.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PRACTICE
IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU CAME INTO A ROOM TO GET, GO
BACK TO WHERE YOU STARTED AND COME IN AGAIN AND YOU WILL THINK
OF IT. IT WORKS FOR ME.
Submitter comment: THIS PROBABLY HAS TRUE ASSOCIATED VALUE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
FOLK CUSTOM
ALTHOUGH THE PUERTO RICO PEASANT (JIBARO) WALKS INTO THE SEA
DURING FESTICAL (AT MIDNITE ON THE SAINT'S DAY), HE WILL NOT
GO IN ANY OTHER TIME. HE CANNOT SWIM. THIS IS A PURPOSEFUL
OMISSION. IN THE PAST, MANY OF THEM MADE A GOOD PART OF THEIR
LIVING FISHING IN WATERS WHICH WERE OCCASIONALLY KNOWN TO BE
SHARK-INFESTED. THE THEORY WAS THAT IF YOU COULDN'T SWIM,
YOU WOULD DROWN QUICKLY IF YOU FELL IN. THEN YOU WOULDN'T
FEEL IT WHEN THE SHARK GOT YOU.
Where learned: PUERTO RICO ; HATO REY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 00-00-1961
A STAMP, PUT ON A LETTER UP-SIDE DOWN, MEANS YOU LOVE THE
PERSON YOU ARE SENDING THE LETTER TO.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 03-07-1969
IF YOU PUT RUBBING ALCOHOL ON INSIDE OF NEW SHOES, THEY WILL
STRETCH TO FIT YOUR FOOT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 06-14-1973
WHEN I WAS A (AN) UNDERGRADUATE AT MOREHEAD (KY.) STATE TEACHERS'
COLLEGE, NOW MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY, IN 1939 AND 1940,
GOLDFISH SWALLOWING BECAME A FAD AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. REPORTEDLY A BOY AT MOREHEAD SWALLOWED
TWENTY-FOUR LIVE GOLDFISH. HE WAS TOPPED BY A BOY AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, WHICH WAS REFERRED TO LOCALLY AS THE
COUNTRY CLUB OF THE SOUTH, WHO SWALLOWED FORTY-TWO. I AM SURE
NEITHER OF THESE BOYS HELD THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. I DID
NOT WITNESS THE SWALLOWING, NOR DID ANYONE ELSE THAT I KNEW
TO BE TRUTHFUL. THE NEWSPAPERS REPORTED SWALLOWINGS THROUGH-
OUT THE COUNTRY. AS FAR AS I KNOW, NO GIRLS EVER COMPETED IN
THE GOLDFISH SWALLOWING CONTESTS.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Fish PROSE NARRATIVE -- Man CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School BELIEF -- Custom |
DON'T MAKE DIVINITY CANDY ON RAINY DAYS, AS IT WILL FAIL
TO HARDEN.
Where learned: PARIS ; TENNESSEE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 06-15-1973
CAKE
DO NOT JUMP WHILE A CAKE IS IN THE OVEN, OR IT WILL FALL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 06-16-1973
SUPERSTITION
IF YOU TURN A STRAY CAT AWAY FROM YOUR DOOR, YOU TURN AWAY
GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 03-29-1972
SUPERSTITION
IF YOUR RIGHT EYE ITCHES, YOU WILL BE PLEASED; IF YOUR LEFT
EYE JUMPS, YOU WILL GET ANGRY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
IF YOU DREAM OF SNAKES, THE DEVIL IS AT YOU.
Where learned: PEABODY COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 04-14-1972
CUSTOM
ON NEW YEAR'S, COOK BLACK-EYED PEAS WITH A FIFTY CENT PIECE
AND TURNIP GREEN FOR GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: PEABODY COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 04-14-1972
CUSTOMS CONCERNING THE PLAYING OF PINBALL MACHINES
IT IS A COMMON PRACTICE TO CONTINUE PUTTING MONEY INTO THE
MACHINE AS LONG AS IT IS "JUMPING."
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom BELIEF -- P560 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN