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SUPERSTITION

IF YOU DREAM ABOUT TEETH SOMETHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU.

Where learned: DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Dreams Bad luck

Date learned: 00-00-1965

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SUPERSTITION

IF A CAT JUMPS ON A PREGNANT WOMAN'S LAP,
THE CHILD WILL BE MARKED BY THE CAT.

Submitter comment: MY MOTHER TOLD ME THIS IS WHY I HAVE A KITTEN AS A BIRTHMARK.

Where learned: DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Mammal
BELIEF -- Birth

Date learned: 00-00-1965

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SUPERSTITION

IF YOUR LEFT HAND ITCHES YOU'LL GET SOME MONEY.

Where learned: DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching hands and feet

Date learned: 00-00-1965

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SUPERSTITION

IF YOUR RIGHT HAND ITCHES YOU'LL RECEIVE A LETTER.

Where learned: DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching hands and feet

Date learned: 00-00-1965

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SUPERSTITION

IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES A STRANGER IS COMING TO VISIT.

Where learned: DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank
BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose

Date learned: 00-00-1965

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SUPERSTITION

IF YOUR LEFT EYE ITCHES SOMEBODY IS GOING TO MAKE YOU MAD.

Where learned: DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching eye

Date learned: 00-00-1965

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DREAMS

IF YOU DREAM OF YOUR TEETH FALLING OUT, THAT IS A SIGN THAT YOU
WILL HEAR OF A DEATH OF A CLOSE FRIEND.

Where learned: DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial
BELIEF -- Dreams Foretelling a death

Date learned: 00-00-1969

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SUPERSTITION

THERE IS A BELIEF IN CANADA THAT IN A CERTAIN SHRINE OF ST. JOSEPH
CALLED "ST. JOSEPH DU MONT ROYALE", THERE
IS A HEART OF A PIOUS PRIEST
NAMED BROTHER ANDRE WHICH IS STILL BEATING IN A COVERED JAR SO AS NO
TO ALARM THE FAITHFUL PILGRIMS WHO FLOCK TO THE SHRINE FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD. I, MYSELF, SAW THIS JAR WHICH WAS INDEED COVERE
AND THOUGH I DID NOT SEE THE HEART BEATING,
I ONCE AGAIN HEARD THE STORY
REPEATED BY THE PIOUS PEOPLE ON OUR PILGRIMAGE WHO SAID THAT THE POP
HIMSELF WITNESSED THE HEART BEATING
FOR LOVE OF CHRIST AND THAT OUR LOVE
FOR CHRIST OUGHT TO IMITATE THIS DIVINE LOVE
THAT JESUS SHOWED FOR US ON
THE ALTAR OF THE CROSS AND THAT BROTHER ANDRE HAS SO CAREFULLY TRIED
TO IMITATE WITH THE GREATEST DEGREE OF PERFECTION.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED ITEM WHILE IN CANADA ON TOUR OF MARIAN SHRINES.

Where learned: DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church
BELIEF -- Religious hero
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Church

Date learned: 00-00-1979

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SUPERSTITION

IT IS BELIEVED IN QUEBEC, CANADA, AT THE SHRINE OF STE. ANNE
DE BEAUPRE THAT IF ONE TOUCHES THE BONE ON DISPLAY AS A PILGRIM, ONE
WOULD RECEIVE AN ETERNAL REWARD IN HEAVEN. IF ONE WAS SINGLE AND
WANTED TO RECEIVE STE. ANNE'S BLESSING, ONE COULD TOUCH THE RELIC
AND FIND A SPOUSE. IF
ONE WAS MARRIED, ONE WOULD HAVE A LONG AND HAPPY MARRIAGE AND
THE HUSBAND WOULD BE VERY PROSPEROUS. IF ONE WAS PIOUS,
ONE WOULD RECEIVE THE GIFT OF A VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OR
RELIGIOUS LIFE.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED ITEM WHILE IN CANADA ON TOUR OF MARIAN SHRINES.

Where learned: DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Church
BELIEF -- Marriage
BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial

Date learned: 00-00-1979

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SUPERSTITION

IT WAS BELIEVED BY MY GREAT AUNT
THAT IF ONE DID NOT RECITE THE LITANY OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ON ALL HER FEASTDAYS, ONE WOULD NEVER SEE HEAVEN
AND ONE WOULD HAVE DISEASES OF THE FEET FOR THE REST OF ONE,S LIFE.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED ITEM WHILE IN CANADA ON TOUR OF MARIAN SHRINES.

Where learned: DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- February 2 Candlemas Groundhog Day
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- March 25
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May 31
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- July 2
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- August 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- August 22
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- September 8
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- September 12
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F100
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F101
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F101
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F112
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F120
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F822
BELIEF -- Religious hero
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial
BELIEF -- Prayer
BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness

Date learned: 00-00-1979

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MIRACLE IN ROME

IN A CATHEDRAL IN ROME THERE WAS A PRIEST, WHO WAS NOT A FIRM
BELIEVER SAYING MASS. WHEN HE SPLIT THE HOST SOME BLOOD SPILLED
FROM IT ON TO THE CORPOREAL ON THE ALTAR. EVERY YEAR ON GOOD FRIDAY
THE BLOOD LIQUIFIES.

Where learned: HOME ; DETROIT, ASSUMED

Subject headings: 663 Good Friday
Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero
BELIEF -- Body part Senses

Date learned: 11-23-1968

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BIRTH MARKS

IF AN EXPECTANT MOTHER CRAVES STAWBERRIES AND DOESN'T GET THEM,
THE CHILD WILL BE BORN WITH "STRAWBERRY MARKS."

Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED

Keyword(s): EATING SUPERSTITION

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth
BELIEF -- P244 P244.6
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Plant

Date learned: 03-00-1970

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BELIEF

IF DURING PREGNANCY A WOMAN HAS HEARTBURN CONSTANTLY, THEN THE BABY
WILL BE BORN WITH A LOT OF HAIR. IF THE WOMAN EXPERIENCES NO
HEARTBURN THEN THE BABY WILL BE BORN BALD.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME ; 16700 GREYDALE

Keyword(s): PREDICTION SUPERSTITION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Birth

Date learned: 03-00-1971

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CUSTOM

WHEN A BABY IS JUST BORN, CUT A SMALL PIECE OF THE UMBILICAL CORD
AND SAVE THIS, THIS WILL BRING THE BABY GOOD LUCK.

Submitter comment: THIS IS DONE A GREAT DEAL IN LEBANON.

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; TV STUDIO ; TOLD AT

Keyword(s): CHARMS

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Good luck

Date learned: 09-24-1970

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PROVERB

IF YOU HAVE COLD HANDS, YOU HAVE A WARM HEART.

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME

James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; TEMPERATURE

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 03-17-1970

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ON KISSING

IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES YOU'RE GOING TO KISS A FOOL.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS PROVERB FROM A FRIEND.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; YPSILANTI

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Dreams P841.72
SPEECH -- Gesture
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 10-13-1967

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TRADITION

THE BUDDHIST NUNS OF MALAYSIA FOR THEIR INITIATION SHAVE THEIR
HEADS, THEN WITH LONG INCENSE STICKS THEY BURN LITTLE HOLES IN A
LINE DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR HEADS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero

Date learned: 11-00-1978

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IF YOU HANG AROUND SOMEONE WHO SEES GHOSTS THEN YOU WILL BE
ABLE TO LOOK OVER THEIR LEFT SHOULDER AND SEE THEM ALSO

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses

Date learned: 10-00-1979

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IF SOMEONE DRAWS SYMBOLS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND WITH THEIR INDEX
FINGER THEY WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
BELIEF -- Body part Senses
SPEECH -- Gesture

Date learned: 10-00-1979

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BLISTERS ON THE LIP MEANS ONE HAS TOLD A LIE

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): SYMBOLS

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses
BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 10-00-1979

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