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Unlucky Opals
It is unlucky to wear opals, unless you were born
in October.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F100 BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Measure of time Month BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00001972CA
STATUES AND FIGURINES OF ELEPHANTS WITH THEIR TRUNKS UP
IN THE AIR ARE A GOOD LUCK CHARM. ELEPHANTS WITH THEIR TRUNKS
DOWN ARE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
James Callow Keyword(s): DIRECTION ; POSITION
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00001976CA
FIRST FOOTIN' WAS THE NAME GIVEN TO THE TRADITIONAL NEW
YEAR'S DAY PRACTICE TO ONLY ALLOW A DARK-HAIRED PERSON
TO BE THE FIRST TO STEP FOOT THROUGH YOUR DOOR ON NEW
YEAR'S DAY. IF A LIGHT-HAIRED PERSON WOULD COME TO THE
DOOR FIRST, THEY WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO ENTER FOR FEAR
THEY WOULD BRING BAD LUCK FOR THE NEW YEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's BELIEF -- Measure of time Year BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1935
NEVER PUT A HAT OR A SHOE ON YOUR BED FOR IT WILL BRING
YOU BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): UNNATURAL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1935
NEVER REPLACE YOUR OLD CALENDAR WITH THE ONE FOR THE
NEW YEAR UNTIL THE SECOND DAY OF JANUARY OR YOU WILL
BRING BAD LUCK FOR THE NEW YEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- 39815 BELIEF -- Measure of time Year BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1935
NEVER HAVE A TOOTH PULLED WHEN THE MOON IS IN THE SIGN
OF THE HEAD OR BAD WILL COME OF IT.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS TOLD TO ME BY MY GRANDMOTHER, WHO FOLLOWS THE
MOON'S CYCLE FOR A NUMBER OF THINGS. THE SIGNS OF THE
ZODIAC EACH CORRESPOND TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE BODY,
THE HEAD BEING THE SIGN OF CAPRICORN, THE RAM.
Where learned: VIRGINIA ; SPLASHDAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1930
Wearing your wedding ring the night before your wedding can
prove disastrous on your wedding day, because you have
jinxed yourself. This only applies to the individual who
wears the ring. Bad luck and embarrassment will come upon
the wedding day.
Submitter comment:
This was the advice given to my father by his father a
couple days before my fathers wedding.
Keyword(s): JEWELRY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
Find a penny and pick it up and all day long you'll have
bad luck. Throw a penny on the ground and all day long you'll
have good luck.
Submitter comment:
An Italian friend of mine told me this belief during my Senior
year of high school. I laughed.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Chance, toss
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1987
Wearing a vibrant color such as red, yellow or pink on Good
Friday is setting yourself up for bad encounters all
throughout the day.
Submitter comment:
Bright colors represent happy times and these colors would
hardly be appropriate to be worn on Good Friday.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Clothes, Jacket.
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1989
If you feel pain in your right leg this means that something
bad is about to happen to you.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Body, Hurt
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1985
Washing your clothes after the sun sets will bring good luck
the next day. Washing your clothes during the day will bring
bad luck on the following day, but only if those same clothes
are worn.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Dusk, Night
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Measure of time Working BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1984
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
Continuous lying will bring nothing but bad luck to you and to
anybody who is close to you.
Submitter comment:
My father told me this when I was very young and lied about
anything. I learned my lesson.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Untrustworthy, Dishonest
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1984
The phrase "knock on wood" originates from Ireland
in a time when people believed in fairies, trolls
and gnomes. It was believed that gnomes resided in
anything wooden and that they were cruel and
mischievous. When a person spoke of good times or good things
then they must knock on the wood to make sure that
the gnomes didn't hear them or to scare them away.
They believed that the gnomes would bring bad luck
on the optimist who spoke.
Submitter comment:
The informant heard this from her grandfather whose
father was from Ireland.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Black Kettle
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Bad luck SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00001970S
If you find a penny and the front is facing
upwards then it will bring you good luck.
If the back is facing upwards then it will
bring you bad luck.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of quality Monetary systemMoneyWealth BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00001970S
It is considered unlucky to let a candle burn
to the end.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00001970S
It is bad luck to let your tears fall on the face of the dead.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 48221
James Callow Keyword(s): Coffin ; Corpse ; Crying taboo ; Tabu = taboo
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
Whatever door you enter from that is the same door you must
exit through so you don't leave any bad luck behind.
Where learned: CANADA ; ONTARIO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1929
Sixty years ago in Ireland, children, at their
first glimpse of a full moon, were taught, in
order to escape bad luck or some dire calamity, to
use the following invocation:
"I see the moon, and the moon sees me.
God bless the moon, and God bless Me."
Submitter comment: My grandmother taught me this when I was little.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR
Date learned: 00001970'S
Whenever my parents went on vacation they wouldn't return until
the day before they were due back to work. They felt that if
they returned early they would have bad luck on their next
vacation.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1974