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NEVER TAKE UP ASHES AFTER DARK OR ILL FORTUNE WILL BEFALL YOU.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IT IS BAD LUCK TO TAKE ASHES OUT ON FRIDAY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IT IS BAD LUCK TO CUT ANYTHING WITH SCISSORS ON SUNDAY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IF A PERSON PARTICIPATES IN THREE WEDDING CEREMONIES DURING
A ONE-YEAR PERIOD, THE NEXT CEREMONY WILL BE HIS OR HER OWN
WEDDING.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; BECKLEY
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF ONE EVERY (SIC) DOES ANY SEWING ON SUNDAY, EVEN IF THE SEWING
IS NECESSARY MENDING, THE PERSON WILL BE PLAQUED WITH BAD LUCK
FROM THAT DAY ON.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): PLAGUED?
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Measure of time Working BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT'S BAD LUCK TO BEGIN ANYTHING NEW ON FRIDAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; BRENTWOOD
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 07-05-1973
DON'T START ANY JOB SUCH AS HOUSECLEANING OR SEWING ON FRIDAY
IF YOU CANNOT FINISH IT THAT DAY. IF YOU DON'T FINISH IT, THE
PERSON YOU'RE DOING IT FOR WILL DIE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Date learned: 06-18-1973
CUT FINGERNAILS ON FRIDAY,
CUT THEM FOR SORROW,
CUT THEM ON SATURDAY,
SWEETHEART TOMORROW.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PETERSBURG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 06-16-1973
EVERY STITCH YOU SEW ON SUNDAY YOU'LL HAVE TO PICK OUT WITH
YOUR NOSE WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN.
Submitter comment: MRS. HUNT SAID THAT HER GRANDMOTHER SAID THAT HER MOTHER
Where learned: PARIS ; TENNESSEE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Nose BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 06-20-1970
IT'S BAD LUCK TO START A JOB ON FRIDAY.
Where learned: PARIS ; TENNESSEE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 06-19-1970
IT IS BAD LUCK TO SWEEP AT NIGHT (SWEEP AWAY ALL YOU(R) GOOD LUCK.
IN THE OLD DAYS PEOPLE PLAYED FIREWORKS FOR THE MOSLEM HOLIDAYS,
AND THESE WERE PLAYED AT NIGHT. IF THEY SWEPT THEIR YARD IT
MEANT THAT THE PAPER FROM THE FIREWORKS WOULD DISAPPEAR, AND
THE PERSON COULD NOT BOAST TO HIS NEIGHBORS THAT HE HAD BOUGHT
SO MANY FIREWORKS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; JAVA ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Broom Sweeping BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
IF A MOCKING BIRD WAKES YOU UP AT NIGHT, IT MEANS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; DOYLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 07-27-1968
YOU CRY A TEAR FOR EVERY STITCH YOU SEW ON SUNDAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Measure of time Working BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs |
Date learned: 06-29-1970
IF IT STARTS RAINING BEFORE SEVEN IT WILL END BEFORE ELEVEN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through A time segment or a direction BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
EVERYTIME IT'S FRIDAY THE 13TH MY MOTHER ALWAYS HAS GOOD LUCK,
NEVER BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Good luck Friday the Thirteenth |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
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Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
NEVER LET A COLORED WOMAN IN YOUR HOUSE ON MONDAY MORNING, OR
YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK ALL WEEK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): SEXISM
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1 BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 04-08-1969
THY USED TO SAY THAT IF YOU WOULD CUT OFF YOUR FINGERNAILS
THE FIRST MONDAY IN THE MONTH, YOU WOULD GET A PRESENT
BEFORE THE MONTH WAS GONE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 07-20-1968
SOME PEOPLE THINK IT IS BAD LUCK TO CUT YOUR FINGERNAILS ON
FRIDAY.
Where learned: MISSOURI ; PUXICO
Date learned: 07-28-1968
SILLY LAUGHING IN THE MORNING MEANS YOU'LL BE CRYING BEFORE
BEDTIME.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Measure of time Sleeping |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NEVER GET A HAIR CUT ON FRIDAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: 08-00-1968