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IF WISHES WERE HORSES BEGGARS WOULD RIDE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POOR POVERTY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
If you say a prayer to St. Anthony when you lose something,
he will help you to find it.
Submitter comment:
Mrs. Leisner really believes this to be true. Many times
as a young girl I witnessed my mother performing this
ritual, and even now we always know when she has lost
something when we hear her say "St. Anthony help me!"
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LEXINGTON
Keyword(s): intercession
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Conversions |
Date learned: 00001930S
My sister taught me to put my finger on a screw as we
drove over a set of railroad tracks. This was so you
could get any wish of your choice. The only condition
to this was that you had to be touching the metal
part of the screw.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Prayer SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00001977 ca
This is a dinner prayer my sister taught me, that our
family still uses today.
God, thank you for the food we eat.
God, thank you for the birds that sing.
God, thank you for everything.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00001975 CA
Balinese custom
Every fifteen days the moon appears. Everyone must go to the
temple to give an individual silent prayer.
Where learned: Bali ; Indonesia
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
Before you move into a new house you should have it
blessed. It is supposed to bring bad luck if you don't.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 01-00-1979
WHEN WEARING A NECKLACE, THE CLASP SOMETIMES WORKS ITS
WAY TO THE FRONT. GRAB THE CLASP AND TURN IT AROUND WHILE
MAKING A WISH. IF YOU DO NOT TELL WHAT THE WISH WAS,
IT WILL COME TRUE.
Submitter comment:
THIS SUPERSTITION IS WIDESPREAD. WHEN THE INFORMANT MOVED
TO DETROIT, SHE LEARNED THAT KIDS IN DETROIT BELIEVE THIS
TOO.
Where learned: KANSAS ; WHITE CITY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
When two people break a wish bone of either a chicken
or a turkey, the person who gets the larger end gets
to make a wish and it will come true.
Submitter comment:
Informant said that his family believed in this for
as long as he can remember because it was a
Thanksgiving Day tradition.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00001930S
If two people say the same thing at the same time
you should hook your little fingers and make a
wish.
Submitter comment:
Informant says she has been practicing this since
she was a little girl.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Simultaneity of speech
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Prayer SPEECH -- Gesture SPEECH -- Wishes Wants Desires Predictions |
Date learned: 00001950S
To give a religious gift to someone is to wish
death on them. My great grandmother fervently
believed this, but my grandmother is much more
skeptical.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00001940S
Camp Song, Girl Scouts
This song is used as a grace
before each meal at camp.
Hark to the chimes
Come bow your heads
We thank the Lord
For this good bread.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Camp Holly ; Holly
Date learned: 07-00-1983
Hawaiian Island Folklore
Find a lava rock. Take the rock and wrap it in a tea leaf and
set it down in front of the ocean. Make a wish. Your wish
will be granted in three days by the gods of the islands.
Submitter comment:
This is one of the folktales that Albert brought back with
him when he came back to the U.S. after his second honeymoon.
My father is good friends with this man and he told us the
story over dinner at our house. His mood was wishful and
mysterious when he was describing this folktale.
Where learned: Item was learned in the state of Hawaii
Keyword(s): lava, tea, ocean.
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00-00-1989
Island Folklore
On the Island Key of Islamorada, Florida buying a handcarved
wooden tiki mask and having it blessed by one of the island's
priests with holy water is said to bring luck for seven years,
then unfortunately trouble for seven years. Most people do not
bless their tiki masks.
Submitter comment:
As Mr. Woodenson was telling me this story he was in a serious
state of mind as if he was telling me to be very careful and
he left it at that.
Where learned: Key Islamorada
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Church BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Good luck |
The pelvic bone from a turkey must be saved
and put to dry for seven days. When it is dry
two people hold the two ends of the horseshoe
shaped bone and then pull. The one who gets
the middle part (a knob) gets their wish that was
wished before the pulling.
Where learned: NEW JERSEY ; Penns Grove
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 00001980S
There is a poem that you should say to
the first star that you see that goes:
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight.
I wish I may,
I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Then you make a wish and it should come true.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00001973CA
If you light a candle and pray to St Christopher, whatever
direction the candle flicker points to is the direction of a
lost item.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Use of Object |
Date learned: 00001970'S
Turn a piece of silver in your pocket upon seeing
a full moon & your wish will come true.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; JACKSON
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress Lower body and legs BELIEF -- Measure of quality Monetary systemMoneyWealth BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- P753 |
Date learned: 00001980S
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
For most it is available three times a day.
For others it is always a treat.
But if those others really pray, it will come
and make their hunger go away.
Answer: food
Submitter comment:
I learned this from a street lady (bum) in
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Knoxville
Keyword(s): FOOD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
May the rains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR
Keyword(s): caring, love
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00-00-1991