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I HEARD THAT IF YOU CRACK YOUR KNUCKLES YOU WILL
HAVE ARTHRITIS WHEN YOU GET OLDER.
Submitter comment: SEE SQ830861-22 FOR A DIFFERENT VERSION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00001979CA
EAT A LOT OF CARROTS WHEN
EXPECTING, YOUR BABY WILL
HAVE THICK HAIR AND GOOD EYES.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS TOLD TO JEAN BY HER SISTER
IN-LAW A LONG TIME AGO, SHE TOLD
THIS TO EVERYONE. JEAN'S SISTER
IN-LAW'S CHILDREN HAD NO HAIR AND
EACH ONE WEARS GLASSES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001970S
IF YOU SUCK YOUR THUMB IT WILL FALL OFF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK ; JACK AND JILL NURSERY SCHOOL
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1985
IF YOU DON'T CHEW YOUR FOOD TWENTY TWO TIMES BEFORE YOU
SWALLOW, YOU WILL GET FAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. BELIEF -- Number P686.1.20 BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-00-1985 ; 00-00-1970
IF YOU SLEEP ON YOUR STOMACH DURING YOUR FIRST TWO
MONTHS OF PREGNANCY, YOUR BABY WILL BE STRONG AND
HEALTHY. "MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME THIS WHEN I WAS
PREGNANT WITH MY FIRST CHILD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Measure of time Month BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 06-00-1985 ; 00-00-1981
CIGARETTE SUPERSTITION.
NEVER OPEN THE SIDE OF THE PACK OF CIGARETTES WHICH HAS
THE SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING OR YOU WILL GET LUNG CANCER
FOR SURE.
Submitter comment:
THE SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING IS ON ONE OF THE VERTICAL
SIDES OF A PACK OF CIGARETTES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001982CA
EATING CARROTS MAKES ONE'S HAIR GROW FASTER.
Submitter comment:
MY GREATGRANDMOTHER USED TO TELL ME THIS SO I WOULD EAT MY
CARROTS.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
TO SMILE TOO MUCH IS TO LET DEMONS OF UNHAPPINESS IN.
Submitter comment: IF YOU ARE TOO HAPPY, SOMETHING IS BOUND TO GO WRONG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROCHESTER HILLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Bad luck SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 06-00-1983
GINGER WATER IS GIVEN TO CHILDREN ON HOT DAYS. IT DOES NOT GIVE
THEM CRAMPS IF THEY RUN AND PLAY. YOU NEED A PITCHER OF ICE COLD
WATER; THIS IS YOUR BASE. INTO THE WATER YOU ADD THREE TABLESPOONS
OF SUGAR, ONE FOURTH OF A CUP OF BROWN SUGAR, TWO TABLESPOONS OF
CRUSHED GINGER, TWO SQUEEZES OF LEMON JUICE, AND SIX MEDIUM ICE
CUBES. STIR THIS SLOWLY, CHILL AND SERVE. IT SEEMS TO SWEETLY
WARM UP A CHILD'S STOMACH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Sterling Heights ; WHERE I LEARNED THIS
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- N412 BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
IN NEW GUINEA, A COMMON RITUAL IS THE CANNIBALISTIC
PRACTICE OF EATING RAW HUMAN BRAINS AS A SYMBOL OF VICTORY
OVER AN OPPONENT. THIS SOMETIMES RESULTS IN "LAUGHING
SICKNESS", WHICH IS 100% FATAL.
Submitter comment:
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AIDS, AND I SAID THAT I WONDERED HOW
MANY 100% FATAL DISEASES THERE WERE. PRESTON TOLD ME THIS
STORY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1985
WHEN YOU DROP A KNIFE ON THE FLOOR, SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY WILL GET
SICK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1975 ; 11-00-1987
STAY AWAY FROM UNCOOKED MEAT OR YOU"LL GET WORMS.
Where learned: 26300 SPRINGFIELD DR
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
IF YOU HEAR A RABBIT SCREAM, YOU WILL GO BLIND IN A SHORT TIME.
Where learned: INDIA
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-15-1987
DON'T STEP ON THE GROUND WHERE A DOG HAS JUST SCRATCHED OR
DUG OR A TERRIBLE ITCH WILL BEGIN.
Submitter comment: LEARNED THIS AT A SUMMER ETHNIC CAMP
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 07-00-1975
WHEN CHILDREN ARE WALKING ON SIDEWALKS, THEY ARE CAREFUL NOT
TO STEP ON A CRACK OR THE OTHER CHILDREN WILL SHOUT:
"STEP ON A CRACK YOU JUST BROKE YOUR MOTHER'S BACK"
Submitter comment: STILL VERY POPULAR IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 05-00-1970
GARLIC AROUND THE NECK WILL PREVENT ANY DISEASES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 11-18-1987
IF YOU WAKE UP WHILE SANTA CLAUS IS IN THE HOUSE, HE WILL BLOW DUST
IN YOUR EYES AND YOU'LL BE BLIND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below. BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 11-19-1987
FOR SICKNESS AND PAIN TO BYPASS YOUR HOUSEHOLD, SET A SMALL INCENSED
VASE FILLED WITH MUSK IN YOUR LIVINGROOM WINDOW SILL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Bad luck |
I don't want no black woman to fix my tea, cause she's
liable to "PISON" me.
Where learned: VIRGINIA
James Callow Keyword(s): poison
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 00-00-1939
Old folks would say when you comb your hair, any excess should
be thrown in running water (stream, brook, etc.) This would
make your hair grow. but if you throw it on the ground, the
birds would get it and use it to build their nest which would
cause you to have a ear ache.
Where learned: Arkansas ; LITTLE ROCK
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Running water BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1920