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IF YOU DREAM OF A WEDDING IT IS A SIGN OF BIRTH.
Submitter comment: POLISH SUPERSTITION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 10-10-1987
If a baby girl is desired, put a hatchet under the bed.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001940S
WHEN I WAS PREGNANT WITH MY FIRST CHILD I CONTINUALLY HAD
CRAVINGS FOR STRAWBERRIES. I WAS KNOWN TO EAT STRAWBERRIES
MORE THAN 3 TIMES IN A GIVEN DAY. MY MOTHER ONCE TOLD ME TO
STOP THIS HABIT OR MY CHILD WOULD LOOK LIKE A STRAWBERRY.
SHE SAID THAT IN THE OLD COUNTRY (HUNGARY), SUCH THINGS HAD
HAPPENED MANY TIMES. SHE SAID THAT MY CHILD WOULD CARRY WITH
HER, FOREVER, A REMINDER OF MY CRAVING. AS IT GOES, MY FIRST
CHILD WAS BORN WITH A STRAWBERRY SHAPED BIRTHMARK ON HER LEFT
LEG. NOW, SOME 25 YEARS LATER, SHE STILL HAS THE BIRTHMARK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHGATE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
ONLY THOSE BORN IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER SHOULD WEAR THE OPAL,
IT WILL BRING ALL OTHERS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WHITMORE LAKE ; 48189
James Callow Keyword(s): JEWELRY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F100 BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- P647 BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-24-1988
THE ANCIENT GREEKS BELIEVED THAT THE WOMB HAD TWO POUCHES,
THE ONE ON THE RIGHT FOR MALE INFANTS AND THE ONE ON THE
LEFT FOR FEMALE INFANTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-01-1988
PREGNANT WOMEN SHOULD NOT GO TO FUNERALS AND LOOK UPON
THE DECEASED PERSON; OTHERWISE THEIR CHILD WILL LOOK LIKE
THE DECEASED PERSON THEY SAW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Marriage |
"MONDAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE,
TUESDAY'S CHILD IS FULL OF GRACE,
WEDNESDAY'S CHILD IS FULL OF WOE,
THURSDAY'S CHILD HAS FAR TO GO,
FRIDAY'S CHILD IS LOVING AND GIVING,
SATURDAY'S CHILD WORKS FOR A LIVING,
AND SUNDAY'S CHILD IS FAIR AND WISE AND GOOD AND GAY."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 02-20-1990
IF YOU SEE A PERSON WHO WAS BORN WITH RED HAIR, IT MEANS
THAT THEIR PARENTS MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL SOMETIME
THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 04-01-1990
This actually happened to my informant's great-
grandmother. If a pregnant woman happens to get
injured and touches a part of her body the baby will
have a mark on that part of it's body.
As in the case I learned about, the woman's great-
grandmother slipped and twisted her ankle. When she
fell she held her ankle in pain. When the baby was
born she had a hand print around the same ankle that
was injured in the mother's slip and fall!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001988 ca
If a pregnant woman sees something die, like an animal
or a person, during her pregnancy the baby will have
a birth-mark in the shape of the animal or person
that she saw die.
My informant seemed quite sure about this. Someone
that she knew saw a person get hit by a car when she
was pregnant and her baby had what looked like a red
mark shaped like a person on its back.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001988 ca
To insure that a healthy baby will be born, make a sign of the
cross on the mother's belly every day before delivery.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GRAND RAPIDS
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Birth SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00-00-1990
Several years ago I was told that a way to determine
the sex on an unborn child is by how much pain the
mother-to-be experiences during her nine month
pregnancy. If a woman experiences a lot of pain she
will give birth to a boy. If she experiences little
or no pain, she will give birth to a girl.
Submitter comment:
I had some doubts about this until after my sister
gave birth to her first child. She now has three kids
and went through enormous pain during each pregnancy
and as it turns out, she gave birth to three boys.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): gender
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
A PERSON BORN BEFORE NOON AND AFTER MIDNIGHT
INDICATES THRIFTINESS AND ARROGANCE WHILE A
PERSON BORN AFTER NOON AND BEFORE MIDNIGHT
INDICATES GENEROSITY AND KINDNESS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 00001980S
When my mother was growing up she lived with her
parents and her grandparents. Her grandparents
had come from Malta and still kept close ties to
the country. Hundreds of years ago the Turks
attacked Malta and destroyed almost everything.
When it rained out my mother would often see her
grandparents looking out the window. If the sun
happened to be out while it was raining they
would say, very negatively, "another Turk." In
this way she was taught that for every time it
rained while the sun was out, a Turkish child was
born and therefore it was a bad day. Because this
happens more rarely, they could be happy that there
were less Turks in the world.
Submitter comment:
This is usually said as a derogatory statement,
usually in disgust. My grandmother and mother
never say this because they believe that it is
unfair to hold this grudge today.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Birth PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: 00001950S
A pregnant woman should never look at a fire
burning.
Where learned: KANSAS ; Manhattan
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth BELIEF -- Fire BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001940S
Before my grandmother got married she was
told that she should never love her husband
or her children more than she loved God. If
she did God might decide to take them to heaven
for himself.
Submitter comment: My grandmother is very religious.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001940S
If you see a horribly deformed or crippled
person, you should make the sign of the cross,
especially if you are pregnant.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Birth SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00001940S
To Increase Milk Flow
Rub castor oil on the breasts to increase milk flow
after the birth of a baby.
Submitter comment:
From the doctoring book of Florida Amanda Pearce,
last mistress of Springhill Plantation, kept
before the Civil War. (More at Informant Profile.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001940CA
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
Only Child
At dinner times a person can tell who an only
child is because they eat the slowest. I am an
only child and always the last to leave the table.
This was told to me by another only child.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UTICA
Date learned: 11-16-1990