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POLISH CUSTOM
WHEN MY MOTHER WAS A YOUNG GIRL, THERE WAS A SMALL
HOLY WATER FONT AT HER FRONT DOOR. UPON LEAVING THE
HOUSE, ALL MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY WERE EXPECTED TO
"BLESS THEMSELVES." AFTER THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED,
MY GRANDMOTHER OR SOMEONE NEARBY WOULD SAY-IN
POLISH-"GO WITH GOD." WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL WOULD
RETURN HOME FROM CHURCH, MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD SAY
-IN POLISH-"BLESSED BE JESUS CHRIST FOREVER AND
FOREVER."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Home CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church BELIEF -- Home SPEECH -- Gesture |
EAT CABBAGE OR SAUERKRAUT ON NEW YEAR'S FOR GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM YOUTH.
Where learned: INDIANA ; Hudson Lake
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Week Day Hour CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 11-25-1967
IF YOU PUT MONEY ON THE WINDOW SILL ON NEW YEAR'S EVE
YOU'LL HAVE A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR--YOU'LL NEVER BE
BROKE.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER PARENTS WHO RETAIN THE PRACTICE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Year CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 05-10-1965
SOME FRIENDS OF OURS, MR. AND MRS. ED GERRY, ALWAYS
SPEND THE FEW MINUTES BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW YEAR
IN THEIR OWN HOME. THEY LEFT OUR PARTY LAST YEAR
AT 11:40 AND WERE BACK AT 12:20. AND THERE WAS SOME-
THING ABOUT MONEY INVOLVED THAT I CAN'T REMEMBER--
MAYBE THAT THEY DIDN'T PASS MONEY DURING THAT TIME.
Submitter comment:
HAPPENED ON NEW YEAR'S EVE IN 1964-5 IN DETROIT,
MICHIGAN. MR. YOUNT'S BROTHER, WALTER, TOLD ME HE
BELIEVED THIS WAS A PRACTICE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Year CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 05-11-1965
GERMAN PEOPLE HAVE SEVEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF GREEN STUFF
(VEGETABLES) ON NEW YEAR'S DAY FOR GOOD HEALTH:
CABBAGE, PEPPERS, PICKLES, CELERY, SPINACH, LETTUCE,
AND SAUERKRAUT.
ALSO, THEY HOLD MONEY IN THEIR HAND AT 12:00 ON NEW
YEAR'S EVE. IF THE KIDS ARE IN BED, THEY WAKE THEM
UP AS IT WOULDN'T WORK IF IT WAS JUST IN YOUR POCKET.
THEY DO IT FOR A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
Submitter comment:
TOLD TO HIM BY JOE KELLER FROM HUNTINGTON, WEST
VIRGINIA, WHO NOW WORKS WITH HIM IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Year CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 05-18-1965
WE ALWAYS HAD SAUERKRAUT AND PORK ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
FOR GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: PRACTICE AT HOME IN GLOUCESTER, OHIO
Where learned: OHIO ; GLOUCESTER
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Year CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 05-11-1965
SLOVAK CHRISTMAS-EVE CUSTOM
BEFORE A FARMER SAT DOWN TO EAT, HE WENT OUT TO THE
BARN AND GAVE HIS LIVESTOCK GARLIC SO THAT THEY MAY
BE HEALTHY DURING THE COMING YEAR. HE ALSO SPRINKLED
THEM WITH HOLY WATER.
Where learned: OHIO ; CLEVELAND
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 00001967 FALL
THE GOOD FAIRY
WHEN YOU LOSE A TOOTH, PLACE IT UNDERNEATH YOUR PILLOW
AND BY MORNING THE GOOD FAIRY WILL HAVE REPLACED IT
WITH A DIME.
Submitter comment:
I LEARNED THIS FROM MY PARENTS WHEN I WAS FIVE YEARS
OLD IN 1948 IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 05-12-1965
DON'TS ON THE SABBATH
SABBATH BEGINS AT SUNDOWN ON FRIDAY (JUDAISM). A
PERSON CANNOT TURN ON A LIGHT OR LIGHT UP AN OVEN
UNTIL SUNDAY. ONCE COULD NOT / TELL SOMEONE ELSE TO DO
IT, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED THAT HE WERE
WORKING. (THE SOMEONE ELSE WOULD BE WORKING, TOO).
ONLY BEFORE
SUNDOWN ON FRIDAY, COULD ONE EMPLOY SOMEBODY TO DO
SOMETHING FOR HIM; AND, ONLY, BEFORE OR AFTER THE
SABBATH, COULD HE OFFER PAYMENT.
Submitter comment:
SHE LEARNED THIS FROM HER FAMILY, BUT DOES NOT PRACTICE
IT TODAY. SHE RECALLED THAT HER FATHER WOULD COME
HOME FROM WORK ON FRIDAY AND THEN RUN SEVERAL BLOCKS
TO THE THEATER TO BUY TICKETS FOR THE SATURDAY
MATINEE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Home CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Week Day Hour BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 04-00-1965
CROSS BREAD BEFORE YOU CUT IT, THUS YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE
FOOD.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: NEIGHBORS
James Callow Keyword(s): SIGN OF THE CROSS?
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Cross and its various modifications |
Date learned: 10-22-1967
IF ALL THE PLATES WERE SCRAPED CLEAN (IF THERE WERE NO LEFT OVERS)
THERE WOULD BE GOOD WEATHER THE NEXT DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLIO
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 00-00-1973 ; 11-00-1987
IF YOU TAKE ALL OF YOUR POTATO PEELINGS AND PUT THEM IN THE FIRE-
PLACE AND BURN THEM WITH YOUR FIRE, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ANY CREOSOTE
BUILD-UP, AND YOU WILL NEVER NEED YOUR CHIMNEY SWEPT.
Submitter comment:
SHE SWEARS THAT THIS IS TRUE, AND SHOWED ME HER CHIMNEY FLUE, WHICH
HASN'T BEEN CLEANED IN FIVE YEARS TO PROVE IT. THE FLUE WAS CLEAN
AS A WHISTLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Ortonville
James Callow Keyword(s): CREOSOTE ; FIREPLACE
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 00001930S CA.
A MAN MUST BUY A BROOM FOR HIS HOUSE, AND CARRY IT
INSIDE UPSIDE DOWN ALONG WITH A BOX OF SALT. IT IS
GOOD LUCK TO DO SO.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; SMALL MINING TOWN IN
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Good luck |
If you hang wolfbang (an herb) above the
kitchen door all will be well in your house.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION ; wolfbane?
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: 00001985ca
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
When you're washing you clothes don't get wet or your husband
will become a drunk.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; RIVER ROUGE
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
Never whistle in the house because it is bad luck.
Submitter comment:
My mother always yelled at all of us kids when ever we would
whistle in a house no matter whose house we were in.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
If you keep whiskey on the window ledge, it will keep evil
thoughts from disturbing your home.
Where learned: LOUISIANA ; New Orleans
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Alcoholic beverage Distilled BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
You should always keep your door ledges clean, because that's
where thoughts are held.
Where learned: LOUISIANA ; New Orleans
Date learned: 00-00-1971
Never put new or used shoes on the kitchen table; to do so
will bring about bad luck in the household.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIVONIA
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress HandsFeet BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 03-02-1992