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Baby Belief
If a baby is born with open hands he/she will be generous.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
James Callow Keyword(s): PERSONALITY
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 03-00-1992
Baby Belief
If a baby has large ears, he will be a loving person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
James Callow Keyword(s): PERSONALITY
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses Ears, noise in ear BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Measure of space: distance, height, depth |
Date learned: 03-00-1992
Baby Belief
A bald-headed baby is destined to be a very smart student.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses No hair, baldness BELIEF -- School BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 03-00-1992
Baby Belief
Babies born with "outtie" (a navel that sticks out) navels will
have good luck.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
James Callow Keyword(s): outie -- variant spelling?
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 03-00-1992
Baby Belief
A baby born with a dimple in the chin will be wealthy.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
Date learned: 03-00-1992
My mother believes that when a baby is born with a
veil(placenta) still covering its face that it will be able to see
spirits.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
Keyword(s): Gypsies
| Subject headings: | Prophet / Seer / Soothsayer Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
Genius
It's been said that if a child never meets his/her father then
that child will be very intelligent.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
Keyword(s): High IQ
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Secular hero BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
If dogs howl all night, it means that someone is dying.
Submitter comment:
I heard this from a girl I went to school with. She told this
the morning after her mother had a miscarriage. Her mother had
miscarried during the night while the dogs in the neighborhood
howled.
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
When I was in my first year of Dental Hygiene school I
learned of a dental superstition from one of my instructors. It
states that for every pregnancy a woman goes through she will
lose one tooth. Neither I nor my instructor are sure how or
where this belief came about, but we do know that it was
considered an "old wive's tale."
James Callow comment:
See Hand, North Carolina, no. 13: "Each child costs a woman a
tooth." Hand cites parallels among Pennsylvania Germans and
Southern Blacks, as well as the residents of Illinois and the
Ozarks.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1987
Cure
To remove the pinkeye; one should take the milk from a woman
who is breast feeding and put a few drops into the eye for two
days.
Submitter comment:
The informant's mother told her to do this for her son and it
worked.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Lansing
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Animal |
The souls of ancestors were reborn in other living things or
objects.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): African Reincarnation Myths
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-00-1992
Pregnancy
If a woman is pregnant she should not lift her arms above the
height of her shoulders. The umbilical cord could become tangled
around the unborn baby's neck and strangle it in the womb.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Sex of Child
If a pregnant woman "carries" her child "high" or close to her
breasts, she is expecting a girl; if she carries the child "low" or
closer to her pelvis, she is expecting a girl.
Submitter comment: She's about 95% accurate by my experience.
Where learned: Arkansas ; PINE BLUFF
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Dream of fish
If you dream of fish a woman in your family is pregnant.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DREAMS ; FISH ; Portent ; PREDICTION ; PREGNANCY ; SIGN ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fish BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Dreams Dreams about animals |
Living in Northern Michigan, a means of heating our home was by
using a wood burning stove. My parents live up there now by
themselves and we often try to help them prepare their wood pile
for the long cold winter. The wood has to be cut and stacked,
however, some logs have to chopped or split. On one fall weekend,
several of us from the family were up there to help with the wood.
My oldest sister was there splitting the wood most of the weekend.
A month later the big news in our family was that my sister was now
pregnant after many years of trying to get pregnant. From then on
my Father has always kidded that it was the splitting of the wood
that had gotten her pregnant. Now during our wood working weekends
only those that my parents want to get pregnant are allowed to
split wood, no girlfriends or finances are allowed. This has been
a standing joke with our family, the miraculous results of
splitting wood, pregnancy.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HOUGHTON LAKE
Keyword(s): POST HOC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
When a baby is born to a Polish mother, you are supposed to put
a red ribbon on a safety pin so the child is always protected by
their guardian angel; a medal of a saint, angel, or the Mother of
God may be added also-- but the red ribbon is essential. This
will protect the child from ladies with evil eyes who will look at
your child, and the child may get sick, get a rash all over its
body, or could even die; this also protects the child from evil-
eyed women who may abduct the child, also.
Submitter comment:
This is yet another custom that my mother has passed on to her
children. It has worked with all my grandmother's children and
grandchildren so far.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001920S
Never eat hot sauce or eat hot foods while pregnant. To do
so would cause problems with the baby's eyes.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): Spice spicy
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Flavoring Spice BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
The older women in my church would tell the younger girls, that
if you sit in a chair behind a pregnant woman, that you would also
become pregnant. We would spend the entire day avoiding any seats
that were occupied by anyone pregnant.
Submitter comment: That was their way of scaring us into not being promiscuous.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Birth |
IF YOU WERE BORN ON A FRIDAY, YOU WILL HAVE A LIFE
OF GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: GRANDMOTHER
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRTH
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- NOT SURE BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Good luck Crucial moment of life |
Date learned: 11-00-1967
A CHILD BORN WITH A "CZEPEK" (FILM ON INFANT'S HEAD)
IS ALWAYS LUCKY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRTH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Head, physiognomy, face BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Good luck Crucial moment of life |
Date learned: 02-07-1971