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Always hold your breath when passing a cemetery. If
you do not you will "inhale" death.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; Carbon Hill
Date learned: 00001950S
Never step on a grave. Because if you do, you will make
a dead person angry because you are showing disrespect.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; Carbon Hill
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001950S
When there are a lot of pigeons on a roof there will
be a death in the family or the neighborhood.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; Carbon Hill
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001950'S
To hear a crow cawing is to foretell death.
Where learned: THAILAND
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001960S
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
If something falls in your house there
will be bad luck. If it breaks there
could be a death. This woman's husband had a
heart attack the day after a large container
had fallen from the top of their refrigerator.
She believed that this foretold his heart attack
and that if it had broken he would have died.
She had held this belief prior to her husband's
heart attack.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00001960S
If you dream of teeth and they hurt, it means
someone close to your family will die. If they
don't hurt, a distant person will die.
Submitter comment:
Mrs. Wojtan really believes in her dreams and
told me that they often come true.
Where learned: KANSAS ; Manhattan
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Dreams |
Date learned: 00001920S
Never count the number of cars in a funeral
procession. It is very bad luck.
Where learned: KANSAS ; Manhattan
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs |
Date learned: 00001920S
If a religious picture or article falls off the
wall and breaks as it hits the floor it is a bad
omen. Someone that is close to you, family or a
friend, will probably die.
Submitter comment:
Mrs. Wojtan believes that this is true because it
is a sign to prepare you for someone's death.
Where learned: KANSAS ; Manhattan
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00001920S
If someone is sick and you hear an owl hooting,
it is a bad omen, the person will die soon.
This signifies the sound of death.
Where learned: KANSAS ; Manhattan
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001920S
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
Superstition
If a member of the family dies, a hole should be knocked in
the plaster of the ceiling and a lock of their hair put in it
to prevent the soul from escaping.
Submitter comment:
This was learned by the informant from Michael O'Connor, who
was born in County Cork, Ireland. He was my great grandfather.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001930ca
Legend
In 1918, there was an epidemic of flu, or "grippe."
My father's uncle Derek became sick two weeks after
my great-grandfather died. The family noticed that
the holy card (with the Virgin pictured) was
standing up on its own on his night table.
A priest was called in, and he roped the table off.
The card remained standing with no apparent support
until Derek died, when it suddenly fell over.
This happened in Verdun, near Quebec.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Superstition
My father's sister was an alcoholic. Her mother
believed that when a member of a family died,
he could take a curse with him. So when my uncle Marcel
died, she prayed that he would take her daughter's
alcoholism with him. Shortly thereafter her daughter
stopped drinking, and she attributes this to her wish.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFERENCE
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Curse |
Date learned: 00001980CA
THERE IS AN OLD WIVES' TALE THAT SAYS THAT WHEN A WOMAN IS
IN THE PROCESS OF GIVING BIRTH TO A CHILD THE ANGEL OF
DEATH CIRCLES HER BED NINE TIMES. ONCE FOR EVERY MONTH OF
HER PREGNANCY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Lansing
Keyword(s): PREGNANCY SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | 686 Ninths / Nine Favorites BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001950CA
Indian Ritual
Cherokee Indians believe that when near death their
hands should be placed over their heart in order to allow
the spirit horse to come and deliver their soul away.
Submitter comment:
I read this in a student publication section from the
University of Arizona student newspaper.
Where learned: Arizona
Keyword(s): Cherokee, horse.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1990
A shiver up your spine means someone is
walking on your grave.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions |
Date learned: 00001970S
Don't walk around with one shoe on or your mother will die.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Date learned: 03-00-1991
It is bad luck to count the number of cars of a funeral as it
passes you by. It could cause serious illness or death.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 48221
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
It is bad luck to let your tears fall on the face of the dead.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 48221
James Callow Keyword(s): Coffin ; Corpse ; Crying taboo ; Tabu = taboo
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 03-00-1991