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SOCIAL
AT SOCIAL EVENTS THE ITALIAN MEN ALL GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE
ROOM AND THE WOMEN IN ANOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Date learned: 11-09-1972
MY PARENTS ALWAYS USED TO TELL ME THAT WHENEVER I LOST A
TOOTH, I SHOULD PUT IT UNDER MY PILLOW AND THE GOOD
FAIRY WOULD EXCHANGE IT FOR A QUARTER.
WHEN I TRIED THIS I WOULD FIND THE 25 CENTS UNDER MY
PILLOW IN THE MORNING. I LATER FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS
MY PARENTS PUTTING THE MONEY THERE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle |
Date learned: 00-00-1954
WHEN YOU LOSE A TOOTH, PUT IT UNDER YOUR PILLOW AND THE
GOOD FAIRY WILL LEAVE YOU SOME MONEY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
AMONG GERMAN IMMIGRANTS TO THIS COUNTRY, IT WAS CUSTOMARY
FOR A COIN WITH THE DATE OF ENTRY TO BE PASSED DOWN
AMONG THE OLDEST MALE IN THE FAMILY. THE INFORMANT
DID NOT REMEMBER THE BELIEF BEHIND THIS CUSTOM.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle |
Date learned: 02-15-1971
BELIEF IN ITALY
A HUSBAND SHOULD BE FROM YOUR OWN TOWN OR YOUR OWN
PEOPLE, BUT A BAPTISMAL SPONSOR (GODPARENTS) SHOULD
COME FROM OUTSIDE YOUR TOWN, OR ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING
IT, FROM STRANGE PEOPLE (MEANING NOT OF YOUR FAMILY
RATHER THAN NOT KNOWN BY YOU).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Baptism Naming rite CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage |
Date learned: 10-26-1969
A CHILD SAVING HIS FIRST COMMUNION TIE AND BURNING
IT WHEN AND IF HE COMMITS A MORTAL SIN.
Submitter comment: DOES NOT REMEMBER (WHEN LEARNED)
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle |
Date learned: 10-28-1967
FAMILY TRADITION
SINCE 1876, THIS FAMILY HAS BEEN RECORDING ALL
THE BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES OF THE FAMILY IN
TWO FAMILY BIBLES.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT LEARNED IT FROM HER GRANDPARENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIVONIA
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle |
IF A BABY OR VERY YOUNG CHILD HABITUALLY STICKS ITS
TONGUE OUT, IT IS A SIGN THAT THE MOTHER, DURING
THE BABY'S (GESTATION), HAD A CRAVING FOR SOMETHING
SHE COULD NOT GET.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT CLAIMS THAT SHE LEARNED THIS FROM HER
GRANDMOTHER BECAUSE SHE, WHEN VERY SMALL ALWAYS
HAD HER TONGUE OUT. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE
INFORMANT'S (MOTHER) DID HAVE A CRAVING FOR BREAD
AND BUTTER DURING HER PREGNANCY, BUT COULD NOT GET
ANY BECAUSE OF THE WAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 05-14-1965
WHEN BECOMING BLOOD SISTERS, EACH PERSON TOOK SOME SMALL
TREASURES (RINGS, PENNIES, ETC.) AND PUT THEM IN A GLASS
JAR AND BURIED THE JAR IN THE WOODS OR ON THE SIDE OF THE
ROAD, THEN MARK THE PLACE BY A PILE OF STONES OR APPLES, ETC.
WHICH IS PARTIALLY BURIED. WHEN THE PACT IS BROKEN UP ONE
OF THE TWO PEOPLE DIG IT UP AND RETURN THE TREASURES TO THE
OWNER, THUS THE SISTERHOOD IS BROKEN.
Submitter comment:
THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I WAS 11 OR 12, WHEN I
MADE A NEW FRIEND MY BLOOD SISTER BROKE THE PACT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; KALAMAZOO
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP PACT
Date learned: 11-12-1971
CRUCIAL MOMENT OF LIFE CUSTOM
WHEN A FRATERNITY BROTHER OF MY FRATERNITY GETS MARRIED,
GRADUATES, OR GETS PINNED, WE TOAST HIM BY INTERLOCKING
OUR ARMS WITH THE DRINKS IN OUR HANDS, WE CLINK THE
GLASSES BACKWARDS AND CHUG THE DRINK.
Submitter comment:
HE COMMENTS THAT THIS PROBABLY SOUNDS STUPID, BUT
THEY ALWAYS DO IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): SLANG: CHUG=DRINK IT ALL AT ONCE.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Crucial Moment of Life Life Cycle CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Food Drink -- Drink SPEECH -- Drinking |
Date learned: 11-02-1970