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WHEN WATCHING THE WEATHER ON THE NEWS I HEARD THE
WEATHERMAN SAY THAT "WHEN FLIES BITE IT IS GOING
TO RAIN VERY SOON."
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDFATHER TOLD THIS TO ME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER
AND BEING BITTEN ALIVE BY FLIES--I DON'T REMEMBER
IF IT RAINED OR NOT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
IF A LADY BUG LANDS ON YOU,
YOU WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS TOLD TO ALL OF JEAN'S
GRANDCHILDREN, AS WELL AS ALL
HER CHILDREN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Good luck Animals |
Date learned: 00001960S
NEVER KILL WHITE SPIDERS BECAUSE
THEY BRING MONEY AND LUCK.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAYS SHE BELIEVES THIS TO BE TRUE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Good luck Animals |
Date learned: 00-00-1985
BLACK-AMERICAN BELIEF
WHEN A SPIDER SWINGS DOWN FROM A WEB
IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU WILL SEE A GOOD
FRIEND WHOM YOU ARE NOT EXPECTING.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI
Keyword(s): SPIDER
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
BLACK-AMERICAN BELIEF
PLACE CORNBREAD CRUMBS ABOUT YOUR CUCUMBER
PLANTS. THEY WILL ATTRACT ANTS, WHICH WILL
DESTROY THE CUCUMBER INSECTS.
Submitter comment: HEARD AS A CHILD ON GRANDMOTHER'S FARM
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI
Keyword(s): CROPS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Animal Husbandry Farming Ranching |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
THE XHOSA TRIBE OF SOUTH AFRICA HAD AN INITIATION
RITE INVOLVING CIRCUMCISION. WHEN A BOY REACHED FIFTEEN,
HE WAS TO BE CIRCUMCISED TO BRING HIM TO MANHOOD. THE
CIRCUMCISION WAS DONE WITH AN ASSEGAI (A WOODEN SPEAR)
AND THE FORESKIN WAS THEN PUT IN AN ANTHILL TO BE
DEVOURED BY THE ANTS, SYMBOLIZING HIS DIMINISHING BOYHOOD.
HE THEN SPENT SEVEN DAYS IN A SMALL LODGE BY THE ANTHILL
WITH THE OTHERS PARTICIPATING IN THE RITE. AFTER THE SEVEN
DAYS, THE MEN EMERGED FROM THE LODGE, BURNED IT DOWN, AND
DID SEVERAL RITUALISTIC DANCES TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE NOW
MEN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Maturity BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 11-13-1987
IF THE CATERPILLER (WOOLLY BEAR) HAS A BROWN COAT, IT MEANS
IT'LL BE A MILD WINTER. IF THE WOOLLY BEAR CATERPILLAR HAS
A BLACK COAT IT MEANS IT WILL BE A HARD WINTER.
Where learned: MINNESOTA ; FAIRBAULT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 10-15-1987 ; 10-14-1987
IF YOU SEE A WHITE SPIDER, TEAR A PIECE OF BROWN PAPER BAG AND
KEEP IT AND IT WILL BRING YOU GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 11-00-1987
CHINESE CHILDREN ALWAYS KEEP CRICKETS IN THEIR POCKETS FOR GOOD
LUCK.
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1978 ; 10-00-1987
A spider crawling on your curtains brings good luck and you
should not kill him.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1951
IF YOU STEP ON AN ANT IT WILL RAIN ALL DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Measure of time Year |
Date learned: 00001970S
IF YOU ARE STUNG BY A BEE AND YOU DON'T REMOVE THE STINGER
A TREE WILL BEGIN TO GROW OUT OF YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-01-1990
When you find a wooly caterpillar in the
summer you should always pick it up and look
at it because it will foretell the weather
that coming winter. There is a black band
around its middle. If the band is pretty
small there will be a mild winter. But the
larger the band the more harsh and the longer
the winter will be.
Submitter comment:
Marty swears that this always works. He didn't
know if there was any biological truth to this.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Allegan
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Measure of time Winter BELIEF -- Measure of time Summer BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001970S
Prediction
My mother was taught that, six weeks after the first
grasshopper chirped, there would be snow.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Date learned: 00001950CA
IF ANTS HAVE A HIGH PILE OF DIRT AROUND THEIR HILLS THIS MEANS
IT IS GOING TO RAIN. THE HIGHER THE HILL, THE MORE IT WILL RAIN.
Where learned: MISSOURI
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Measure of space: distance, height, depth BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001940S
IF YOU SEE A BLACK BEETLE LYING ON HIS BACK THE WEATHER IN THE
NEAR FUTURE WILL BE BAD. IF YOU HELP THE BEETLE YOU WILL HAVE BAD
LUCK IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Where learned: UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Bad luck BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001940S
When the New Year arrives put a spider in your purse, and you
will have money all year long.
Submitter comment:
The informant can't remember when she learned this superstition,
but she has been doing it for about 20 years.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): bugs
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Measure of time Year |
Date learned: 00001950S
There were so many roaches in the house that they took over
the basement and you had to pay a toll to wash your clothes.
Submitter comment:
My mother told me that times were hard coming up; therefore
they just made fun of the problems they had. She really didn't
have any stories to tell that may have been passed down to her
mother because both her parents worked and didn't have time to
tell them. So the kids would make up jokes to help them laugh
about the conditions they lived in.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): housing conditions
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 00001960S
I was told that if you killed an ant, especially a black ant,
it would cause rain to come.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Bug superstitions
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 01-00-1978
Lady Bug
If a lady bug landed on you, you would say this little verse
and blow it off your hand. If it flew away out of sight, without
landing, her children were safe.
Lady Bug, Lady Bug
Fly fast away
Your house is on fire
And your children astray.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNKNOWN ; ROSEVILLE ; Child
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 00001950S