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BELIEF-HOME
DON'T TAKE A BATH DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM FOR FEAR OF
ELECTROCUTION.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: INDIANA ; Hudson Lake
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 11-23-1967
ON ASSUMPTION DAY (AUGUST 15), IF YOU BLESS FLOWERS
AND KEEP THEM IN YOUR HOUSE,
LIGHTNING WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR HOUSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- August 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-00-1972
DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM
ACCORDING TO THIS BELIEF, IF A PERSON LEAVES HIS TELEVISION DURING
AN ELECTRICAL STORM, LIGHTNING WILL HIT IT, BLOW IT UP, AND
ELECTROCUTE ALL PERSONS WATCHING IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PORT HURON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 09-25-1972
"I ALWAYS USED TO HEAR THAT IF YOU BURNED A CANDLE DURING A STORM,
LIGHTNING WON'T STRIKE."
Submitter comment: THE CANDLE COULD BE ALONE, OR A VOTIVE TYPE CANDLE.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; Wappingers Falls
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 00001950S
THUNDER
WHEN IT THUNDERS, THE LORD IS WALKING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 09-12-1972
ANGELS
THUNDER MEANS THE ANGELS ARE BOWLING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 04-01-1968
IT IS AN OLD BELIEF AMONG FARMERS THAT IT IS BENEFICIAL TO LET
BARN-SWALLOWS BUILD NESTS IN YOUR BARN, BECAUSE LIGHTNING WILL
NEVER STRIKE A BARN WHERE BARN-SWALLOWS LIVE.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
LIGHTNING WILL NOT STRIKE THE SAME SPOT TWICE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1.2 BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
ANGEL BELIEF
LIGHTNING IS THE RESULT OF THE CLASHING OF THE SWORDS OF THE GODS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 04-01-1968
HOME PROTECTION BELIEF IN STORM
IT IS A COMMON PRACTICE IN NEWFOUNDLAND IN CATHOLIC HOMES
TO LIGHT CANDLES AND TURN OFF ELECTRICITY TO PROTECT THE HOME
AGAINST STORMS.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S MOTHER STILL DOES THIS, BUT THE INFORMANT
DOES NOT THINK THAT THERE IS ANYTHING TO THE PRACTICE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): DISBELIEF
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
HOME STORM PROTECTION
WHENEVER A STORM WOULD ARISE MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD PUT
A BLESSED PALM IN THE WINDOW TO PREVENT LIGHTNING FROM STRIKING
THE HOUSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |
HOME STORM PROTECTION
DURING A STORM, YOU SHOULD LIGHT BLESSED CANDLES. THIS WILL
PROTECT THE HOUSE FROM LIGHTNING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |
Date learned: 01-30-1971
STORM BELIEF
NEVER CARRY A METAL OBJECT WHEN IT THUNDERS.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT KNEW A MAN IN POLAND WHO WAS HOLDING A BIG SICKLE
AND HAD A NEEDLE IN HIS CAP WHILE IT WAS STRUCK BY THE LIGHTNING
AND THUNDERING. THE MAN GOT STRUCK BY THE LIGHTNING AND WAS
KILLED. MY FATHER SAW THE CORPSE AS IT WAS PULLED BY.
(IN POLAND, 1915-1920).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.222 |
Date learned: 11-19-1971
HOME STORM PROTECTION BELIEF
INFORMANT'S MOTHER ALWAYS LIGHTS A CANDLE DURING A
THUNDERSTORM TO PROTECT THE HOUSE FROM LIGHTNING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |
Date learned: 10-08-1971
LIGHTNING WON'T STRIKE TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1.2 BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
WEATHER BELIEF
INFORMANT'S MOTHER WOULD LEAVE THE FRONT DOOR OPEN
WHEN IT WAS LIGHTNING BECAUSE IF THE LIGHTNING STRUCK THE HOUSE,
IT WOULD GO OUT THE FRONT DOOR. IF THE DOOR WAS CLOSED,
THE LIGHTNING WOULD CREATE A VACUUM, AND DRAW ALL THE AIR OUT
OF THE HOUSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |
Date learned: 02-10-1970
LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1.2 BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A CANDLE IN EACH WINDOW WILL PREVENT
LIGHTNING FROM HITTING YOUR HOME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 11-19-1968
STORM BELIEF
WHEN IT THUNDERS AND LIGHTINGS, GOD IS ANGRY WITH HIS PEOPLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): LIGHTNING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Creator BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |