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If you accidentally spill salt on the table,
you should sprinkle it over your left shoulder
for good luck.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): LEFT RIGHT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P479 BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck BELIEF -- Conversions |
Date learned: 00001970S
Louis Cyr, Strongman
Louis Cyr, famed Quebecois strongman who was for some
time with P.T. Barnum's Circus, is said to at one time
have held onto the tails of four horses at once.
The horses were then whipped, but could not run away.
Submitter comment:
Louis Cyr was married to the cousin of my
father's mother. She liked to spread impossible
stories about unrecorded feats of his.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale BELIEF -- P479 |
Date learned: 00001940CA
Louis Cyr, Strongman
Louis Cyr, famed Quebecois strongman who was for some
time with P.T. Barnum's Circus, is said to at one time
have pushed a loaded cargo car up a steep hill by himself.
Submitter comment:
Louis Cyr was married to the cousin of my
father's mother. She liked to spread impossible
stories about unrecorded feats of his.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale BELIEF -- P479 |
Date learned: 00001940CA