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PLANT CUCUMBER SEEDS ON TWIN DAYS IN MAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): GEMINI ZODIAC ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 07-03-1970
TEETH SHOULD BE PULLED WHEN THE "SIGNS" ARE BELOW THE KNEES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; DORM ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 05-08-1969
YOU SHOULD NEVER WEAN A BABY UNTIL HIS ZODIAC SIGN IS IN HIS
KNEE OR HE WILL CRY HIMSELF TO DEATH.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): ALMANAC ASTROLOGY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
CUT OR BRUISE BUSHES WHEN THE SIGNS ARE IN THE HEART DURING
MAY OR AUGUST AND THEY WILL DIE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC ASTROLOGY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- August BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 06-30-1973
DON'T PLANT BEANS WHEN THE SIGN IS IN THE ARMS. THEY WILL BE
LONG RUNNERS WITH NO BEANS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC ASTROLOGY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 06-30-1973
THE BEST TIME TO PLANT BEANS IS WHEN THE SIGN IS IN THE FEET.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC ASTROLOGY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 06-30-1973
DON'T PLANT ANYTHING WHEN THE SIGNS ARE IN THE BOWELS OR SECRETS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC ASTROLOGY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 06-30-1973
DEHORN COWS WHEN THE SIGNS ARE IN THE KNEES OR FEET.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal Husbandry Farming Ranching |
Date learned: 06-30-1973
CASTRATE BULLS OR PIGS WHEN THE SIGN IS IN THE KNEES, FEET,
OR LEGS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal Husbandry Farming Ranching |
Date learned: 06-30-1973
BLOOD CIRCULATES IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE BODY ACCORDING TO
THE SIGN OF THE MOON. IF YOU HAVE A TOOTH PULLED UNDER THE
WRONG SIGN OF THE MOON, WHEN THE BLOOD IS CONCENTRATED IN
THE HEAD, YOU WILL BLEED TO DEATH.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT COULD NOT REMEMBER THE SIGN OF THE MOON.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Surgery |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ALWAYS PLANT POTATOES ON DARK OF THE MOON.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
NEVER PLANT CORN ON THE LIGHT OF THE MOON. IF YOU DO, IT WILL
GROW TOO TALL AND ALL GO TO STALK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
PLANTING CUCUMBERS
YES, ONE I REMEMBER. MOTHER SAID THE ONLY TIME TO PLANT
CUCUMBERS WAS IN THE SIGN OF GEMINI, THE TWINS. THAT WAY
THEY PRODUCE TWICE AS MANY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two Observation BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
MAKE KRAUT WHEN SIGNS ARE BELOW THE STOMACH SO IT WILL BE
MORE SOUR.
Where learned: PARIS ; TENNESSEE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC ; SAUERKRAUT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: 06-20-1970
INFORMANT STATED THAT IT WAS A GOOD TIME TO PLANT SPRING ONIONS
BECAUSE IT WAS THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): ALMANAC
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
TO TAKE THE LAST PIECE OF BREAD IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION ; TABLE MANNERS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. BELIEF -- Number Last events: the last person to the table... BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 10-08-1973
THE LAIRD OF LENOX
A VERY THIN MAN WITH WHITE, SIGHTLESS EYES, RED SKINNED,
AND DRESSED IN STUART-TARTAN, EKED OUT A LIVING BY
BLOWING ON A BIG TIN WHISTLE. NOBODY EVER KNEW THE
TUNES THAT THE "LAIRD" PLAYED, BUT ALWAYS BEFORE
BEGINNING HIS RECITAL, HE WOULD REMARK: "WHO GAVE
ME THIS LONESOME WHISTLE?" "AH, I MIND NOO! THE
LAIRD OF LENNOX."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MUSICIAN, FLUTE BLIND MAN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being |
Date learned: 01-28-1971
THE LAIRD OF LENOX
A VERY THIN MAN WITH WHITE, SIGHTLESS EYES, RED SKINNED,
AND DRESSED IN STUART-TARTAN, EKED OUT A LIVING BY
BLOWING ON A BIG TIN WHISTLE. NOBODY EVER KNEW THE
TUNES THAT THE "LAIRD" PLAYED, BUT ALWAYS BEFORE
BEGINNING HIS RECITAL, HE WOULD REMARK: "WHO GAVE
ME THIS LONESOME WHISTLE?" "AH, I MIND NOO! THE
LAIRD OF LENNOX."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MUSICIAN, FLUTE BLIND MAN STUART: ALTERNATE SPELLING: STEWART
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being |
Date learned: 01-28-1971
TOM SWIFTY
"LET ME SLIP INTO SOMETHING MORE COMFORTABLE," SHE
SAID NEGLIGENTLY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PUN ON NEGLIGEE, A WOMAN'S LOOSE DRESSING GOWN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation |
Date learned: 12-00-1967
PROVERB
MORNING HOUR HAS GOLD IN THE MOUTH.
TRANSLATION OF:
MORGEN STUND' HAT GOLD IM MUND'.
Where learned: OFFICE
James Callow Keyword(s): GERMAN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-28-1967