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Ethnic Joke: Misc.
One fellow advising another to buy Fisher Price Toy MFG.Co. stock, because they were planning to marker a new item that was expected to go great. It was a boxed jigsaw puzzle made expressly for (Poles, or Italians, or Irish, etc.) with instructions which would eliminate any confusion by saying "open either end."
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Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Parks, William ; Collection
Keyword(s): BUSINESS ; Entertainments ; ETHNIC ; GAMES ; Investment ; Italian ; Jewish ; Mockery ; POLISH ; RIDICULE ; Stereotype ; Stock
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
Mnemonic Device
ARITHMETIC = A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Darmanin, Adelina ; 1448 Junction
Keyword(s): Arithmetic ; MATHEMATICS ; MEMORY ; MNEMONIC ; Mnemonic Device ; SCHOOL ; SPELLING
James Callow Keyword(s): Mnemonic Device ; SPELLING
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Mnemonic Device
Memory Verse:
In Italian:
"Le Vocali"
Ah, che cose strombe!
L'A con due gambe;
L'E con tre braccia;
L'O tondo in faccia.
Curioso e L'U
Che guarda in su;
Ma il piu carino
L'I col puntino.
In English:
Oh, what strange things!
The A with two legs;
The E with three arms;
The O's round face.
Different is the U that looks up;
But the cutest one is the I with the dot.
Submitter comment:
The TIalian children use this little rhyme to help remember the vowels
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Original BN [C534] is crossed out. No replacement
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; VALENTES MENS FORMALWEAR ; Pino, Giovanni
Keyword(s): Italian ; MEMORY ; MNEMONIC ; Mnemonic Device ; RHYME ; Vowels
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Graffiti
When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your primary objective was to drain the swamp.
Submitter comment:
Graffiti regarding final examinations and the purposes of education.
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Upper left hand corner, the name JIM: is written.
Bottomright hand corner, the name Dick Kowalczyk is written.
Where learned: UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): Alligators ; EDUCATION ; EDUCATION ADVICE ; GRAFFITI
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Ethnic: Native American
To Offer the Pipe:
After the pipe is filled it is offered silently in the four directions, skyward and earthward by pointing the stem away from the body while holding the bowl in the right hand. Nowone is prepared to hold the Pipe in two hands in any way that is comfortable or meaningful to the individual. Or else it is held in the right hand and the left is extended above the head palm outward. This ritual is a powerful sign with which to surroung an invocation or prayer just like the ceremonies of the Mass are signs surrounding the words of consecration. One can fell [sic] as comfortable performing the Pipe Ritual as he does the ceremonies of the Mass.
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Where learned: CANADA ; Tekakwitha Conference ; Steinmetz SJ, Paul B ; WINNIPEG ; MANITOBA
Keyword(s): AMERICAN INDIAN ; CUSTOM ; ETHNIC ; Mass ; Native American ; PRAYER ; RELIGION ; RITUAL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Ethnic: Native American
Before the prayers, say "remember man that the Pipe of your earthly life" will some day be broken. Then take bowl and stem apart and lay on coffin.
After the prayers in the ritual, then take two parts of the Pipe into your hands and say: "Through the Resurrection of Christ, the life of _____and all of us will be brought together into eternal happiness." Then in the four directions, point the Pipe to the sky and say "I am the Living and Eternal Pipe, the Ressurrection and the Life; he who believes in Me, even if he die [sic] shall live: and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die." Repeat this in each of the four direction. At the end point the Pipe to the sky and touch the Earth with the bowl.
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The informant advises that the Pipe be already filled with tobacco. This is the most powerful prayer I have experienced with the Pipe and produces a deep impression on many people.
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Where learned: CANADA ; Tekakwitha Conference ; Steinmetz SJ, Paul B ; WINNIPEG ; MANITOBA
Keyword(s): AMERICAN INDIAN ; BELIEF ; CUSTOM ; DEATH ; ETHNIC ; Funeral ; Native American ; PRAYER ; RELIGION ; RITUAL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Ethnic: Korean
Korean Burial Custom:
In Korea, burial sites are usually found on the sides of mountains with boundaries marked by two pillars. Once a year, (exact time not revealed by informant) food for deceased is borught and placed upon a platform.
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Informant believes that these particular examples reflect a Buddhist belief in afterlife and ancestor worship.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Fr Walters S J, Ted
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; BURIAL ; CUSTOM ; ETHNIC ; FOOD ; Funeral ; Korean ; RITUAL
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
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Custom/Belief
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
School Custom Concerning Dress:
Anyone who wore green and yellow to school on Thursday was considered to be "queer."
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I can recall this as being practiced while I was in grade school.
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Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): COLOR ; DRESS ; Green ; Homophobia ; HOMOSEXUALITY ; Presentation ; SCHOOL ; SLANG ; Thursday ; YELLOW
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School |
Ethnic: Belgium
Solemn Communion:
In Belgium, at the age of 12, there would be a Solemn Communion. Although they had made their First Communion at the age of 7, at this time, the children would assemble in Church to renew their Baptismal vows. there were weeklong preparations for the event. Girls wore white gowns, much in the manner of a bridal outfit. There would be a three day celebration. On the first day, the parents and godparents gathered at the child's home. The second day saw the cousins and other immediate relatives there. And on the third day, the neighbors and friends joined in the activities.
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See also F5444
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Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; 935 FIDELITY DR ; Marcischak, Mrs Helen ; PITTSBURGH
Keyword(s): Belgium ; CHILDREN ; CHURCH ; Communion ; Community ; ETHNIC ; FAMILY ; RELIGION ; RELIGIOUS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church |
Custom/Belief
Belief - Baby/Motherhood:
After delivering a baby, a woman will eat the afterbirth of an animal, so that her afterbirth delivers well.
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Where learned: HOME ; Sturtz, Barbara
Keyword(s): Afterbirth ; BELIEF ; BIRTH ; Child Bearing ; CHILDBIRTH ; Consumption ; CUSTOM ; FOOD ; Placenta ; PREGNANCY ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth |
Custom/Belief
Irregular Festival:
It is a custom in my family to have a big family gathering, celebration, reunion, and party whenever someone in the fammily has made the Sacrament of Confirmation or 1st Communion. The recipient recieves gifts and/or money from every other member of the fmaily. It roughlyparallels the Bar Matzvah of the Jewish Religion.
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Where learned: NEW YORK ; Myself ; LeRoy
Keyword(s): Celebration ; CUSTOM ; Maturity ; PARTY ; RELIGION ; RELIGIOUS ; Rite-of-Passage
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Maturity |
Belief: Luck
Wedding Luck:
If it rains on a wedding day this is good luck; if it doesn't, the couple is sprinkled with champagne.
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Where learned: HOME ; Caspers, MaryAnn
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; CUSTOM ; LUCK ; MARRIAGE ; OMEN ; SUPERSTITION ; WEDDING
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage |
Trick
Game:
A guy will tell a girl that he is a handwriting expert and will ask her for a sample of her handwriting. He will say that all he needs is something short, like her name. This is a sneaky way for him to get her name.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TRENTON ; Toepp, William ; Ray Ridge Chevrolet
Keyword(s): ; COURTSHIP ; DATING ; GAME ; Graphology ; Handwriting ; Pick-up Line ; TRICK
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Dating Courtship |
Ethnic: Ukraine
In the Ukranian village a girl would wear her hair in long braids. However, if she became pregnant while still unmarried, her hair would be cut short, symbolizing her loss of virginity.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; Klymyshyn, Eudokia
Keyword(s): Chastity ; ETHNIC ; HAIR ; MARRIAGE ; SYMBOL ; Ukraine ; UKRAINIAN ; VIRGINITY ; WEDDING ; Wedlock
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage |
Ethnic: Ukraine
In the Ukranian village, a girl would wear her hair in long braids. On her wedding day, her mother would ceremoniously unbraid it; a week later, her husband cut it off [sic].
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Based on another submission card that is by the same person, regarding something very similar, that the cutting of the hair symbolizes the loss of virginity, which may or may not be clear. See CFA # 43568 for cross reference.
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BN F545 is written in black marker above original BN [P430, F545]
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; Klymyshyn, Eudokia
Keyword(s): Consummation ; CUSTOM ; ETHNIC ; HAIR ; HUSBAND ; MARRIAGE ; Ukraine ; UKRAINIAN ; VIRGINITY ; WEDDING
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage BELIEF -- Human Being |
Ethnic: Ukranian
If an unmarried girl dies, she is buried dressed as a bride, according to Ukranian tradition.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; Klymyshyn, Eudokia
Keyword(s): BURIAL ; Chastity ; DEATH ; ETHNIC ; Female ; Funeral ; Maiden ; UKRAINIAN ; Unmarried ; YOUTH
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
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Ethnic Joke: Italian
Why couldn't Christ have been born in Italy?
There aren't three wise men or any virgins...
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; Chateau, Anne
Keyword(s): Christ ; ETHNIC ; HUMOR ; Italian ; JOKE ; Off-Color ; Stereotype ; Virgin
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery RIDDLE -- W566 |
Custom/Belief
School Belief:
In the middle of the "diag," the diagonal sidewalk bisecting the campus at the University of Michigan, there is embedded in the walk a large brass 'M.' If a freshman walks on this 'M,' it is assured that he will fail his next test.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Myself ; ANN ARBOR
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; COLLEGE ; CUSTOM ; MICHIGAN ; Student ; SUPERSTITION ; TEST ; University ; University of Michigan
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- School |
Superstition
Italian Superstition:
Our family doesn't believe this, but my grandmother and some relatives do: when a pregnant woman craves for some specific food, and doesn't satisfy this crave, she will get a beauty mark in the shape of that food somewhere on her body. My cousin has a beauty mark similar to a pork chop and her mother claims to have craved for pork.
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Original Bn [P680] crossed out and replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS ; Myself
Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; CHILD ; Craving ; ETHNIC ; FOOD ; Italian ; Old Wives Tale ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Superstition
Belief:
If a pregnant woman gets frightened and touches some part of her body, her child will be born with a birthmark on the same part of its body. The birthmark will be the same shape as the thing which frightened the mother.
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Original BN [P438] crossed out and replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Brukwinski, Anna
Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; CHILD ; FRIGHT ; Offspring ; Old Wives Tale ; PREGNANCY ; Scare ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |