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WHEN YOU SEE A BLACK CAT IN THE MORNING, AND HE
PASSES IN FRONT OF YOU, IT IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-03-1971
KILL A SPIDER ON FRIDAY AND YOU'LL HAVE ALL KINDS
OF BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; EAST DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 09-21-1969
KILLING A SPIDER IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-08-1967
BUTTERFLIES DENOTE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIVONIA
James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 04-03-1970
IT IS BAD LUCK TO KILL A LADYBUG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
IT'S BAD LUCK TO KILL A LADYBUG.
James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
IF SOMEBODY GOES IN ONE DOOR AND OUT THE OTHER, (THEY)
HE WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT WAS NOT SURE WHERE HE HEARD THIS, BUT HE
ADDED IT HAPPENED TO HIM ONCE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 04-18-1965
SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT WHEN VISITING, IF THEY DON'T
GO OUT THE SAME DOOR THEY CAME IN, THEY WILL HAVE
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 03-00-1968
IT IS BAD LUCK NOT TO GO OUT THE SAME DOOR YOU CAME IN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 10-01-1968
THE DOOR THAT YOU ENTER A PERSON'S HOME IS THE DOOR
YOU MUST LEAVE BY OR ELSE BAD LUCK WILL BEFALL YOU
THE REST OF THE DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 10-25-1968
ALWAYS GO OUT THE SAME DOOR YOU CAME IN. IF YOU FAIL
TO DO SO, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT FIRMLY BELIEVES THIS AND WILL NOT ALLOW
ANYONE TO EXIT A DOOR THEY DID NOT ENTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 11-07-1971
IT IS BAD LUCK TO LEAVE FROM A HOUSE IN A DIFFERENT
DOOR THAN YOU CAME IN.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S BROTHER NEVER BROKE THIS BELIEF, ALWAYS
ENTERING AND EXITING FROM THE SAME DOOR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OAK PARK
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 01-24-1972
TO LEAD WITH THE LEFT FOOT OUT OF A DOOR IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
WHEN PLAYING CARDS IT'S GOOD LUCK TO BE SITTING THE
WAY THE PLUMBING GOES (PARALLEL TO THE PLUMBING).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime BELIEF -- Bad luck Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 12-06-1967
WHEN SOMEONE IS WALKING WITH YOU, NEVER LET ANOTHER
PERSON, ANIMAL OR OBJECT PASS BETWEEN THE TWO OF
YOU. THIS IS VERY BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 11-05-1969
STEPPING ON THE "M" ON THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
DIAG IS BAD LUCK; YOU'LL FLUNK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GARDEN CITY
James Callow Keyword(s): SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WHEN YOU WALK DOWN THE STREET WITH SOMEONE ELSE,
AND YOU MEET SOMETHING OR SOMEONE, DON'T SPLIT
UP TO GO AROUND IT, BECAUSE IT WILL BRING YOU
BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 04-08-1967
IT IS BAD LUCK TO SPIN A CHAIR AROUND IN THE HOUSE.
Submitter comment: MR. MURCHISON'S MOTHER BELIEVED THIS TO BE TRUE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Number P686.2.0 BELIEF -- Bad luck Furniture (bed, table, chair, etc.) BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 07-01-1964
BAD LUCK TO SLEEP WITH HANDS BEHIND HEAD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Measure of time Sleeping BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 10-08-1965
IT IS BAD LUCK TO SIT UNDER A DOOR JAMB.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 09-27-1965