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IF YOU SPILL SALT, PICK SOME UP AND THROW OVER LEFT
SHOULDER TO PREVENT BAD LUCK FROM HAPPENING.
Where learned: OHIO, ASSUMED ; Mount Clemens
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 02-00-1970
IF YOU SPILL SALT, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK UNLESS
YOU PICK SOME OF IT UP WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND AND THROW
IT OVER YOUR LEFT SHOULDER.
Submitter comment: SHE LEARNED THIS FROM A FRIEND IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 10-20-1967
IF YOU SPILL SOME SALT YOU SHOULD PICK SOME UP
AND THROW IT OVER YOUR LEFT SHOULDER TO AVOID
BAC LUCK.
Where learned: HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
SPILLING SALT BRINGS BAD LUCK, BUT THROWING IT
OVER YOUR RIGHT SHOULDER BRINGS GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 09-20-1965
IF YOU SPILL SALT ON THE TABLE, YOU HAVE TO THROW
SOME OVER YOUR SHOULDER TO GET RID OF THE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 01-26-1968
IF YOU SPILL SALT, THROW A BIT OVER YOUR LEFT SHOULDER
AND MAKE A WISH OR YOU'LL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: I'VE SEEN THE INFORMANT PRACTICE THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 03-01-1971
NEVER STEP OVER A PERSON LYING DOWN ON THE FLOOR.
IT WILL BRING HIM BAD LUCK. IF YOU HAPPEN TO
STEP OVER HIM, QUICKLY STEP BACKWARDS OVER HIM
TO REMOVE THE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
I CAN REMEMBER MY RELATIVES SAYING THIS TO ME,
IF I WAS ABOUT TO STEP OVER ONE OF MY YOUNGER
COUSINS LYING ON THE FLOOR.
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 -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 00001950S LATE
IF YOU STEP OVER ANY PART OF A PERSON (E.G., STEP-
PING OVER THEIR LEGS TO AVOID THEIR HAVING TO
MOVE THEM) WITHOUT STEPPING BACK OVER AT THE SAME
POINT, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 09-22-1969
IT IS CONSIDERED GOOD LUCK IF YOU KILL A SPIDER
GOING UP A WALL, BUT IF IT IS GOING DOWN A WALL
AND YOU KILL IT, THEN BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Wall Partition Door Window BELIEF -- Good luck Animals BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals BELIEF -- Conversions Animals |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
IF YOU CAN'T MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO, SPIT
INTO THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, THEN BRING YOUR FIST DOWN
ONTO THE PALM OF YOUR HAND HARD. THE WAY THAT THE
SPIT FLICKS IS THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object Human beings and their activities |
Date learned: 03-17-1972
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, IT MEANS DEATH OR
TROUBLE.
Submitter comment:
WHENEVER A BLACK CAT CROSS IN FRONT OF ME, I WILL
TURN AROUND AND GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: 02-12-1972
TO CURE WARTS: QUARTER A CARROT LONGWAYS, RUB IT ON THE WART
AND BURY EACH QUARTER CARROT AT EACH CORNER OF THE HOUSE AND
WHEN THE CARROT ROTS FROM THE WATER FROM THE EAVES, THE
WARTS WILL GO.
Where learned: ENGLAND ; LONDON
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION ; TRANSFER PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | 686 Fourths / Quarters BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
IF A PERSON HAS A WART OR WARTS, THEY MAY BE CURED BY
RUBBING THEM THREE TIMES OVER A WET STONE AFTER A RAIN.
WHILE RUBBING THE STONE, COUNT BACKWARD FROM THREE TO ONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-04-1969
WHEN SOMEBODY IS SWEEPING THE FLOOR, AND THEY SWEEP
AROUND A GIRL, SHE WILL GROW UP TO BE AN OLD MAID.
Submitter comment:
HER MOTHER, RAISED IN KENTUCKY, TOLD HER THIS WHEN
THE INFORMANT WAS TEN YEARS OLD.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): SPINSTER
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Measure of time Working |
Date learned: 04-18-1965
JAMAICAN SUPERSTITION
NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON THE SEA, BECAUSE IT WILL BECOME
ANGRY.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM A LADY-FRIEND FROM JAMAICA.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; JAMAICA
Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Still water Large body. |
Date learned: 01-01-1964
IF A PERSON'S RIGHT EAR WOULD RING, HE WOULD FEEL
TERRIBLE, FOR IT MEANS SOMEONE IS SPEAKING BADLY OF HIM,
BUT IF HIS LEFT EAR WOULD RING, THEN HE WOULD BE ALL
SMILES FOR A FRIEND WAS THINKING OF HIM WITH
AFFECTION.
Submitter comment: THIS IS STILL TRUE IN ITALY TODAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | 842 Ringing ears / buzzing / hot, burning BELIEF -- Body part Senses Ears, noise in ear BELIEF -- P553 |
Date learned: 11-20-1967
PUTTING ANYTHING ON INSIDE OUT, BY ACCIDENT, MEANS
YOU'RE GOING TO GET A GIFT.
Submitter comment: FROM GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 11-00-1967
TO START THE DAY "ON THE RIGHT FOOT," ONE MUST COVER
THE RIGHT FOOT FIRST AND THE LEFT ONE LAST.
Submitter comment: FROM MOTHER.
Where learned: HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 11-05-1967
THROW SALT OVER YOUR SHOULDER FOR GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM YOUTH.
Where learned: INDIANA ; South Bend
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Good luck P881.17 |
Date learned: 11-23-1967
IF YOU TURN A LOAF OF FRESHLY BAKED BREAD UPSIDE
DOWN ON A TABLE, SOMEONE WILL GET PREGNANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 01-00-1968