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Superstition
Belief:
If you're frightened during pregnancy after the 7th month the child will be born with a birth mark such as a strawberry or in the shape of a thing that produced the fright.
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Original BN [P880] crossed out. Replaced with Current Classification
Where learned: HOME ; Takacs, Elsa
Keyword(s): BABY ; BIRTH ; CHILD ; CURSE ; FEAR ; jinx ; Offspring ; Old Wives Tale ; Scare ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Superstition
Superstition:
Pregnant women should not look at strawberries because then their children will develop red blotches on themselves (which look like strawberries).
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Original BN [P740] crossed out. replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME ; Lucas, Eleanor
Keyword(s): BABY ; BIRTH ; Birthmark ; CURSE ; jinx ; Mark ; Offspring ; Old Wives Tale ; PREGNANCY ; STRAWBERRY ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Superstition: Sports
In order to keep a winning streak going for a team, the team members must not change their socks from game to game.
Submitter comment:
Belief, Predicition, Divination P880
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Reference
Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; CLOTHING ; jinx ; LUCK ; SOCKS ; SPORTS ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Superstition: Sports
Winning Streak:
It was believed to be bad luck to wash your athletic socks during a winning streak. If the coach made you wear clean ones, you always wore your dirty ones underneath those so as not to jinx the team.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [P500] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Shaw, Frederick V
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Coach ; FATE ; GAME ; jinx ; LUCK ; SPORTS ; SUPERSTITION ; Win ; Winning Streak
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion |
Superstition: Sports
Sports:
Never wash your socks while you are on a winning streak.
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Reference
Original BN [P880] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Dziuba, Doug
Keyword(s): BASEBALL GAME. ; jinx ; LUCK ; SPORTS ; SUPERSTITION ; Win
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Changing Bedrooms Number 1/ Changing Bedrooms Number 2/ Changing Bedrooms Number 3/ Changing Bedrooms Number 4/ Changing Bedrooms Number 5/ etc. etc.
Two people are jumping at opposite sides of the rope. They must switch places on every number.
Submitter comment:
Informant learned it from her friends.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out/replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME ; Koski, Janet
Keyword(s): CHILD ; Entertainment ; GAMES ; Jump Rope ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Cinderella, dressed in yella,
went upstairs to kiss a fella
how many kisses did she receive?
(Hot pepper count until she misses)
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from the neighborhood kids.
Data entry tech comment:
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out/ replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME ; Koski, Janet
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; GAMES ; Jump Rope ; Play
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750 .560 |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, go upstairs / Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say your prayers / Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn out the light / Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say goodnight.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from her friends.
Data entry tech comment:
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James Callow comment:
Original BN crossed out / Replaced with C750.560
Where learned: HOME ; Koski, Janet
Keyword(s): CHILD ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Play
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Not last night, but the night before, 24 robbers came knocking at my door. I went out (jump out of rope) to let them in (jump back in) and here's what they said to me:
"Spanish Dancer do the kicks, kicks, kicks, kicks, (jump with legs far apart)
Spanish Dancer do the splits, splits, splits, splits, (jump up with legs extended)
Spanish Dancer turn around, round, round, (turn rope)
Spanish Dancer Touch the ground, ground, ground. (touch the ground)
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from the neighborhood kids
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME ; Koski, Janet
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Entertainment ; GAMES ; Jump Rope ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Mable, Mable, set the table. Don't forget the salt, but don't forget the red hot peppers. (when "red peppers" is said, the rope is spun faster.)
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from neighborhood kids.
Data entry tech comment:
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out / replaced with current classification
Where learned: Symons, Margaret
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Superstition: Pregnancy
Prediction Belief:
If a pregnant woman looks at an ugly animal, her child may be ugly.
Submitter comment:
Prediction / Belief
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Reference
Original BN [P800] crossed out / replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME ; Popp, Minerva
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; BIRTH ; CHILD ; CURSE ; jinx ; Offspring ; Old Wives Tale ; PREGNANCY ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): Reference
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Superstition
Never cross the path of a black cat becasue bad luck will follow.
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Original BN [P752] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Myself
Keyword(s): Black ; CAT ; jinx ; LUCK ; OMEN ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Onse smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they both felt smart. Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.
Data entry tech comment:
Say three times fast.
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James Callow comment:
Pointless? - Not much of a tongue twister?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Carney, Mary
Keyword(s): FLATULENCE ; JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
Humorous Verse:
This is a retort a person should use when he says something that he shouldn't have said:
My tongue got in the way of my eye teeth and I couldn't think of what I was saying.
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Original BN [C700.328] crossed out / replaced with current classification
Where learned: Diamond, Susan
Keyword(s): Humorous ; JOKE ; Language
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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Ethnic: Irish
An Irish Retort:
An Irishman is never drunk so long as he can hold on to one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth.
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James Callow comment:
Why is this called a "retort"?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; McCully, Jim
Keyword(s): DRUNK ; ETHNIC ; Irish ; JOKE ; RETORT ; Stereotype
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. upon the slitted sheet I sit.
Submitter comment:
From Childhood
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Already typed as prose
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Gwizdala, Maureen
Keyword(s): JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, I slept upon a slitted sheet.
Submitter comment:
AS told in Holden Hall (dorm room at UofD)
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; Miller, Terri
Keyword(s): JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
Tongue Twister:
I slit a sheet, A sheet I slit, Upon a slitted sheet I sit.
Submitter comment:
This one was told to me by my mom many years ago.
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Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): HUMOR ; JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
A Tongue Twister:
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, a well be slitted sheet was it. [sic]
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Original BN [S260] crossed out / replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Tynan, Joyce ; PONTIAC
Keyword(s): HUMOR ; JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Belief: Animal
Crosses on Donkeys:
The fur on a donkey's back seems to make a dark cross length-wise. According to the informant, the cross is there because Christ rode the donkey into Jerusalem. When she told me this, another person who was present said she had always heard it was there because Mary rode on the donkey.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [P682.4, M247.3] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OAKLAND UNIVERSITY ; Schroeder, Mary Jo ;
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; ASS ; Christ ; CHRISTIANITY ; Cross ; DONKEY ; DONKEY ; Fur ; HAIR ; Jerusalem ; JESUS ; Mary ; RELIGION ; SYMBOL ; VIRGIN MARY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal |