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LONGEVITY
ROCKERFELLER WENT TO A NATUREOPIDIST TO FIND OUT HOW TO LIVE LONGER -
TOLD HIM TO DRINK "MOTHER'S MILK". SO HE WENT TO ALL THE HOSPITALS
AND PAID $10.00 A QUART.
Where learned: DETROIT ; LAMAR BARBER COLLEGE ; WOODWARD AVE
Keyword(s): ROCKEFELLER
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 03-16-1965
CINDERELLA
CINDERELLA, DRESSED IN YELLA',
WENT UPSTAIRS AND KISSED HER FELLA'.
Submitter comment: NOT A JUMP ROPE RHYME
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COLOR OF CLOTHES ; FELLOW YELLOW ; RHYME: AA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
I LOOK LIKE "THE WRECK OF THE HESPERS."
Submitter comment:
MY MOTHER USES THIS PHRASE TO DESCRIBE HERSELF OR ANY OTHER WOMAN
WHO IS REALLY A MESS, OFTEN, SHE SAYS THIS ON SATURDAY MORNINGS
BEFORE GETTING HER HAIR DONE.
Data entry tech comment: SPELLING ERROR*** HESPERUS***
Where learned: NOT RECORDED ; SAID AT MY HOME
Keyword(s): APPEARANCE
James Callow Keyword(s): LONGFELLOW
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 03-31-1971
LET US BE UP AND DOING WITH A HEART FOR ANYTHING,
STILL ACHIEVING, STILL PURSUING, LEARN TO LABOR
AND TO WAIT.
Submitter comment:
THIS WOMAN'S MOTHER SAID THIS EVERY MORNING WHEN SHE
WOKE HER CHILDREN UP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): LONGFELLOW?
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
Custom
Pounding a preacher is a Methodist custom of welcoming a new preacher by having a fellowship supper and at the end surprising him with the homemade gifts each person has brought.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: Harwell, H Q
Keyword(s): Covered ; CUSTOM ; Dish ; Fellowship ; FOOD ; Gathering ; GIFTS ; Homemade ; Potluck ; Pounding ; Preacher ; RITUAL ; Supper ; SURPRISE ; tradition
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church |
Custom
Fellowship Supper is a custom that Methodists have of a covered dish supper.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: Harwell, H Q
Keyword(s): Community ; Covered ; CUSTOM ; Dish ; Fellowship ; FOOD ; Gathering ; Methodist ; Potluck ; RELIGION ; RITUAL ; Supper
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church |
Poem
Feeling that the Indians had been seriously mistreated Longfellow wrote in 1854, that he had found a plan for a poem on the American Indians that was fitting to their beautiful traditions. The poem did not totally portray the indians totally accurately.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added By TRD
Where learned: New York Folklore Quarterly ; Pronechen, Joseph S ; The Making of Hiawatha
Keyword(s): AMERICAN INDIAN ; INDIAN ; Language ; LONGFELLOW ; poem ; Traditions
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Legend |
Taunt
Poet;
When somebody says something that rhymes, you say to them:
"You're a poet and don't know it, but your feet show it, because they are Longfellows."
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added By TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C730.329] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME ; McIvor, Charlotte M
Keyword(s): LONGFELLOW ; POET ; RETORT ; RHYME ; SLANG ; TAUNT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
ONE OF RESPONDENT'S NEIGHBORS YELLED AT HER LITTLE
BOY WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT. THE BOY FELL AND BROKE
HIS RIGHT FOOT AND LEG. WHEN THE BABY CAME, IT HAD
A TWISTED RIGHT FOOT AND LEG.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated on 09-01-11
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI ; Hill, Louise ; 700 Central Ave
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Broken ; Fell ; Foot ; leg ; OMEN ; PREGNANCY ; Twisted
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |