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CUSTOM
IN SPAIN WHEN A MAN PASSES OR SEES A YOUNG, PRETTY WOMAN, HE KISSES
AT HER TO SHOW HIS DELIGHT AND PAY A COMPLIMENT TO HER.
Where learned: SPAIN
Keyword(s): SPAIN KISS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-07-1970
MOTHER AND CHILD
THE CHURCH OF ST. LUKE IN BOLOGNA, ITALY HOUSES THE FAMOUS
JEWEL STUDDED PICTURE OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD WHICH IS
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN PAINTED BY ST. LUKE. A GREAT MANY MIRACLES
ARE ATTRIBUTED TO IT.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MARYGROVE COLLEGE ; DETROIT ; McKenna, Celeste
Keyword(s): BALOGNA ; Jewel ; Madonna ; PAINTING ; Patron ; Picture ; Saint ; Saint Luke
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 00001968 (FALL)
A LOCAL LEGEND ABOUT DEVIL WORSHIP IN VERACRUZ
A COMMON STORY IN VERACRUZ IS ABOUT A PRISON FOR WOMEN WHERE THE
DEVIL IS WORSHIPPED. IN THIS PRISON IS A LARGE MURAL OF THE DEVIL
AND HIS EYES GLOW; AND IF YOU PUT A CIGARETTE IN
HIS MOUTH HE'LL SMOKE IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): PAINTING
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 04-00-1980
SIGNATURES
YOURS TILL WINDOWS HAVE PANES
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP ; PROMISE ; PUN
James Callow Keyword(s): PAIN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
RIDDLE
WHY DID THE LITTLE RED HOUSE CALL FOR A DOCTOR?
BECAUSE IT HAD A WINDOW PANE.
Where learned: HOME ; 2319 TROMBLEY
Keyword(s): CONUNDRUM
James Callow Keyword(s): PUN ON PAIN
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-05-1967
IT IS NOT THE FALL THAT HURTS;
IT IS THE SUDDEN STOP.
Submitter comment:
TOLD TO THE INFORMANT BY HER
FATHER. NOT SURE OF THE DATE.
Keyword(s): PAIN
James Callow Keyword(s): HUMOR
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
IT'S BETTER THAN A POKE IN THE EYE WITH A SHARP STICK.
Submitter comment: FROM - UNCERTAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
Keyword(s): PAIN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 00001964(SUMMER)
Frogs and Pain
Years ago, people had rainbarrels. They would use the water for many purposes. With this old aunt of mine, she kept frogs in this rainbarrel. (If anyone asks, there were floats of cork in the rainbarrel that the frogs could hop on; they can't stay in the water all the time of they'd drown.) She had a good reason for it, too!
Because she was tiny and worked very hard, she had a weak back. When she would get a severe backache, she would send her son out to the rainbarrel to get a frog. Then her son would put the frog in her girdle. Now, she was tiny and wore a girdle for back support. Wherever the pain was, the frog would go and it would sit right where the pain was. When the frog died, the pain was gone. (It took about 15 minutes for the frog to die.) The frog would take the pain away!
Submitter comment:
[Question by Collector:] How did the frog know where the pain was?
[Answer by Informant:] The frog always goes to where the pain is localized. This never failed to work with her and all her children do the same. Men do the same with a tightly wrapped sheet around their backs in stead of a girdle.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Wahl, Mrs Frank
Keyword(s): ANIMAL CURE ; BACKACHE ; CURE ; FROG ; Girdle ; MEDICAL ; Medicinal ; PAIN ; Pain Remedy
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Proverb
What you don't know won't hurt you
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): Hurt ; IGNORANCE ; IGNORANCE ; Insight ; Knowledge ; PAIN ; Protection
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Play on Words
Masochist:
There once was a masochist who was starved for affliction.
Submitter comment:
Heard it from a friend.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional - Do Not File Yet.
Where learned: D'Anna, Ben
Keyword(s): Masochist ; PAIN ; PUN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Custom: Holiday
IN THE CENTER OF THE TOWN, THE UNATTACHED MEN WALKED
AROUND THE PLAZA COUNTER-CLOCKWISE, WHILE THE UNMARRIED
GIRLS WALKED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. OCCASIONALLY,
THE GIRLS WILL REST ON OVERLOOKING BALCONIES, FROM
WHICH THEY WILL THROW SMALL DARTS TRAILING COLORED
STREAMERS. AFTER THE PARADE, THE MAN IS ENTITLED
TO VISIT ONLY BALCONIES DECORATED IN THE COLORS MATCHING
THE STREAMERS HE HOLDS.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated and Motifs added / 02-28-2011 / TRD
Where learned: Magazine
Keyword(s): Balcony ; COURTSHIP ; Dart ; ETHNIC ; Female ; Flirtation ; Male ; Parade ; Ribbon ; Spain ; Spanish ; Streamer ; Streamers
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Typical Elements of a Festive Pattern |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Yours till the windows have pains.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; Pains ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Signature ; VERSE ; Windows ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Expression
Paint the town red, or, go out on the town.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; ; Shearer, Alan
Keyword(s): COLOR ; Entertainment ; Expression ; Language ; Out ; Paint ; Red ; Saying ; Term ; Town
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
IF A PREGNANT WOMAN STEPS OVER HER HUSBAND DURING THE
FIRST MONTHS OF PREGNANCY, HE WILL BEAR THE LABOR PAINS.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI ; Griffin, Ida ; Deovelente Road
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; HUSBAND ; Labor ; PAIN ; PREGNANCY ; Step ; TRANSFERENCE ; Wife
James Callow Keyword(s): COUVADE ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 06-21-1973
EXPECTANT MOTHERS SHOULD SLEEP WITH A PAIR OF OPEN
SCISSORS UNDER THEIR MATTRESS TO HAVE AN EASY
BIRTH AND A HEALTHY CHILD.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Lipford, Allena
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; PREGNANCY ; SCISSORS
James Callow Keyword(s): CUTTING THE PAIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Use of object for determining future of young P864.3 |
Date learned: 10-13-1973
PAINS IN THE SIDE ARE MOST PROMPTLY RELIEVED BY THE
APPLICATION OF MUSTARD.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Dillon, Martha Joslin
Keyword(s): AILMENT ; CURE ; HEALTH ; Mustard ; PAIN ; REMEDY ; Side
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 07-09-1973
WHEN YOUR CORNS HURT, BAD WEATHER IS COMING.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Terry, Jane Greenwood
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; CORNS ; Hurt ; PAIN ; PREDICTION ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Feet, toes, toenails BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 06-25-1973
Riddle
Flour of England, Fruit of Spain-
Met together in a shower of rain.
Put in a bag and tied round with a string-
If you'll tell me this riddle
I'll give you a ring.
Answer: Plum Pudding
Data entry tech comment:
Entry by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Felderman, Roberta ; Normandy
Keyword(s): England ; Language ; Plum Pudding ; RHYME ; RIDDLE ; Spain
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- True Riddle |
HOME CURES
THE FOLLOWING CURE IS GOOD FOR BODILY ACHES AND PAINS.
SOAK BREAD IN MILK AND PLACE IT ON THE AFFLICTED AREA.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LINCOLN PARK
Keyword(s): Affliction ; AILMENT ; BREAD ; CURE ; Curing ; Homeopathy ; Milk ; PAIN ; Relief ; REMEDY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-03-1972