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BELIEF

IF YOU EAT A LOT OF GARLIC YOU'LL RID YOURSELF OF TAPE WORMS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): FOOD ; TAPEWORMS

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Plant

Date learned: 03-05-1972

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"CONFUCIUS SAY:"

MAN WHO FARTS IN CHURCH WILL SIT IN HIS OWN PEW.

Where learned: DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): SLANG: PEW FOR STENCH

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation

Date learned: CA00001972

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Wedding Custom

At all traditional weddings it is common for the guests and family of the groom to sit on one side of the church (room, etc) and for the guests and family of the bride to sit on the other side.

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Keyword(s): Bride ; CHURCH ; CUSTOM ; FAMILY ; FRIENDS ; Groom ; Pews ; SEPARATION ; Side ; Sit ; tradition ; WEDDING

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage

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Saying

Was that in the right church but the wrong pew?

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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Hibbitts, Mrs Rowena

Keyword(s): CHURCH ; Pew ; Saying

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Vocabulary

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CHIPEWYAN ESKIMO

THEY DO NOT KILL WOLVES OR WOLVERINES BECAUSE THEY ARE
POWERFUL SPIRITS.

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MARQUETTE ; Bozin, Colleen

Keyword(s): ANIMALS ; BELIEF ; Chipewyan ; Cultural ; Eskimo ; Inuit ; Kill ; Native Indian ; Wolverines ; Wolves

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business

Date learned: 03-00-1968

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