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LEGEND
THERE IS A STORY THAT ON KELLY'S ISLAND IN OHIO WHEN IN THE EARLY
1800'S THE CEMETERY WAS FIRST BEGINNING TO BE FIXED, SOMEHOW ONE
OF THE MEN WORKING ON THIS AREA GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS BOSS AND
IN HIS ANGER HE SAID THAT HE WAS GLAD HE WASN'T GOING TO BE BURIED
IN THAT PLACE.
A FEW MONTHS LATER THIS SAME MAN WAS WORKING ON A HOUSE THAT FELL
ON HIM. HE WAS THE FIRST TO BE BURIED AT THE CEMETERY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; FALSE ASSUMPTION. ASSUMPTION PROVES FALSE. ; IRONY ; PROPHECY REVERSED. WISH REVERSED. OPPOSITE COMES TRUE. ; TEMPTING FATE
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-04-1967
Superstition: Animals
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
Submitter comment:
From Friends
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Where learned: HOME ; Beattie, Cathy
Keyword(s): assume ; assumption ; Chickens ; Eggs ; Hatch
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb |
Proverb
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; McBride, Pam
Keyword(s): assume ; assumption ; Chicken ; Choices ; Egg ; Hatch
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Don't put the cart before the horse
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Keyword(s): assumption ; Cart ; EAGERNESS ; HORSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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Don't concentrate all your wealth in one area.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 2154 DICKERSON ; Verheye, Patricia
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; assumption ; Basket ; Egg ; Eggs ; Gamble ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |