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LUCK
MONEY ON THE WOOD MAKES THE BETTING GO GOOD.
Submitter comment:
HE ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS AND USES THIS SAYING WHEN HE IS
GAMBLING.
Where learned: SOUTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief |
Date learned: 02-15-1971
PARODY SUNG TO THE TUNE OF " PRETTY BABY "
EVERY PARTY NEEDS A POOPER
THAT'S WHY WE INVITED YOU...
PARTY POOPER, PARTY POOPER}}}
Submitter comment: WE'D SING THIS AT ANY LULL IN A PARTY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, DEPENDING UPON HOW A GIRL WEARS HER FLOWER,
SIGNALS THE DEGREE OF HER AVAILABILITY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; 109 SOUTH QUAD
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
AUTOGRAPH BOOK JOKE
TO PUT INTO AN AUTOGRAPH BOOK THE CLOSING, "LOOK IN THE CORNER".
THEN, WHEN THE DUPE LOOKS INTO THE CORNER, HE READS, "ONLY FOOLS
LOOK IN THE CORNER".
Submitter comment:
THIS IS AN AMERICAN JOKE THAT RAY HEARD IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AT ST. MICHAEL'S IN SOUTHFIELD.
Where learned: SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion Z210 |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
SUPERSTITION
IF YOUR PALM ITCHES, YOU ARE GOING TO GET MONEY FROM
SOMEONE.
Where learned: SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Measure of quality Monetary systemMoneyWealth BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching hands and feet |
Date learned: 00001970S
SUPERSTITION
IF YOUR EARS ARE RINGING, SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU.
Where learned: SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | 842 Ringing ears / buzzing / hot, burning BELIEF -- Body part Senses Ears, noise in ear BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00001970S
SUPERSTITION
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, YOU ARE GOING TO KISS A FOOL.
Where learned: SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Body part Senses Nose BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
PROVERB
DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.
Submitter comment: THIS WAS MY FATHER'S PHILOSOPHY ON LIFE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
IT IS SAID THAT IF A WOMAN IS PREGNANT
AND DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE MORNING SICKNESS, WHAT SHE DOES IS WAIT
UNTIL HER HUSBAND GOES TO SLEEP AND CRAWL ACROSS HIM WITHOUT
HIM KNOWING AND HE WILL BEAR ALL THE SICKNESS.
Where learned: SOUTH CAROLINA
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
IF YOU STEP ON A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK YOUR MOTHER WILL HAVE
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: SOUTH CAROLINA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 04091984CA
A MAN IS OLD AS HE'S FEELING, A WOMAN
AS OLD AS SHE LOOKS.
Submitter comment: SHE BELIEVED IT THEN AND NOW.
Where learned: SOUTH CAROLINA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1965 ; 00-00-1985
WHEN THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR NOSE ITCHES,
A MAN WILL COME TO YOUR HOUSE;
WHEN THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR NOSE ITCHES,
A LADY WILL COME.
Submitter comment: SHE SAYS IT HAS HAPPENED FREQUENTLY.
Where learned: SOUTH CAROLINA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose |
Date learned: 00-00-1945 ; 00-00-1985
BELIEF: SUPERSTITION
WHEN WALKING ALONGSIDE SOMEONE, DON'T LET ANYTHING GET BETWEEN YOU.
EVERYONE SHOULD WALK ON THE SAME SIDE WHEN AVOIDING AN OBJECT.
OTHERWISE YOU'LL GET BAD LUCK
Where learned: NOT INCLUDED ; MAINE ; SOUTH PORTLAND
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 11-05-1971
I WAS OVER MY COUSIN'S HOUSE EATING PIZZA
AND I GOT INDIGESTION VERY BAD, SO BAD
THAT THEY HAD TO TAKE ME BACK TO MY GRAND-
MOTHER'S HOUSE. WHEN I STEPPED INTO THE HOUSE
THE PAIN WENT AWAY LIKE MAGIC. I THINK IT
WAS BECAUSE MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE WAS SO
FULL OF GOD AND RELIGION THAT GOD TOOK THE
PAIN AWAY.
Submitter comment: MY GRANDMOTHER IS VERY GOOD AND RELIGIOUS
Where learned: SOUTH CAROLINA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Curer |
SUPERSTITION
IF YOU EAT THE CRUST OF THE BREAD, IT WILL MAKE YOUR
HAIR CURLY.
Submitter comment:
MY FATHER WAS ALWAYS TOLD THIS BY HIS MOTHER. HE THINKS THAT
HE WAS TOLD THIS SO HE WOULD NOT WASTE BREAD, BUT ALSO
CONTENDS THAT THE WAVE AT HIS HAIRLINE COMES FROM FOL-
LOWING THIS.
Where learned: SOUTH DAKOTA ; YANKTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
GHOST STORY
TWO COUSINS (OR MAYBE GREAT-UNCLES) WERE DRIVING A WAGON HOME
FROM A PARTY. IT WAS SPRING, AND IN A VERY IRISH COMMUNITY
WHICH HAD PROBLEMS WITH SPIRITS. OCCASIONALLY, PEOPLE WOULD
SEE LIGHTS (WILL-O-WISPS) OVER GRAVES. THE TWO MEN NOTICED LIGHTS
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE LIGHTS FOLLOWED THEM CLOSER AND CLOSER.
THE FASTER THEY WENT, THE FASTER THE LIGHTS WENT AND THE CLOSER THEY
FOLLOWED. THE LIGHTS WERE INDISTINCT, GREENISH-GLOWING, MOVING
LIGHTS. THE MEN MADE THE HORSES RUN, BUT THE FASTER THE HORSES
RAN, THE FASTER THE LIGHTS FOLLOWED. AS THEY WENT DOWN THE HILL
PAST THE CEMETERY NEAR THE HOUSE, THE LIGHTS DISAPPEARED.
Submitter comment:
CONTEXT: FATHER HEARD THIS FROM HIS FATHER, ROY J. SMITH, TELLING
GHOST STORIES.
Where learned: SOUTH DAKOTA ; YANKTON
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Fire |
AN OLD SAYING: TAKE A GUN AND SHOOT IT IN THE AIR. IF NONE OF
THE BULLETS COME DOWN AND KILL YOU, YOU ARE A LUCKY PERSON. IF
ONE DOES KILL YOU, YOU ARE A STUPID PERSON FOR TRYING.
Where learned: SOUTH DAKOTA
James Callow Keyword(s): HUMOR
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Good luck PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
THERE WAS A FAMILY WE MET IN 1973 IN SAO PAULO.
THEY HAD MOVED INTO A HOUSE THAT ALWAYS HAD BAD LUCK.
ALL THE LOCAL PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE KNEW ABOUT THE BAD
LUCK WITH THIS HOUSE. THEY COULD NEVER KEEP A MAID
FOR VERY LONG. THEIR CHILDREN WERE ALWAYS SICK AND
HAVING PROBLEMS. THEY LIVED WITHOUT A MAID FOR
THREE YEARS. AFTER HAVING ALL THESE PROBLEMS THEY
FINALLY HIRED A WITCH FROM THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO
COME IN AND EXORCISE THE HOUSE. AT SEVEN IN THE
EVENING A LADY COMES WITH HER FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD
DAUGHTER. THE WHOLE FAMILY WAS HOME. THE WITCH
STARTS PERFORMING A RITUAL AND CHANTING AND THE
DAUGHTER WENT INTO A TRANCE. THE DAUGHTER THEN
TOOK ON THE IDENTITIES OF THREE MEN AND THREE WOMEN
WHO HAD LIVED IN THE HOUSE AT DIFFERENT TIMES. SHE
REINACTED EACH PERSONALITY. HER VOICE SOUNDED LIKE A
MAN'S VOICE AT TIMES WHEN SHE TOOK ON A MAN'S
PERSONALITY. THIS LASTED FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
AT FOUR IN THE MORNING THE GIRL STARTED
VOMITTING AND WENT INTO SOME SORT OF CONVULSIONS.
ABOUT AN HOUR LATER THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
LEAVE SAYING THAT THE HOUSE HAD BEEN CLEANSED OF
ALL THE EVIL SPIRITS. AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING
A MAID CAME TO THE DOOR LOOKING FOR WORK. EVER
SINCE THEN THEY HAD NO MORE HOUSEHOLD PROBLEMS
OR TRAUMAS AMONG THE FAMILY. THE MAID THAT CAME
ON THAT DAY THE WITCH HAD BEEN THERE STAYED.
THE MAN THAT LIVED IN THE HOUSE WITH HIS FAMILY
WAS THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF EASTMAN KODAK.
Where learned: BRAZIL ; SOUTH AMERICA ; SAO PAULO
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Witch Shaman PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1973
This was a story told to the informant by his father when he
was a young child. This boy prayed to the Lord for three
dollars. He told the Lord that it was for three reasons. The
first was for himself, the second dollar was for the poor and the
third dollar was for the church. So he got the three dollars. He
went to the Lord in prayer again and told the Lord he was
grateful for the money and told the Lord what he did with the
money. He put one of the dollars in his left pants pocket for
himself, the second one for the church was put in his right pants
pocket and he told the Lord that he had to know how poor he was,
so he put the third dollar in his back pocket. He later went to
the store for some liquor and when he went to pay all three
dollars were gone, but he did find three holes in his pockets.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 02-07-1992
APRIL FOOL'S DAY PRANK
A POPULAR APRIL FOOL'S JOKE IN GRADE SCHOOL IS TO SWITCH A TEACHER'S
DESK FOR A STUDENT'S DESK. WHEN THE TEACHER WALKS INTO THE ROOM,
THE CLASS TROUBLE MAKER IS CONDUCTING CLASS.
Submitter comment:
THIS HARMLESS APRIL FOOL'S DAY PRANK WAS FIRST LEARNED BY THE
COLLECTOR IN TAYLOR, MICH. IN 1970. THIS IS A ROLE-REVERSAL
TECHNIQUE BETWEEN THE CONVENTIONAL ROLES OF STUDENT AND TEACHER.
WITH THE ADDITION OF THE CLASS TROUBLE MAKER, IT SEEMS THAT THE
JOKE WOULD HAVE A HIGHER IMPACT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; USA ; SOUTHGATE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- April 1 April Fools CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- April 1 (April Fool's Day) CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 10-00-1980 ; 00-00-1970