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TREE SUPERSTITION
A LONE TREE THAT IS FOUND IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD WITHOUT
ANY OTHER TREES AROUND IT IS CONSIDERED SACRED. NO ONE SHOULD
RISK CUTTING IT DOWN FOR FEAR OF EVIL HAPPENING TO HIM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-00-1970
ONION SUPERSTITION
PUT A PIN IN YOUR MOUTH WHEN PEELING ONIONS AND YOU WILL NOT CRY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-00-1970
CUCUMBER BELIEF
CUT A CUCUMBER AND RUB THE SMALL END AGAINST THE LARGE END.
THE BITTERNESS GOES INTO THE SMALL END, WHICH YOU HAVE TO
THROW AWAY BECAUSE IT GETS A FROTH ON IT. THIS ONLY HAS
TO BE DONE TO THE ONES PICKED AT THE FIRST OF THE SEASON.
BECAUSE THESE ARE USUALLY GREEN AND PICKED TOO EARLY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1 Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-00-1970
CUCUMBER BELIEF
CUT OFF THE END OF A CUCUMBER AND RUB IT IN A CIRCULAR MOTION
AGAINST THE REST OF THE CUCUMBER. THAT IS TO RUB OUT THE SMALL
END AGAINST THE LARGER. THIS TAKES THE BITTERNESS OUT.
Submitter comment:
MR. FIZZETTE'S FRENCH CANADIAN GRANDMOTHER WHO LIVES IN NEW
HAMPSHIRE ALWAYS DID THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-00-1970
THORN BUSHES
THEY BECOME MORE INVITING.
THE REASON THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THORN BUSHES IN HAWAII, IS WHEN
THE MISSIONARIES FIRST CAME TO HAWAII, THE NATIVES WORE NO
CLOTHING. IN ORDER TO GET THEM TO WEAR CLOTHES, THE MISSIONARIES
PLANTED THORN BUSHES SO THAT THE NATIVES WOULD CUT
THEMSELVES ON THEM,
AND THUS REALIZE THE NEED TO WEAR CLOTHES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 04-03-1970
CARROT BELIEF
WHEN A PERSON EATS LOTS OF CARROTS, IT IS SAID THAT HE WILL HAVE
GOOD EYES.
Submitter comment:
WHOEVER SAW A RABBIT WITH GLASSES?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
SIGNIFICANCE OF DIFFERENT FLOWERS: ROSEMARY:S-FOR REMEMBERENCE,
LILY- PURITY, VIOLET-SHY,
Submitter comment:
MY INFORMANT LEARNED THESE FROM HER MOTHER IN KENTUCKY IN HER YOUTH,
SHE SAID THERE WERE MANY MORE, BUT COULD NOT
REMEMBER THE REST.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant SPEECH -- To Be Seen |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
TREE BELIEF
IF A TREE DOES NOT BEAR FRUIT, FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE:
GO OUT IN YOUR GARDEN ONE NIGHT, PREFERABLY IN A FULL MOON
AND CARRY A SHARP KNIFE WITH YOU. TAKE THE KNIFE
AND STRIKE THE
TREE THREE TIMES. AFTER EACH CHOP, REPEAT THE WORDS, TREE
BEAR FRUIT, WITH A STERN VOICE. THE NEXT YEAR ON THAT SAME DAY,
THE TREE WILL BEGIN TO BEAR FRUIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): THREAT?
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1 Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-20-1969
TOMATO BELIEF
TOMATOS ONLY RIPEN IN THE FULL MOONLIGHT
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT CLAIMS HE WAS TOLD THIS BY HIS MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Plant |
HAZELWOOD TREE LEGEND.
THERE IS A LEGEND ABOUT THE HAZELWOOD TREE.
WHEN MARY AND JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE FLEEING TO EGYPT, THEY CAME
TO A POPLAR TREE THAT WAS BIG AND TALL AND STRAIGHT. MARY
ASKED THE POPLAR TREE TO COVER HER UP AND PROTECT HER FROM
THE RAIN. THE POPLAR TREE WOULD NOT. MARY SAID,'MAY YOU NEVER
HAVE YOUR LIMBS DOWN AND MAY YOUR LEAVES NEVER REST.
THIS IS WHY THE POPLAR TREE IS ALWAYS TREMBLING, IN WIND OR NOT.
THE NEXT TREE THAT MARY CAME TO, WAS THE HAZELWOOD TREE.
THEY DO NOT GROW VERY HIGH, ARE SQUATTY, AND ALWAYS HAVE A LOT OF
BRANCHES ON THEM. MARY ASKED THE HAZELWOOD TREE TO COVER HER AND
IT DID. SHE BLESSED THE TREE IN RETURN, SAYING? 'MAY YOU BE BLESSED
FOR ETERNITY BECAUSE YOU HAVE SHELTERED ME. MAY YOUR LEAVES BE A
MEDICINE TO PEOPLE THAT NEED YOU. HEAL THEM OF DISEASES, AND MAY
YOU GROW FRUIT FOR MANKIND AND BEASTS.' SINCE THEN THE HAZELWOOD
TREE HAS PRODUCED LOTS OF NUTS CALLED FILBERTS.
James Callow comment:
POPLAR BRANCHES REACH UP, AS IF ARMS EXTENDED IN PRAYER
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT ANIMAL
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero Food Drink -- Plant food Nut BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Plant |
PLANTING METHOD
THIS IS A COMMON METHOD USED BY INDIANS IN PLANTING TOMATOES.
A HOLE ABOUT 18 INCHES DEEP IS DUG. ABOUT HALF OF THIS HOLE IS
FILLED WITH A FEW INCHES OF GROUND, THE TOMATO SEED AND
A FINAL THIN LAYER OF GROUND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-04-1969
GARLIC BELIEF
GARLIC BUILDS UP THE BLOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-20-1969
JOB'S TEARS
THIS CHARM MAKES THE LIVING INVISIBLE TO EVIL SPIRITS.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT IS INTERESTED IN GARDENING AND HAS MENTIONED IT SEVERAL TIMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PLANTING BELIEF
WHENEVER SOMETHING IS TRANSPLANTED IN THE LATE SUMMER OR FALL
OF THE YEAR, IF OATS ARE PUT AROUND THE ROOTS OF THE PLANT, TO
KEEP THEM WARM, IT WILL SURVIVE THE WINTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Measure of time Season |
Date learned: 10-26-1969
GET RID OF THOSE BLACK MUSHROOMS
BOIL MUSHROOMS WITH A COIN AND IF THE COIN TURNS BLACK, THE
MUSHROOMS ARE POISONOUS.
Submitter comment:
WE WERE STUDYING ABOUT MUSHROOMS IN MY EDUCATION CLASS, AND
DR. THORDEN MADE THIS STATEMENT IN A JOKING WAY, SO
I WROTE I DOWN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): TOADSTOOLS/ UNSAFE PRACTICE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Plant |
TREE BELIEF
TREES WHICH BEAR FRUIT WILL BEAR BETTER FRUIT IF ONE DRIVES A NAIL
INTO THEM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): IRON?
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-20-1970
DANDELION BELIEF
MAKE A WISH AND BLOW ON A DANDELION THAT HAS GONE TO SEED
AND THE SEED WILL CARRY THE WISH TO THE FOUR WINDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT WEED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
CORN BELIEF
A BELGIAN FRIEND, RENE CODDERS, TOLD MY HUSBAND
CORN IS FOR THE ANIMALS NOT THE PEOPLE.
Submitter comment:
A BELGIAN FRIEND, RENE CODDENS, TOLD MY HUSBAND THIS, AND
HE WILL NOT EAT CORN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT VEGETABLE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
SPINACH BELIEF
SPINACH IS THE BROOM OF THE STOMACH, FOR IT CLEANSES AND PURIFIES
THAT ORGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): METAPHOR
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUR LOVER AND YOU.
IF YOUR SWEETHEART SENDS YOU YELLOW ROSES, IT IS A SIGN THAT LOVE
IS FADING. IF YOUR SWEETHEART SENDS YOU RED ROSES, IT IS A SIGN
OF HIS STEADY LOVE FOR YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): COLORS PLANTS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Color SPEECH -- To Be Seen |
Date learned: UNKNOWN