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IF YOU HAVE NOT BLEEDED LIKE A CALF,
YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BELLOW LIKE A BULL.

Submitter comment: ( ADULTS EXPECT CHILDREN TO MAKE MISTAKES IN GROWING UP.)

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): BLED ; PREDICTION

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank
BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 09-23-1971

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PROVERB

IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARDED PIGS,
YOU'LL NEVER MAKE A GOOD PRIEST.

Submitter comment: (FROM THE TIMES WHEN PRIESTS WERE ALSO POLICE-MEN- LIKE.)

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; PREDICTION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Blason Populaire

Date learned: 09-23-1971

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KINDNESS

IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT A PERSON, DON'T SAY ANYTHING
AT ALL

Submitter comment: NONE

Data entry tech comment: THIS IS JUST A WAY OF COMMON DECENCY.

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 02-20-1968

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PROVERB

IF SPEECH WAS SILVER, SILENCE WOULD BE GOLD.

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; OBSERVATION

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY THE COLLECTOR

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PROVERB

A HOST OFFERS HIS GUEST SOME LIGHT WINE OR BEER) .

Submitter comment: (THIS PROVERB IS COMMONLY QUOTED WHEN

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 09-23-1971

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POLISH HOLIDAY, "MATKA BOSKA CZECKTOHOWA"

"OUR LADY, QUEEN OF POLAND", MAY 3RD. PAINTING OF THE LADY IS
REVERED AT THIS TIME. IT IS CALLED THE "BLACK MADONNA" AND KEPT IN
CZECKTOHOWA. IT OFTEN APPEARED IN POLISH HISTORY, BEING INVOKED IN
TIMES OF NEED, SUCH AS WAR. IT IS BLACK WITH AGE AND HAS 3 SCARS
ON THE FACE__THE RESULT OF AN INVADER'S SWORD. ON THIS OCCASION
IT BLED AND DURING GREAT SORROW WEEPS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May 3
BELIEF -- Religious hero
BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal

Date learned: 01-29-1968

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CUSTOM OF APRIL 1ST

ON APRIL 1ST A PERSON MUST WALK OUT OF HIS DOOR BACKWARDS IN THE
MORNING TO PREVENT THE APPEARANCE OF FRECKELS ( FRECKLES ) LATER
IN THE SUMMER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- April 1 April Fools
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- April 1 (April Fool's Day)
BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness

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ON FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH, CLARA'S MOTHER WILL BURN
INCENSE TO AVOID BAD LUCK.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Specific number by specific number being described
BELIEF -- Bad luck Friday the Thirteenth
BELIEF -- Conversions Friday the Thirteenth

Date learned: 09-00-1967

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IF A LEAF FALLS ON YOUR HEAD, IT'S BAD LUCK.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT GAVE NO REASON WHY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Body part Senses Head, physiognomy, face
BELIEF -- Plant
BELIEF -- Bad luck Plants

Date learned: 03-00-1971

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IT'S BAD LUCK TO COUNT THE CARS IN A FUNERAL
PROCESSION.

Submitter comment: HIS MOTHER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 07-29-1964

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ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY YOU KISS THE BLARNEY STONE FOR GOOD LUCK AND
PROSPERITY.

Data entry tech comment: ST. PATRICK'S DAY: MARCH 17

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- March 17 Feast of St. Patrick
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 F642.9

Date learned: 04-01-1971

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THREE ON A MATCH IS BAD LUCK BECAUSE WHILE THE FIRST
PERSON IS LIGHTING UP, AN ENEMY IS GETTING OUT A
GUN, WHILE THE SECOND PERSON IS LIGHTING UP, THE
ENEMY IS LINING UP HIS GUN SIGHTS, AND WHILE THE
THIRD PERSON IS LIGHTING UP THE ENEMY AIMS AND
SHOOTS THAT THIRD PERSON.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 09-23-1967

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BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES OFF ONE MATCH.

Submitter comment: HEARD IT FROM HIS FRIEND.

Data entry tech comment: REPORTED ON VETERAN'S DAY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 11-11-1967

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THREE ON A MATCH STICK IS BAD LUCK.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 10-00-1967

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THE THIRD PERSON TO HAVE HIS CIGARETTE LIT ON ONE
MATCH WILL EXPERIENCE BAD LUCK. IF THE THIRD
PERSON IS A FEMALE, SHE WILL BECOME PREGNANT.

Submitter comment: THE FIRST STATEMENT OF THE SUPERSTITION IS COMMON
IN THE OSWALD FAMILY; THE SECOND I LEARNED FROM
MY COWORKERS THIS SUMMER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Body parts and functions
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 09-20-1967

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IT IS BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES ON ONE MATCH.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 00-00-1968

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NEVER LITE THREE CIGARETTES ON THE SAME MATCH. IT
IS A SIGN OF BAD LUCK.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAYS THAT HIS GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS BELIEVED
THIS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 02-15-1971

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IT IS CONSIDERED BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES
WITH THE SAME MATCH.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 02-20-1971

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IT IS BAD LUCK TO HAVE YOUR CIGARETTE BE THE THIRD
ONE LIGHTED WITH A SINGLE MATCH.

Submitter comment: HE DOESN'T REMEMBER WHERE HE HEARD IT, PROBABLY
FROM A BOYFRIEND.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple
BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers

Date learned: 10-20-1967

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