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EVERY TIME HIS SISTER'S BOYFRIEND CAME OVER, HE
WOULD CRINGE WITH FEAR WHENEVER THE DOG CAME
NEAR HIM. HIS BELIEF WAS THAT DOGS BROUGHT
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-00-1967
NEVER CROSS THE PATH OF A BLACK CAT.
Submitter comment: THIS IS A SUPERSTITION THAT'S KNOWN TO EVERYONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-15-1971
IT'S BAD LUCK TO LET A BLACK CAT CROSS YOUR PATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-25-1969
IF YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING AND THE FIRST THING
YOU SEE IN THE MORNING IS A BLACK CAT, YOU ARE
GOING TO GET BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS BAD LUCK TO KILL A LADYBUG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
IT IS BELIEVED THAT KILLING AN ALBATROSS WILL BRING
BAD LUCK TO THE PEOPLE ON THE SHIP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD ; MARITIME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
IT IS BAD LUCK TO KILL AN ALBATROSS WHILE ON BOARD
SHIP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD ; MARITIME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-15-1968
SAILORS NEVER KILL AN ALBATROSS BECAUSE THIS WILL
BRING BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM ONE OF HER FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD ; MARITIME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-11-1971
IF YOU ARE SUNK, WHY WORRY ABOUT BEING WET?
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- V200 |
Date learned: 09-00-1967
FESTIVAL CUSTOM
THE MALAYSIANS HANG CABBAGE AND MONEY FROM TREES FOR THE DRAGON
TO TRY TO SWALLOW. IF THE DRAGON GETS A FAMILYS "POUCH" THEY
WILL HAVE A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Festival |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
KILLING AN ALBATROSS IN OPEN SEASON IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-25-1969
TO LEAD WITH THE LEFT FOOT OUT OF A DOOR IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
IF YOU WHISTLE OR SING AT THE TABLE, YOU WISH BAD
LUCK ON SOMEONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 10-03-1969
IT IS BAD LUCK FOR ACTORS AND ACTRESSES TO WHISTLE
IN THEIR DRESSING ROOMS BEFORE GOING ON STAGE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | DRAMA -- Secular BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
IF A GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE WALKING TOGETHER AND ONE OF
THEM WALKS AROUND THE TREE, THE ONE WHO WALKED
AROUND THE TREE WILL HAVE SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities BELIEF -- Bad luck Plants |
Date learned: 10-30-1968
IF YOU SEW ON SUNDAY, IT'S BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT WAS TOLD THIS BY HIS PENNSYLVANIA MOTHER
IN HIS CHILDHOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Date learned: 01-12-1967
SEEING YOUR ADOPTED SON OR DAUGHTER THE FIRST THING
IN THE MORNING IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
DO NOT EVER MOVE INTO A HOUSE IF THE CHIMNEY OF THE
HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET IS BURNING. IT WILL ONLY
BRING BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 03-03-1971
IT IS BAD LUCK FOR A COUPLE TO HAVE THEIR PICTURE
TAKEN TOGETHER. IT WILL LEAD TO A BREAK-UP IN
THE ROMANCE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): Photography
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Marriage Dating Courtship BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 03-01-1971
WHEN ANYTHING HANGS ON A DOORKNOB, BAD LUCK WILL
OCCUR.
Submitter comment: FROM HER AUNT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Wall Partition Door Window BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 00-00-1968