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CUSTOM OF BRIDE
WHEN A COUPLE GETS MARRIED THE BRIDE WEARS OR CARRIES SOMETHING OLD,
SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, AND SOMETHING BLUE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; RESIDENCE HALLS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Wear something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue |
Date learned: 00001950S AND 00001960S
METHOD OF CURING
IF YOU HAVE A STYE ON YOUR EYE, TAKE A GOLD HOLY RING AND RUB IT
OVER YOUR EYE AND IT GOES AWAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; RESIDENCE HALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001950S AND 00001960S
MEANS OF CAUSING ILLNESS
DON'T TOUCH A TOAD CAUSE YOU'LL GET WARTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; RESIDENCE HALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001950S AND 00001960S
ANN ARBOR
ANN ARBOR IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE RECEIVED ITS NAME IN THE FOLLOWING
MANNER: FRENCH SETTLERS IN LOW TOWN NEAR THE RIVER TERRACED THEIR
SLOPES, THUS CALLED THEM ANN OF ARBOR.
Submitter comment: MKE LEARNED THIS IN GRADE SCHOOL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
ANN ARBOR
ANN ARBOR IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE RECEIVED ITS NAME IN THE FOLLOWING
MANNER: THE ORIGINAL SETTLEERS IN ANN ARBOR SETTLED NEAR BLAIN'S
PARK. THERE WAS A WOMAN NAMED ANN WHO WAS AN EASTERNER AND WHO
WANTED GRAPES, SO SHE STARTED AN ORCHID (ORCHARD?) CALLED ANN'S
ARBOR.
Submitter comment: MIKE LEARNED THIS WHEN HE WAS IN GRADE SCHOOL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
PREDICTION DIVINATION
TO SEE IF WATER IS GOOD; SPIT IN THE WATER, AND IF IT SPREADS,
THEN THE WATER IS GOOD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; RESIDENCE HALLS
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination BELIEF -- Water |
Date learned: 00001960S
SURPRISE LAKE, NEW JERSEY
THIS LAKE GOT ITS NAME IN A STRANGE WAY. SETTLERS IN THE NEXT
TOWN, WHO HAD CAREFULLY PLOTTED THE AREA, STUMBLED ONTO THIS LAKE
WHICH HAD NOT FIGURED INTO THEIR EARLIER PLOTTING--SO THEY CALLED
IT SURPRISE LAKE.
Submitter comment: LEROY PICKED UP THIS INFORMATION WHILE LIVING NEAR THE LAKE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 09-25-1967
PICKLE ROAD
THE NAME PICKLE ROAD IN OREGON, OHIO IS DERIVED FROM A STRANGE
INCIDENT: A GUY COMING DOWN A ROAD WITH A LOAD OF PICKLES RAN
INTO A CARRIAGE AND THE PICKLES WERE STREWN ALL OVER THE ROAD,
THUS, PICKLE ROAD.
Submitter comment: BRIAN LEARNED THIS FROM A FRIEND OF HIS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Means of transportation |
Date learned: 10-12-1967
NEW PROVIDENCE, NEW JERSEY
NEW PROVIDENCE WAS ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS TURKEY TOWN IN THE 17TH
CENTURY. IN THE 18TH CENTURY, A BALCONY IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
FELL DOWN DURING A SUNDAY SERVICE, BUT NO ONE WAS HURT. SINCE THE
PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH FELT THAT THIS WAS AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE,
THEY NAMED THE TOWN, NEW PROVIDENCE.
Submitter comment:
LEE LEARNED THIS WHILE LIVING IN NEW PROVIDENCE DURING HIS JUNIOR
HIGH YEARS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church |
Date learned: 09-25-1967
PONTIAC ROAD
OFF OF PONTIAC ROAD, THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN OLD HOUSE WHICH
WAS A DROP OFF STATION FOR RUNAWAY SLAVES. PONTIAC'S NAME IS
SUPPOSED TO BE DERIVED FROM THIS HOUSE.
Submitter comment:
MIKE WASN'T TOO SURE WHERE HE GOT THIS INFORMATION, BUT HE WAS
CERTAIN THAT THIS WAS TRUE.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ETYMOLOGY ; Origin ; Pontiac ; Slavery ; Slaves ; Underground Railroad
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- S478 |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN
YPSILANTI IS SUPPOSED TO BE NAMED AFTER A GENERAL WHO FOUGHT IN
THE WAR BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND TURKS.
Submitter comment: MIKE LEARNED THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
JOCKEY HOLLOW, NEW JERSEY
AT THIS PLACE, THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY UNDER WASHINGTON SPENT A
BITTER WINTER HERE. THE WINTER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WORSE THAN THE
ONE AT VALLEY FORGE. THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A LEGEND THAT THE
HOLLOW IS HAUNTED BECAUSE ALL OF THE MEN IN THE HOSPITAL DIED AND
THEIR SPIRITS GUARD THE HOLLOW. ALSO, EVERY FEBRUARY 5, SOMEONE
IS SUPPOSED TO BE KILLED THERE.
Submitter comment: LEROY LEARNED THIS WHILE VACATIONING NEAR THE HOLLOW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- February 5 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F535 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 09-25-1967
THE FLAG OF MACEDONIA
THE FLAG OF MACEDONIA IS BLACK AND RED BECAUSE THE COUNTRY'S
HISTORY HAS BEEN SHROUDED IN THE BLOOD AND DESPAIR OF THE PEOPLE.
THIS HAS BEEN LEGEND SINCE ALEXANDER THE GREAT CURSED MACEDON.
Submitter comment: JIM LEARNED THIS FROM HIS GRANDPARENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: 10-15-1967
MACEDONIA
ALL OVER THE GREEK COUNTRYSIDE, THERE ARE MANY GRAVES. THIS IS
BECAUSE OF THE MANY WARS THAT HAVE BEEN FOUGHT HERE, AND FROM
THESE GRAVES COME THE GHOST STORIES THAT THE PEOPLE BELIEVE.
Submitter comment: JAMES LEARNED THIS FROM HIS PARENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- War ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery |
Date learned: 10-10-1967
UPPER PENINSULA, MICHIGAN
THE ROCKS ON THE UPPER PENINSULA ARE CONSIDERED SACRED AND
HAUNTED. THE INDIANS BELIEVED THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIVES THERE
AND THE VEGETATION IS SPARSE. THE INDIANS ALSO FEARED THIS PLACE
BECAUSE LIGHTNING STRUCK THE ROCKS SO OFTEN.
Submitter comment: MIKE LEARNED THIS FROM HIS RELATIVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
KEEWEENAU PENINSULA
AN INDIAN LEGEND EXISTS THAT STATES THAT THE GREAT BEAVER CUT THE
CHANNEL BETWEEN THE MAINLAND AND THE ISLAND THAT EXISTED THERE.
Submitter comment: MIKE LEARNED THIS WHILE ON VACATION THERE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Abnormal in size PROSE NARRATIVE -- Mammal PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formation |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
LEGEND
THERE IS A GRAVEYARD IN MIDLAND, MICHIGAN, THAT HAS A STRANGE
VISITOR EVERY TEN YEARS. HE IS A TALL, LEAN, HOODED FIGURE WITH
LONG NOSE, SUNKEN EYES, AND BONY FINGERS. EVERY TIME HE VISITS,
HE MURDERS TWO KIDS, WHO HAPPEN TO WANDER THROUGH THE CEMETERY
AT THE SAME TIME.
HIS APPEARANCE HAS BEEN REGULAR FOR THIRTY YEARS, I.E., HE HAS
COME THREE TIMES, THE MOST RECENT BEING A FEW MONTHS BACK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. 686 Seconds / Twice / Two PROSE NARRATIVE -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery |
Date learned: 12-02-1967
LEGEND
THERE IS A LEGEND AT KISSING ROCK ON THE GROUNDS OF WEST POINT
THAT IF A FELLOW TAKES HIS HAT OFF AND THE GIRL HE IS WITH REFUSES
TO KISS HIM, THE ROCK WILL FALL AND KILL HER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 12-05-1967
FRATERNITY PLEDGE DIES
THE MEMBERS OF A FRATERNITY, AS PART OF THE INITIATION, HAD A
PLEDGE PLACED ON THE TOP OF A LADDER. TELLING HIM HE WAS ATOP
A 10-STORY BUILDING, THEY PUSHED HIM OFF. THE PLEDGE DIED OF
FRIGHT.
Submitter comment: HE SAID THAT HE SAW THIS IN A NEWSPAPER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 11-02-1967
HAUNTED HOUSE
AT FIFTEEN MILE ROAD AND JEFFERSON THERE WAS SUPPOSEDLY A HAUNTED
HOUSE. IT BURNED DOWN ONE NIGHT, HOWEVER, AND THE OWNER WAS
BURNED WITH IT.
Submitter comment: HE HEARD THIS FROM HIS FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Other Structure for Private Use |
Date learned: 11-03-1967