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TIE A STRING AROUND YOUR FINGER SO YOULL REMEMBER.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
HOLY WATER HOME
MOST CATHOLICS HAVE A PRIEST COME TO THEIR HOME
TO BLESS IT. THIS IS TO KEEP GOD IN THE HOUSE.
SIGNIFIES THAT THE PEOPLE WANT GOD TO WATCH OVER IT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: 03-02-1968
EXORCISING
MY STEPMOTHER, AN EX-SCHOOLMARM FROM A RURAL QUEBEC
VILLAGE, USED TO SPRINKLE HOLY WATER ON MY FATHER
TO EXORCISE HIM OF THE DEVIL IN HIM
WHWNEVER HR
WHEN EVER HE WOULD BECOME HEATEDLY ANGRY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): TEACHER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
HOCUS POCUS
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Expression of Fixed Form |
Date learned: 11-10-1969
BELIEF
SWEEPING UNDER THE FEET OF A
MAIDEN WILL INSURE HER OF
BEING AN OLD MAID.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Expression of Fixed Form |
Date learned: 10-14-1968
BELIEF IN MAGIC RITUAL
UPON CATCHING A MILKWEED SEED,
ONE SHOULD CUP IT IN BOTH HANDS, CLOSE YOUR
EYES TURN AROUND THREE TIMES WHILE MAKING
A WISH, AND THEN RELEASE THE SEED.
IF THE SEED BLOWS AWAY IN A
A PARTICULAR DIRECTION, INFORMANT COULD NOT REMEMBER
WHAT DIRECTION, THE WISH WILL COME TRUE.
Submitter comment:
TOLD AS AN EXAMPLE OF CHILDHOOD BELIEF
IN A CONVERSATION ON FOLKLORE.
INFORMANT NO LONGER BELIEVES IT BUT ONCE DID.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
TO MAKE A WISH COME TRUE
WHILE IN A BOAT AND GOING UNDER A BRIDGE
HOLD YOUR BREATH AND MAKE A WISH.
IF YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH UNTILL YOU GET
FROM UNDER THE BRIDGE, YOUR WISH WILL COME TRUE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU GO UNDER RAILROAD TRACKS WHEN A
TRAIN IS PASSING MAKE A WISH AND IT WILL COME TRUE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 11-28-1970
COMMUNION WISH
A GRADE SCHOOL NUN SAID THAT IF YOU
HAD A WISH THAT GOD WANTED TO COME TRUE
YOU SHOULD SAY WHILE THE HOST WAS STILL ON YOUR TONGUE
" MY FONDEST WISH IS ------ ."
Submitter comment:
IN 1959, FOR SEVEN DAYS IN A ROW, TOM'S FONDEST
WISH WAS FOR THE PIRATES TO BEAT THE
YANKEES IN THE WORLD SERIES AND THEY DID.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
IT IS SAID THAT IF YOU CATCH A SANTA CLAUS
REFERING TO THE POLLEN CARRIER OF FUZZ OF A CERTAIN WEED
YOU CAN MAKE A WISH AND IT WOULD COME TRUE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00-00-1971
HOLY COMMUNION WISH
IN THE SECOND GRADE TOM WAS TOLD IN CATECHISM
THAT IF HE WOULD CLOSE HIS EYES AND SAY
" MY FONDEST WISH IS ---
" MY FONDEST WISH IS ------ " AT THE MOMENT
HE RECIEVED COMMUNION, IF HE
HE RECEIVED COMMUNION, IF HIS WISH WAS NOT
SINFUL, IT WOULD BE GRANTED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
INDIAN PRAYER
GREAT SPIRIT GRANT THAT I MAY NOT
CRITIZE MY NEIGHBOR UNTIL I HAVE WALKED
A MILE IN HIS MOCCASINS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): CRITICIZE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NEGRO PRAYER
LORD HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU
AIN'T GWINE TO LET NUTHEN' COME MY
WAY THAT YOU AND ME CAN'T HANDLE TOGETHER.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WELL WORSHIPING
MAKE A WISH AND TOSS A COIN INTO A WELL OR FOUNTAIN
AND IT IS BELIEVED, THAT YOUR WISH WILL COME
TRUE IF NOT REVEALED TO ANYONE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: DATE NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR
A MAGICAL PRAYER
ST. JOSEPH CUPERTINO, WHO WHILE ON EARTH
WAS GRANTED TO BE ASKED AT YOUR EXAMINATION
ONLY THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU KNEW, OBTAIN
A LIKE FAVOR FOR THE EXAMINATION IN WHICH I AM
NOW PREPARING. IN RETURN I PROMISE TO TELL OTHERS
ABOUT YOU AND YOUR WORKS.
Submitter comment:
A SINCERE PRAYER TO THIS SAINT AND A "LITTLE" BIT
OF STUDYING IS GUARANTEED TO HELP ONE OUT
ON AN EXAM. LEGEND HAS IT THAT ST. JOSEPH WAS
PREPARING TO TAKE A TEST IN ORDER TO ENTER INTO PRIESTHOOD.
BEING A SLOW LEARNER HE PRAYED THAT THE
LORD WOULD HELP HIM ON THIS EXAM. THE LORD DID.
THE QUESTIONS WERE THOSE THAT HE KNEW.
HE PASSED THE TEST.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE SEEDS THAT A DANDELION GIVES OFF ARE CARRIED IN THE
WIND BY MEANS OF A LIGHT, AIRY, FUZZY METHOD.
IF A PERSON CATCHES SUCH A SEED, WISH ON IT,
AND LET IT GO SO THAT IT WOULD NEVER TOUCH
THE GROUND, HIS WISH WOULD COME TRUE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 11-15-1969
RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY
AND COME BACK ANOTHER DAY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
HEXING MULES
MR. REJAN HAD A GOOD SPAN OF YOUNG MULES THAT
HE WAS AFRAID TO SHOW OFF FOR FEAR SOMEBODY
WOULD WANT TO BUY THEM AND THEY WOULD BE HEXED.
Submitter comment: SEEMS LIKE THE EVIL EYE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Curse |
Date learned: 02-01-1971
EGYPTIAN CURSE
MAY ALL YOUR TEETH FALL OUT BUT ONE,
AND MAY THAT ONE GIVE YOU A TOOTHACHE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Curse |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN