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STRETCHING THE LOG
BACK IN POLAND, MANY YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A FARMER WHO WAS
BUILDING A BARN. HAVING CUT ONE OF THE LOGS TOO SHORT, THE
FARMER CALLED TO HIS NEIGHBOR TO BRING HIS OXEN. THE TWO
FARMERS HITCHED BOTH OF THEIR ANIMALS TO THE SHORT LOG AND
PULLED IT UNTIL IT WAS THE RIGHT SIZE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT IS 81 YEARS OLD.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Mammal PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Wood Gourd ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Animal housingBarnPen |
Date learned: 01-20-1968
THE IRISH BELIEF IN LITTLE FAIRY-LIKE CREATURES WHO SEEM
TO CORRESPOND TO THE AMERICAN FAIRY GODMOTHERS. EACH
OF THESE LEPRECHAUNS IS BELIEVED TO OWN HIS OWN POT
OF GOLD.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome |
Date learned: 11-02-1967
THERE WAS A STORY AT OLIVET COLLEGE ABOUT THE FRESHMAN
ENGLISH PROFESSOR WHO GRADED EXAMS BY THROWING
THEM DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS; THE "A'S" WERE ON
THE TOP STEP, THE "A-'S" ON THE NEXT, ETC.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; OLIVET
Keyword(s): ACADEMIC JOKES
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being |
Date learned: 12-00-1971 ; 00-00-1960
THE RUBY, THE JULY BIRTHSTONE, IS A SYMBOL FOR
PASSION.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- July BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 11-23-1967
THE TOPAZ, THE NOVEMBER BIRTHSTONE, IS A SYMBOL FOR
CHEERFULNESS.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F110 BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 11-08-1967
ANOTHER POPULAR MYTH IS THAT OF THE OWL. THE OWL
IS HARDLY ONE OF THE WISEST ANIMALS.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU EAT A LOT OF CARROTS YOU WILL HAVE CURLY
HAIR.
Submitter comment: SOURCE: FRIEND
Where learned: NOT GIVEN ; DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
EVERY TIME MY KNEES HURT ME SO BADLY THAT I CANNOT
STAND, I KNOW IT IS GOING TO RAIN. AND WHEN I
CANNOT KNEEL THERE IS GOING TO BE A TERRIBLE STORM.
Where learned: HOME ; DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Pains |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WHEN YOU CUT GRASS BEFORE A STORM, LIGHTNING WILL
STRIKE YOUR HOME.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HER PARENTS, WHO ARE
OF IRISH DESCENT.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Use of Object Plant BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Human condition and activities |
Date learned: 03-31-1967
IF YOU ACCEPT SOMETHING SHARP AS A GIFT FROM SOMEONE
YOU MUST PAY THEM A PENNY FOR THE PRESENT TO AVOID
A FIGHT WITH THAT PERSON. IF YOU DON'T, IT WILL
CUT OFF THE FRIENDSHIP.
Submitter comment:
MRS. MALONY LEARNED THIS WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. SHE
WAS BORN AND RAISED IN IRELAND.
Where learned: DETROIT ; RECTORY ; IRELAND ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; HOLY NAME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Good luck P881.18 |
Date learned: 02-19-1967
IF YOU BUY A PIECE OF PORK RIND, YOUR WARTS WILL GO AWAY.
AS THE PORK ROTS, SO DOES THE WART.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-15-1970
IF A PERSON HAS A WART HE IS TO PLACE A THIN SLICE OF FELS
NAPTHA SOAP ON IT AND COVER THE AREA WITH A BANDAGE. THIS
WILL REMOVE THE WART.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
James Callow Keyword(s): POULTICE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-26-1969
BREAK THE STEM OF A MILKWEED PLANT AND POUR ITS JUICE ON A
WART. THE GROWTH WILL DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
RUB THE WART WITH CASTOR OIL FOR A COUPLE DAYS AND THE WART
WILL DISAPPEAR.
Submitter comment: FROM GRANDPARENTS.
Where learned: DETROIT ; GRANDPARENTS ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU HEAR A DOG CRY AT NIGHT, SOMEONE HAS DIED.
Submitter comment:
FR. MALONY LEARNED THIS FROM HIS MOTHER, AT HOME,
WHO IS OF IRISH DESCENT.
Where learned: DETROIT ; RECTORY ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; HOLY NAME
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-19-1967
IF A DOG HOWLS IN THE NIGHT, IT IS A SURE SIGN THAT
SOMEONE HAS DIED.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT MADE PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE
CHARACTERISTIC OF HOWL WHEN TOLD THAT OTHER VARIANTS
HAD BEEN COLLECTED WHICH INCLUDED SUCH THINGS AS
CRYING, OR YELLING, ETC.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 03-31-1967
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MONDAY IS QUEER DAY FOR QUEERS AND THEY SHOW THIS
BY WEARING GREEN.
THURSDAY IS QUEER DAY FOR NORMAL PEOPLE, AND THEY SHOW
THIS BY WEARING GREEN.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS TOLD TO ME IN A CAR AS WE WERE DRIVING
HOME FROM SCHOOL.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): HOMOSEXUALS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: 09-19-1969
A LITTLE GIRL WHILE CROSSING DECOSTA STREET, WAS HIT
BY AN ONCOMING CAR. ALL THE PARTS OF HER BODY WERE
FOUND EXCEPT HER LEFT ARM. FROM THAT TIME ON, ANYONE
DRIVING OVER THAT SPOT HEARS A KNOCKING SOUND UNDER
THE CAR. THIS KNOCKING SOUND IS SAID TO BE THE
LITTLE GIRL.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.13 |
Date learned: 02-02-1970
OMEN
HICCUPS MEAN SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.8 |
Date learned: 09-20-1969
AS CHILDREN, WE BELIEVED THAT IF ONE SNEEZED
FIVE TIMES CONSECUTIVELY, HE WOULD DIE.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.8 |
Date learned: 12-00-1972