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When walking down the sidewalk, don't walk on the cracks or
you will turn into the ugliest girl in the school. We used
to play this walking to elementary school.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 00-00-1975
TRUE FRIENDS ARE LIKE DIAMONDS--
PRECIOUS AND RARE.
FALSE ONES ARE LIKE LEAVES--
FOUND EVERYWHERE.
Submitter comment:
THIS USED TO BE ONE OF MY PEN PALS (1957). THIS WAS
ONE OF HER CLEVER SAYINGS.
Data entry tech comment: OFTEN FOUND IN AUTOGRAPH BOOKS.
Where learned: Wyoming ; ROCK SPRINGS
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP JEWELS ; METER: TROCHAIC ; QUATRAIN FUNCTION AUTOGRAPH VERSE ; RHYME: MASCULINE, ABCB
James Callow Keyword(s): AUTUMN LEAVES SCATTERED EVERYWHERE--AMA BARR
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
RIDDLE
Q: WHAT HAS A RED, GREEN AND WHITE HOUSE WITH LITTLE BLACK
PEOPLE INSIDE?
A: A WATERMELOM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BUILDING (Q) ; EATABLES (A) ; METAPHORICAL ; PERSONS (Q) COLOR
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- True Riddle |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
Before you move into a new house you should have it
blessed. It is supposed to bring bad luck if you don't.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 01-00-1979
To keep bad spirits away, make a necklace out of garlic
and onions and keep it on your pillow.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 01-00-1978
My parents bought a statue at a little market in Aruba.
There, it is customary to carry on the tradition of carving.
Ours is a black lady wearing a turban on her head with her
eyes closed. She is made out of mahogany. She looks so
peaceful that we wonder if she isn't a goddess to the
people in Aruba.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Art Craft ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Wood Gourd BELIEF -- Gods |
Date learned: 03-00-1988
Red Rover
We had a catwalk next to my house and two people used to
stand at each end. The people at the opposite end would
yell, "Red rover, red rover, send Sherri right over."
I would then have to run to the other end as fast as possible
or the person at the end I came from could try to catch me
after ten seconds.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Racing Chasing Fighting |
Date learned: 01-00-1977
Witch
This is played on the front lawn. Someone is the witch
and must count to ten before turning around. The side of
the house is home base. The object is to try to get to
the rock on the boulevard before being caught by the witch.
If caught, that person now must be the witch.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Racing Chasing Fighting |
Date learned: 06-00-1978
Four Square
The game is played in the street. Each of four people must
stand in a square. One person hits the ball to any of the
other three people he chooses. The object is to hit the
ball so people will be knocked out of the game. The last
remaining person is the winner.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 01-00-1975
Marco Polo
We used to play this game in my neighbor's pool. Whoever is
"it" yells Marco, and all others in the pool must say Polo.
The object is to stay away from the aggressor. The person
who is it has his eyes closed and must keep them that way
until he catches someone in the pool.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Water Ice Snow |
Date learned: 01-00-1976
Ring Around the Rosie
Ring around the rosie,
Pocket full of posie,
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down!
Submitter comment:
The first three lines of this rhyme are sung while
the participants are holding hands and turning clockwise
in a circle. For the last line, all of the children fall
down on the grass and giggle.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 01-00-1977
Late Last Night
Late last night, when we were all in bed,
Ole Lady Leary took her lantern to the shed,
The cow kicked it over, and blinked her eye and said,
There'll be a hot time in the ole barn tonight,
Fire! Fire! Fire!
Submitter comment: This was a song sung on the playground at my elementary school
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Good humor Jest |
Date learned: 00-00-1976
Light as a Feather
I first learned this game while at a slumber party.
This game is best played in the dark with 2 or more
people.
One person lies in the middle of the floor on his/her
back with their arms at their sides, as if in a
coffin. The remaining people gather around the person
lying on the floor and place their index fingers
under them as if they were going to pick them up.
One of the people gathered around begins to tell a
story in which the person lying down has died. The
person lying down is supposed to concentrate very
hard and imagine their own death and dying. The
object is to get the person to concentrate so hard
that they "leave their body" and the people around
the person should be able to pick them up off
the floor with their index fingers. This should be
able to be done since the person left their body,
making it lighter.
Submitter comment:
My informant said that while she was playing it
didn't work, although someone she knew tried it
and it worked.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 00001979 ca
EASTER CUSTOM
IT IS A LONG, TRADITIONAL CEREMONY IN MY FAMILY, WHICH IS ITALIAN,
TO ASK THE BLESSING OF ALL OLDER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY ON EASTER
SUNDAY. THE FAMILY LINES UP ACCORDING TO AGE, AND THEN EACH
INDIVIDUAL, AS HIS TURN APPROACHES, KISSES THE HAND AND ASKS THE
BLESSING OF THE PEOPLE OLDER THAN HIM. HE THEN TAKES HIS PLACE IN
LINE, WITH THOSE YOUNGER THEN ( THAN ) HIMSELF DOING THE SAME, AND
ON DOWN THE LINE UNTIL THE END.
Submitter comment:
THIS HAS BEEN PRACTICED BY MY FAMILY EVERY EASTER SUNDAY FOR AS LONG
AS I CAN REMEMBER. IT IS CONSIDERED THE TIME FOR FORGIVING ALL SINS.
AND FORGETTING ALL DISAGREEMENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 14412 CAMDEN ; 48213
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday BELIEF -- Prayer |
EASTER CUSTOM
THE POLES INCLUDE THE MONDAY AFTER EASTER AS A PART OF THEIR EASTER
OBSERVANCE. ON "DYNGUS" THE BOYS UNDER TWENTY-ONE SQUIRT GIRLS WITH
WATER UNTIL THEY RECEIVE A "PISANKA", WHICH IS AN ARTISTICALLY
DECORATED EASTER EGG.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT TOLD ME THAT WHEN HER DAUGHTERS WERE GROWING UP IN
THIS COUNTRY SHE WOULD HAVE TO BRIBE THE BOYS WITH MONEY WHEN THEY
WOULD COME AROUND ON "DYNGUS" SO THEY WOULDN'T SQUIRT HER DAUGHTERS
WITH WATER.
Data entry tech comment:
DYNGUS MEANS "RANSOM" IN POLISH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5678 TARNOW ST
Keyword(s): DYNGUS DAY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Monday Dyngus |
Date learned: 02-07-1971
TOMMY, FREEDOM IS IN YOUR HOME.
Submitter comment:
POLISH: WOLNOSC TOMKU
W SWOJEM DOMKU.
THE NAME TOMMY IS USED IN THIS PROVERB BECAUSE IT RHYMES
WITH HOME. TOMMY REPRESENTS ANYONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5678 TARNOW ST ; 48210
Keyword(s): POLISH EQUIVALENT OF "A MAN'S HOME IS HIS CASTLE." ; THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS PROVERB, WHICH IS THE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 02-07-1971
EASTER CUSTOM
ON EASTER SUNDAY, POLISH VILLAGERS WOULD SPRINKLE EVERY ROOM IN THEIR
HOUSE WITH HOLY WATER--INCLUDING THE STABLE AND BARN--AS PROTECTION
FROM FIRE, LIGHTENING, OR OTHER MISFORTUNE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT STILL PRACTICES THIS CUSTOM IN HER HOME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5678 TARNOW ST ; 48210
Keyword(s): WATER
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Fire |
Date learned: 02-07-1971
Running Bases
This is a game that is played with three of four
people. You need a baseball or softball and two
baseball gloves.
Two catchers stand about 25 to 30 feet apart and
throw the ball to each other. While the ball is
being thrown the runner(s) stand by one of the
catchers. The sidewalk crack where the catcher is
standing is called the base. While the ball is in
the air the runners try to reach the opposite base.
There can't be two runners on the same base so they
must plan when the other is going to go. If either
catcher has the ball in his/her possession and
touches one of the runners while they have both feet
off the base that runner has an out. Once a runner
has three outs he/she switches to being the catcher.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 00001979 ca
Friendship pins
These pins are given to a friend to show your
friendship for each other.
What you need is a safety pin and some small colored
beads.
To make these all you have to do is put the beads
on the safety pin and close the pin. You can use
any color or as many beads as can fit on the pin.
When you receive one of these it is worn, pinned,
to the upper part of the shoelace.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress HandsFeet |
Date learned: 00001981 ca
Fruit soup
I was told about this very old Polish dish by my
father, who was told about it by his mother. This
is a dish that is only served on Christmas and
under no condition anytime else. The dish is called
fruit soup. As you can guess it is made from fruit.
When it was made no set amounts of ingredients were
ever written down. It was all by inspection. The list
of ingredients are as follows.
freeze dried apples
freeze dried plums
freeze dried apricots
freeze dried bananas
freeze dried pears
freeze dried oranges
freeze dried kiwi
prunes
prune juice
mushroom juice
All the fruits are freeze dried because if they weren't
the soup would be too sweet-- the same reason why the
prunes, prune juice, and mushroom juice are added.
As an after note. I've tasted this soup only once and
it was once too often.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Mixed preparation in liquid Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit |