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WHEN THERE IS A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, NEVER HAVE OR
PUT THREE CHAIRS IN A ROW. ONE OF THE THREE WHO SIT
IN THEM AT THE SAME TIME WILL DIE WITHIN SIX MONTHS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-24-1968
RUB AN ONION ON A WART; BURY THE ONION WHERE WATER WILL DRIP
ON IT. THE ONION WILL ROT AND THE WART WILL DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-22-1968
IF THE GROOM SEES THE BRIDE IN HER WEDDING GOWN
BEFORE THE CEREMONY, IT MEANS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Bride and groom must not see each other BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A BRIDE PUTS A PENNY IN HER SHOE SO THAT SHE WILL HAVE A
PROSPEROUS FUTURE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Penny in shoe |
Date learned: 11-20-1970
THROWING RICE AT A WEDDING ENSURES FRUITFULNESS
OF THE MARRIAGE.
Submitter comment: FROM PAST FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Things thrown at newlyweds BELIEF -- Use of object for determining number of children or sex of unborn P863.545 |
Date learned: 11-10-1967
A RING AROUND THE MOON AT NIGHT MEANS RAINS
IN THE MORNING.
Submitter comment: SOURCE NOT REMEMBERED
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Observation of galactic or celestial bodies |
Date learned: 11-15-1967
CIRCUMCISION RITE
THE CONTINUED USE OF FLINTS AS THE INSTRUMENT FOR
CIRCUMCISION UNTIL THE 17TH CENTURY IS CONNECTED TO
THE JEWISH LILITH MYTH. LILITH IS SAID TO BE
ADAM'S FIRST WIFE WHO LEFT HIM TO BEGET CHILDREN
WITH THE DEVIL.
IN ANCIENT TIMES, WHEN A GIRL WAS BORN, THE JEWS PUT AN
"X" ON THE WALL. FOR A BOY, THEY PUT AN "O"--
TO KEEP LILITH FROM INVADING THE SPIRIT OF THE BOY CHILD.
CIRCUMCISION BY FLINT WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN ONE FELL
SWOOP, AND EVOLVED FROM THE CIRCLE ON THE WALL
SUPERSTITION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: 02-24-1968
A TEACHER I HAD IN GRADE SCHOOL ONCE TOLD US THAT
EVERYTIME A PERSON COUGHS, A NAIL IS PUT IN HIS
COFFIN AND IF THE PERSON COUGHS TOO MUCH, THERE
WILL BE NO ROOM IN HIS COFFIN FOR HIM, BECAUSE THERE
WILL BE TOO MANY NAILS IN IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 01-23-1968
A CHILD THAT PERSISTS IN SUCKING HIS THUMB WILL ONE
DAY FIND IT CUT OFF BY A LITTLE MAN THAT OWNS THE
LARGEST PAIR OF SCISSORS EVER SEEN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): SADISM
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails |
Date learned: 01-22-1968
IT IS BELIEVED THAT IF THERE IS SOMETHING YOU WANT
TO TELL A PERSON AND YOU FORGET WHAT IT IS, IT WAS
A LIE. YOU ONLY REMEMBER TO TELL THAT WHICH IS
THE TRUTH.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG MAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: 07-00-1964
IF YOU PUT A BROOM BEHIND A DOOR, AN UNWELCOMED
GUEST WILL LEAVE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED IT FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Use of Object Domestic object, wax, needle, dishware |
Date learned: 10-19-1967
AN UNUSED DECK OF PLAYING CARDS MUST BE USED FOR
TELLING FORTUNES. THAT IS TO SAY, THAT CARDS
SHOULD NEVER BE USED IN PLAYING A GAME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object Numerology, related to playing cards |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
IF YOU PLACE A TOOTH UNDER YOUR PILLOW, THE
GOOD FAIRY WILL TAKE THE TOOTH AND LEAVE YOU
SOME MONEY.
Submitter comment: FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object Human beings and their activities |
Date learned: 11-10-1967
TAKE A DAISY AND PLUCK EACH PETAL SAYING, "HE LOVES
ME, HE LOVES ME NOT" TO PREDICT YOUR FUTURE OF LOVE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of object for determining true love P861.2 |
Date learned: 04-02-1971
WHEN OPENING PRESENTS AT A BRIDAL SHOWER, THE BRIDE-TO-
BE SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT TAKING OFF THE BOWS
BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF RIBBONS BROKEN SHOWS THE
NUMBER OF CHILDREN SHE WILL HAVE.
Submitter comment:
I WAS TOLD THIS AT A BRIDAL SHOWER BY THE BRIDE-TO-BE
AND EVERYONE SEEMED AMAZED THAT I'D NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of object for determining number of children or sex of unborn P863.9 |
Date learned: 04-00-1970
THE SEVENTH SON OF THE SEVENTH SON WILL BE GIFTED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 09-26-1965
BEFORE A STORM, YOU MUST GO INTO EACH ROOM OF YOUR
HOUSE AND SPRINKLE HOLY WATER TO THE FOUR CORNERS
OF THE ROOM. THIS WILL PROTECT YOUR HOUSE FROM ANY
DANGER DURING THE STORM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Date learned: 11-20-1970
IF YOU DROP SILVERWARE, IT MEANS COMPANY IS COMING.
DROPPING A KNIFE OR FORK MEANS A MAN IS COMING,
A SPOON MEANS A WOMAN IS COMING.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT IS AN AMERICAN GIRL WHO LEARNED
THIS BELIEF FROM HER IRISH GRANDMOTHER ABOUT
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 11-17-1963 ; 00-00-1943
GIRL IN THE GLASS COFFIN AT N.D.U.
INCLOSED IN A GLASS COFFIN UNDER ONE OF THE ALTARS AT
SACRED HEART CHURCH ON THE CAMPUS OF NOTRE DAME
UNIVERSITY, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, IS THE BODY OF A
GIRL ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OF AGE. SHE IS CLOTHED IN
WHITE AND HAS A NOTICEABLE MARK ON HER THROAT.
SHE WAS A GIRL WHO BECAME A CATHOLIC AGAINST HER
FATHER'S WISHES, AND TOOK INSTRUCTIONS FOR FIRST
COMMUNION UNBEKNOWNST TO HIM. ON THE DAY SHE
RECEIVED HER FIRST COMMUNION, HER FATHER RAN INTO
THE CHURCH AND, AS SHE TURNED FROM THE RAIL AFTER
RECEIVING COMMUNION, HE STABBED HER IN THE THROAT
AND SHE DIED IMMEDIATELY.
THAT IS WHY SHE HAS THE MARK ON HER THROAT, AND WHY
SHE IS CLOTHED IN HER FIRST COMMUNION OUTFIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; INDIANA ; BIRMINGHAM ; NOTRE DAME
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 01-22-1968
GIRL IN THE GLASS COFFIN AT U.N.D.
THE GIRL IN THE GLASS COFFIN UNDER THE SIDE ALTAR AT
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY WAS AN INDIAN MAIDEN. SHE WAS
THE DAUGHTER OF A CHIEF, AND SHE WAS CONVERTED BY
ONE OF THE EARLY MISSIONARIES--ONE OF THE EARLY C.S.C.
FATHERS. HER DAD, THE CHIEF, HEARD ABOUT IT AND SLIT
HER THROAT RIGHT AFTER SHE RECEIVED HER FIRST
COMMUNION. SHE IS AN INDIAN--YOU CAN TELL FROM LOOKING
AT HER. SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE IN HER COMMUNION DRESS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; INDIANA ; BIRMINGHAM ; NOTRE DAME
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 01-25-1968