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ITCH ME, PINCH ME
ITCH ME AND PINCH ME WENT BOAT-RIDING. IF ITCH ME
FELL OUT THEN WHO WAS LEFT?
ANSWER: PINCH ME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; DORMS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale |
Date learned: 11-30-1970
EXPRESSION
"WELL I'LL BE A BLUE-NOSED BABOON!"
Submitter comment:
MY MOTHER REPORTS THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE FAVORITE
EXPRESSIONS OF A STUDENT OF HERS, GERRY SCOTT, WHO
COMES ORIGINALLY FROM EASTERN KENTUCKY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 09-00-1963
COUGH REMEDY
EQUAL PARTS OF WHISKEY AND LEMON JUICE AND SYRUP IN A SHOT GLASS.
Submitter comment: THIS REMEDY DOES WORK, SOMEWHAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
SLANG WORDS
THE WORD "MELLOW" MEANS SOMETHING IS ADMIRABLE, OR THOUGHT WELL OF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 10-15-1969
SLANG WORD
THE WORD "GROOVY" MEANS SOMETHING IS ADMIRED, LIKED, THOUGHT WELL OF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 10-15-1969
LEGEND
A MAN ON HORSEBACK WAS KILLED WHILE CROSSING A BRIDGE. THE HORSE
RAN OFF AND FROM THAT TIME ON WOULD NEVER SET HOOF ON THE BRIDGE.
Submitter comment: MY GRANDFATHER TOLD MY FATHER THIS STORY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 15011 MADDELEIN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B443 ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Bridge |
Date learned: 03-25-1970
PROVERB
ONE WHO TRIES TO HIDE HIS SICKNESS DIES FROM IT
Where learned: MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; TAYLOR
Keyword(s): FUNCTION ; MEDICINE
James Callow Keyword(s): MEDICAL TREATMENT ; SECRETIVE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-11-1967
LEGEND
A MAN ON HORSEBACK WAS KILLED WHILE CROSSING A BRIDGE. THE HORSE
RAN OFF AND FROM THAT TIME ON WOULD NEVER SET HOOF ON THE BRIDGE.
Submitter comment: MY GRANDFATHER TOLD MY FATHER THIS STORY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 15011 MADDELEIN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B443 ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Bridge |
CHRIST JOKE
DO YOU KNOW HOW CHRIST RECEIVED HIS NAME? WELL, WAY BACK WHEN,
THESE THREE GUYS CAME TO VISIT THE BABE WHO, AS YOU KNOW, WAS
BORN IN THIS OLD CAVE. NOW THIS CAVE WAS VERY, VERY LOW AND ONE
OF THESE THREE GUYS WAS EXTREMELY TALL. AFTER KNEELING FOR A
LONG TIME BEFORE THE BABE, THE TALL ONE, FORGETTING THE KIND OF
PLACE HE WAS IN, ROSE QUICKLY AND BANGED HIS HEAD. "JESUS
CHRIST!" SHOUTS HE. AND MARY TURNS TO JOSEPH, UPON HEARING THIS,
AND SAYS, "GEE, JOSEPH, THAT WOULD BE A BETTER NAME THAN
ARCHIBALD."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Baptism Naming rite |
Date learned: 01-06-1967
HAUNTED HOUSE
ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO, IN WEST SALEM TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA, A YOUNG
MAN SOON TO BE MARRIED BUILT A HOUSE ON BARRY ROAD FOR HIS BRIDE.
HOWEVER, WHEN THE DAY OF THE WEDDING ARRIVED, THE YOUNG MAN CHANGED
HIS MIND AND STOOD UP HIS INTENDED BRIDE.
THE HOUSE WAS NEVER LIVED IN BY ANYONE AND IS BELIEVED BY
RESIDENTS OF THE AREA TO BE HAUNTED BY THE COUPLE.
Submitter comment:
MY AUNT, FROM WHOM I HEARD THIS STORY, LIVES IN THE AREA OF THE
SUPPOSEDLY HAUNTED HOUSE.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE ; WEST SALEM TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Other Structure for Private Use BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 10-00-1964
IN SCOTLAND IT IS BELIEVED THAT ON THE NIGHT OF A FULL MOON SOME
MEN TURN INTO WEREWOLVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Werewolf Vampire |
Date learned: 01-20-1970
LEGENDARY ECCENTRIC
ABOUT 75 YEARS AGO IN COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND, THERE LIVED
AN OLD WOMAN NAMED BIDDY EARLY. SHE WAS AN ECCENTRIC,
AND MANY STORIES GREW UP ABOUT HER. EVERYTHING THAT
WENT WRONG IN THE COUNTY WAS BLAMED ON BIDDY, AND PEOPLE
BEGAN TO CONSIDER HER A WITCH. EVEN TODAY, PARENTS
IN COUNTY CLARE WARN MISBEHAVING CHILDREN, "BIDDY
EARLY WILL GET YOU."
Submitter comment:
I COLLECTED THIS STORY FROM FATHER HAYES OF THE PALLOTINE
FATHERS. HE GREW UP IN COUNTY CLARE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; IRELAND ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Witch Shaman SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 00001963 WINTER ; 00-00-1888
CHRIST JOKE
DO YOU KNOW HOW CHRIST RECEIVED HIS NAME? WELL, WAY BACK WHEN,
THESE THREE GUYS CAME TO VISIT THE BABE WHO, AS YOU KNOW, WAS
BORN IN THIS OLD CAVE. NOW THIS CAVE WAS VERY, VERY LOW AND ONE
OF THESE THREE GUYS WAS EXTREMELY TALL. AFTER KNEELING FOR A
LONG TIME BEFORE THE BABE, THE TALL ONE, FORGETTING THE KIND OF
PLACE HE WAS IN, ROSE QUICKLY AND BANGED HIS HEAD. "JESUS
CHRIST!" SHOUTS HE. AND MARY TURNS TO JOSEPH, UPON HEARING THIS,
AND SAYS, "GEE, JOSEPH, THAT WOULD BE A BETTER NAME THAN
ARCHIBALD."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Baptism Naming rite |
Date learned: 01-06-1967
HAUNTED HOUSE
ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO, IN WEST SALEM TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA, A YOUNG
MAN SOON TO BE MARRIED BUILT A HOUSE ON BARRY ROAD FOR HIS BRIDE.
HOWEVER, WHEN THE DAY OF THE WEDDING ARRIVED, THE YOUNG MAN CHANGED
HIS MIND AND STOOD UP HIS INTENDED BRIDE.
THE HOUSE WAS NEVER LIVED IN BY ANYONE AND IS BELIEVED BY
RESIDENTS OF THE AREA TO BE HAUNTED BY THE COUPLE.
Submitter comment:
MY AUNT, FROM WHOM I HEARD THIS STORY, LIVES IN THE AREA OF THE
SUPPOSEDLY HAUNTED HOUSE.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE ; WEST SALEM TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Other Structure for Private Use BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 10-00-1964
IN SCOTLAND IT IS BELIEVED THAT ON THE NIGHT OF A FULL MOON SOME
MEN TURN INTO WEREWOLVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Werewolf Vampire |
Date learned: 01-20-1970
ALSO FOR AN INGROWN HAIR-- PUT SCALDING WATER INTO A POP BOTTLE,
THEN POUR IT OUT QUICKLY PUTTING YOUR THUMB OVER THE TPP SO AIR WILL
NOT ESCAPE. THEM PLACE THE BOTTLE DIRECTLY ONTO THE AFFECTED AREA.
Submitter comment: MY MOTHER'S BOYFRIEND GAVE ME THIS ONE.--- IT DIDNT WORK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
LEGENDARY ECCENTRIC
ABOUT 75 YEARS AGO IN COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND, THERE LIVED
AN OLD WOMAN NAMED BIDDY EARLY. SHE WAS AN ECCENTRIC,
AND MANY STORIES GREW UP ABOUT HER. EVERYTHING THAT
WENT WRONG IN THE COUNTY WAS BLAMED ON BIDDY, AND PEOPLE
BEGAN TO CONSIDER HER A WITCH. EVEN TODAY, PARENTS
IN COUNTY CLARE WARN MISBEHAVING CHILDREN, "BIDDY
EARLY WILL GET YOU."
Submitter comment:
I COLLECTED THIS STORY FROM FATHER HAYES OF THE PALLOTINE
FATHERS. HE GREW UP IN COUNTY CLARE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; IRELAND ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Witch Shaman SPEECH -- Formula |
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, YOU'RE GOING TO CATCH A FOOL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Nose BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose |
Date learned: 10-17-1970
COUNTING OUT RHYME
APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS, AND PLUMS.
TELL ME WHEN YOUR BIRTHDAY COMES.
JUNE. J-U-N-E SPELLS JUNE AND YOU ARE NOT IT.
Submitter comment:
COUNTER SPELLS OUT MONTH GIVEN BY PERSON LANDED ON. REPEAT THIS
PROCEDURE UNTIL ONE PERSON IS LEFT. THAT PERSON IS "IT".
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GARDEN CITY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
IN ITALY, IF A GIRL IS PINCHED BY A GUY IN THE REAR,
SHE IS SUPPOSED TO TAKE IT AS A COMPLIMENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; DORMS
James Callow Keyword(s): BUTTOCKS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage SPEECH -- Congratulations Appreciation Appreciation of female beauty |
Date learned: 10-02-1969