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THE TRUTH IS IN THE WINE.
Submitter comment: ITALIAN: IN VINO VERITAS
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 16721 GLENMORE
Keyword(s): ALCOHOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-08-1970
WHAT IS HOPE?
TROUBLE CAUSES ENDURANCE: INDURANCE CAUSES CHARACTER AND
CHARACTER RESULTS IN HOPE.
Submitter comment: THE VICAR HANDSCHIN USED THIS SAYING IN A CHURCH SERMON ONCE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 18069 BILTMORE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-28-1970
TO HAVE FIFTEEN FITS AND WALK IN EACH ONE OF THEM.
Submitter comment: WHICH MEANS TO BE VERY ANGRY.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 7792 DAYTON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM MAXIM
THE SMILE THAT YOU SEND OUT RETURNS TO YOU.
SMILE AND USUALLY SOMEONE WILL SMILE IN RETURN.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 2154 DICKERSON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-07-1971
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RIDING NIGGER
WHEN A PERSON RIDES ALONE IN THE BACK SEAT, HE IS CONSIDERED
TO BE RIDING "NIGGER."
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19176 STRASBURG
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 03-12-1970
LIMERICK
THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN FROM JAPAN
WHOSE POETRY NEVER WOULD SCAN.
THEY TOLD HIM THE THING
DOESN'T GO WITH A SWING.
THAT'S BECAUSE I TRY TO GET ALL THE WORDS IN THE LAST LINE THAT
I POSSIBLY CAN.
Submitter comment: (MRS. CASE HEARD THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL)
Where learned: HOME ; LOCATION NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): ALEXANDRINE ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 10-15-1972
WORMS
A TALL GLASS OF WATER IS PLACED IN FRONT OF THE PERSON TO BE CURED.
THEN A PIECE OF REGULAR SEWING THREAD IS USED TO MEASURE THE PERSON
FROM HEAD TO TOE THREE TIMES.
THEN THE PERSON SUSPENDS HIS HANDS IN THE SHAPE OF A CROSS
AND IS MEASURED FROM FINGERTIP TO FINGERTIP WITH THE SAME THREAD
THREE TIMES.
THEN THE LENGTH OF THREAD IS FOLDED IN HALF,
THEN FOLDED ONCE AGAIN IN HALF AND SO ON
UNTIL THE THREAD'S FORM HAS A LENGTH OF ABOUT 6 INCHES.
THE THREAD IS THEN HELD LENGTHWISE ABOVE THE GLASS OF WATER
AND SLOWLY CUT IN LITTLE PIECES
ABOUT AN INCH LONG.
AS THE THREAD FALLS INTO WATER SOME THREAD WILL STAY AT TOP
OR REST IN THE MIDDLE OR FALL TO THE BOTTOM.
DEPENDING ON WHERE THE THREAD RESTS, THE PERSON
PERFORMING THE CURE CAN TELL WHERE THE WORMS ARE IN THE BODY.
THIS CEREMONY IS CARRIED OUT FOR 3 DAYS IN A ROW.
AND ON THE THIRD DAY THE PERSON IS CURED
AND FEELING MUCH BETTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5205 FARMBROOK ; COLLECTORS HOME
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 09-21-1969
HEADACHE
ONE TABLESPOON OF HONEY CURES A MIGRAINE HEADACHE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19626 CONCORD ; COLLECTORS HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-23-1968
STICK OUT YOUR CAN
HERE COMES THE GARBAGE MAN!
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 02-00-1970
POLISH CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
DECEMBER 24 (CHRISTMAS EVE) IS CELEBRATED WITH A SPECIAL MEAL AND
A MEANINGFUL READING FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT WORKS PERTAINING TO THE
SEASON OF CHRISTMAS.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK ; 2370 BURGER ; TOLD AT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve |
Date learned: 03-21-1971
BLASON POPULAIR
"HE'S A DOUBTING THOMAS."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HIS HOME ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
ITALIAN PROVERB
WHEN A MAN MARRIES HE MOVES AWAY FROM HIS FATHER.
Submitter comment:
(MEANING THAT IT IS RIGHT AND PROPER THAT HE DO SO AND THERE
BE A DEFINITE SEPARATION BETWEEN THEM.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; DAUGHTERS HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-26-1969
COIN CUSTOM
IF YOU PUT A PENNY IN EACH OF YOUR DRESSER DRAWERS
AND KEEP THEM THERE YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE MONEY
WHILE YOU LIVE IN THAT HOUSE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAYS HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM THIS AND SWEARS IT IS TRUE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT ; 17520 NORTHLAWN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of quality Medium of exchange BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
WEATHER
THUNDER BEFORE SEVEN, RAIN BEFORE ELEVEN.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED IN CHILDHOOD.
Keyword(s): PREDICTION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Prose Narrative C820.462 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief |
Date learned: 01-26-1971
FUDGE, FUDGE, CALL THE JUDGE./ MAMA'S GONNA HAVE A BABY./ IT AIN'T NO
BOY./ IT AIN'T NO GIRL./ IT'S JUST A PLAIN OLD BABY.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK ; 11362 LUMPKIN ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-11-1971
CHARMS
YOU RECIEVE CHARMS OR CHARM BRACELETS ON YOUR BIRTHDAY TO
INSURE THAT YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER.
James Callow comment: COLLECTOR'S SPELLING CORRECTED
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | Charm / Enchantment / Conjuration CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Private birthday or anniversary |
Date learned: CA1963-1975
A NUMBER SUPERSTITION
YOUR FATHERS PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT IF THIRTEEN PEOPLE SAT AT A TABLE
BAD LUCK WOULD COME TO ONE OF THEM.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER HUSBAND AND HIS RELATIVES
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described |
Date learned: 03-10-1967
"OUTHOUSE SONG"
I'M A JUVENILE DELINQUENT,
I CAN'T GO HOME ANYMORE.
I BEAT UP SINNERS AND I DRINK WITH BUMS,
AND I WAIT ON THE CORNER FOR MY PICK-UP TO COME.
OH I'M A JUVENILE DELINQUENT,
I CAN'T GO HOME ANYMORE.
MY MOTHER HATES ME AND MY FATHER BEATS ME,
AND I BET ON THE RACES CAUSE MY HORSES CAN RUN.
AND THEN THERE'S GRANNY,
SWINGIN' ON THE OUTHOUSE DOOR,
WITHOUT HER NIGHTY ON.
AND THEN THERE'S GRANDPA SCREAMIN' GRANNY GET YOUR NIGHTY BACK,
GRANNY GET YOUR NIGHTY BACK,
GRANNY GET YOUR NIGHTY BACK ON!
I REALLY MEAN IT!
GRANNY GET YOUR NIGHTY BACK ON.
Submitter comment:
THE FIRST EIGHT LINES OF THIS STRANGE TUNE WERE SUNG TO
THE WELL-KNOWN MELODY WHICH WE RECOGNIZE AS "YANKEE DOODLE."
James Callow comment: TUNE OF "I'M A YANKEE DOODLE DANDY" MIGHT BE MEANT.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; FRASER ; COUSINS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Good humor Jest |
Date learned: 00001970S
GODPARENTS
CONFIRMATION SPONSORS AND GODPARENTS GIVE PRESENTS AS PROTECTION
FROM EVIL.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): BAPTISM ; GIFTGIVING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Maturity |
Date learned: CA1963-1975