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PROVERB
DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
PROVERB
A COLD NOSE MEANS A WARM HEART.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 00001960 CA
PROVERB
COLD HANDS MEAN A WARM HEART.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 00001960 CA
YOU CAN HEAR CORN GROW AT NIGHT IN JULY.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- July BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
THUNDER IS THE DEVIL REARRANGING HIS FURNITURE
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
Keyword(s): SATAN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00001950'S
THUNDER IS THE ANGELS BOWLING.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00001950'S
SNOW IS FROM THE ANGELS FLUFFING THEIR FEATHER PILLOWS.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00001950'S
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, IT IS BAD LUCK. IF YOU GATHER
UP THE GLASS AND THROW IT AWAY, THE BAD LUCK WON'T HAPPEN.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WABASH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror BELIEF -- Conversions |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
IT'S BAD LUCK TO LET A BLACK CAT WALK IN FRONT OF YOU.
Where learned: INDIANA ; Jeffersonville
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 04-18-1971
Proverb
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: INDIANA ; Arterburn, Laura ; 209 Mockingbird ; Jeffersonville
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Apple ; Day ; DOCTOR ; HEALTH ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
HAY GATHERINGS
ALL FARMERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN INDIANA WOULD STOP ALL THEIR WORK
AND ALL JOIN IN TO HELP EACH OTHER WITH THEIR HAY GATHERING.
THE GROUP OF MEN WOULD SPEND TWO DAYS AT EACH FARM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; INDIANA
Keyword(s): FARMING
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Autumn Fall Harvest Thanksgiving |
Date learned: 10-10-1971
BORASS---MEANS TO PLAY A PRACTICAL JOKE ON SOMEONE.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: INDIANA ; BLOOMINGTON ; Harold, Tom
Keyword(s): JOKE ; Nickname ; PRACTICAL JOKE ; SLANG ; SPEECH
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
WET AS A HOOT OWL IN A HURRICANE.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WALTON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 07-05-1970
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
AS USELESS AS TITS ON A BOAR.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WALTON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 07-05-1970
PROVERBIAL EXPRESSION
THAT OLD DOG WON'T HUNT.
Submitter comment:
EXPRESSION USED TO MEAN THAT SOMETHING IS WORN OUT OR
OVERUSED.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WALTON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 07-05-1970
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
NERVOUS AS A LONG-TAILED CAT IN A ROOM FULL OF ROCKING
CHAIRS.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WALTON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 07-05-1970
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
SOMETHING "LEANS TOWARD DIXIE."
Submitter comment:
AN EXPRESSION TO SHOW THAT SOMETHING IS NOT QUITE RIGHT OR
THAT SOMEONE HAS THE WRONG IDEA ABOUT SOMETHING.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WALTON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 06-21-1970
PROVERB
I'LL (HE'LL, WE'LL) SHOW THEM HOW THE BORE EAT THE CABBAGE.
Submitter comment: USED TO EXPRESS "SHOW THEM HOW IT'S DONE."
Where learned: INDIANA ; WALTON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 07-05-1970
FOOD
EATING THE COOKED BRAINS OF CATTLE IS GOOD FOR YOUR BRAINS--IT MAKES YOU SMARTER.
Where learned: INDIANA ; WALTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
MY MOTHER WILL TELL YOU TO GO AND GET 3 (OR MAYBE 7) STONES.
EACH ONE SHE RUBS OVER YOUR WARTS. AND IN SO MANY DAYS THEY
WILL GO AWAY. AND THEY ACTUALLY GO AWAY.
WHEN I WAS 7 OR 8 I HAD A SEED WART AND MOTHER COULDN'T
CHARM IT OFF. HER POWER WOULDN'T WORK IN THE IMMEDIATE
FAMILY. SO I WENT TO A LADY WHO TOOK A BLACK THREAD AND
MADE A LOOP WITH IT AND PUT IT AROUND THE WART AND DREW
IT TIGHT. SHE TOLD ME TO LEAVE IT ALONE AND IT WOULD GO
AWAY. AND IT WAS GONE IN A WEEK OR TWO.
Submitter comment: HAPPENED IN SEYMOUR, INDIANA, WHERE HE LIVED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; INDIANA ; SOUTHFIELD ; SEYMOUR
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several Favorites BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 05-19-1965