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PROVERB
FALLING OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE.
Submitter comment: SOUND NOT REMEMBERED.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 11-10-1967
PROVERB
A FALSE FRIEND AND A SHADOW ATTEND ONLY WHEN THE SUN IS SHINING.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-01-1968
WEATHER RHYMES
FIRST THE RAIN AND THEN THE WIND,
TOPSAIL SHEETS AND HALYARDS MIND;
FIRST THE WIND AND THEN THE RAIN,
HOIST YOUR TOPSAILS UP AGAIN.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse in Other Group of Folklore C800.800 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb |
Date learned: 09-07-1969
SAYING
FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD.
Submitter comment: FROM RELATIVES.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): FOOLHARDINESS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb |
Date learned: 10-06-1967
PROVERB
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
POLISH PROVERB
MAS DRY GEUPEK PO SZKODZIE.
Submitter comment: MEANING: A FOOL GETS SMART AFTER THE HARM IS DONNE.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-25-1969
PROVERB
FOOLS MAKE FEASTS, WISE MEN EAT THEM.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; ASSONANCE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
PROVERB
FRIENDS ARE LIKE DIAMONDS
PRECIOUS AND RARE
FALSE ONES LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES
FOUND EVERYWHERE.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
POLISH PROVERB
MITE Z TEGO POCZASTKI.
"GOOD BEGINNING-BAD ENDING."
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ANTITHESIS ; ELLIPSIS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-25-1969
PROVERB
GOOD EXAMPLE IS THE BEST SERMON.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
POLISH PROVERB
POLISH: DOBRY ZART, TYMFA WART.
TRANSLATION: A GOOD JOKE IS WORTH A GOOD LAUGH.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-25-1967
LEAVING THE SERVICE
WHEN LEAVING THE SERVICE, A SAILOR WILL NEVER CARRY HIS OWN
LUGGAGE. TO DO SO IS BAD LUCK. HE USUALLY ALLOWS ONE OF HIS BEST
FRIENDS TO HELP HIM, BRINGING ABOUT GOOD LUCK FOR
HIS HELPFUL FRIEND.
Where learned: ROUTE 2 ; INFORMANTS HOME ; W JEFFERSON RD
Keyword(s): CONVERSION ; TRAVEL: RETURN FROM NAVY
Date learned: 03-09-1970
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM
GROWING OLD IS BAD UNTIL YOU CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVE.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): OLD AGE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-11-1971
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM
"GOSE W DOMER, BOG W DOMII."
TRANSLATION: A GUEST IN THE HOUSE-GOD IN THE HOUSE.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 10-01-1969
CHRISTMAS CUSTOM
AT CHRISTMAS TIME, THE CHURCH ORGANIST OF ST. PETER & PAUL
SELLS A SMALL WAFER CALLED OPLATIKA. THEY ARE SQUARE
AND TASTE LIKE A COMMUNION TYPE HOST. AFTER MIDNIGHT MASS,
THE FAMILIES HAVE A DINNER AT WHICH EVERYONE IN THE FAMILY
BREAKS OFF A PIECE AND EATS IT.
Submitter comment:
[St. Peter & Paul is a] Roman Catholic [church.]
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; informant's home
Keyword(s): FOOD CUSTOM ; ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Oplatki CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Church |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
FORMULA SPEECH AT DINING TABLE
AS A CHILD MR. WELAGE OFTEN RECALLS OF BEING REPRIMANDED BY HIS
FATHER FOR REACHING FOR FOOD ACROSS THE DINING TABLE INSTEAD OF
ASKING FOR IT. WHEN MR. WELAGE WAS OLDER HE WOULD OFTEN RETORT TO
HIS FATHER:
ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE,
REACH AND YOU'LL GET IT QUICKER.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- S750 |
Date learned: 03-19-1968
Festive Fruit Salad
4 cups halved seeded red grapes
4 delicious apples, washed, peeled, and sliced
4 bananas sliced
2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
1 pint heavy cream, whipped
Stir together fruit and nuts; fold gently into whipped cream.
Chill at least one hour. Makes 10 to 12 servings.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Food Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit |
LYRICAL VERSE DEATH
HERE LIES THE BODY OF SOLOMON PEASE.
UNDER THE DAISIES, UNDER THE TREES.
BUT PEASE ISN'T HERE, ONLY THE POD
PEASE SHELLED OUT AND WENT HOME TO GOD.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): EPITAPH COUPLETS DEATH VEGETABLES-PEAS METAPHOR PUN-SLANG ; RHYME:AA
| Subject headings: | 730 Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 04-02-1968
ONE LESS TEST
WHEN I SET MYSELF DOWN TO STUDY,
I PRAY THE LORD I DON,T GO NUTTY;
AND IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE,
THAT'S ONE LESS TEST I'LL HAVE TO TAKE
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): AABB ; PARODY-PRAYER QUATRAIN HUMOR STUDYING-TESTS ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | 730 Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 11-18-1968
SUPERSTITION
STORY OCCURRED IN DRAYTON PLAINS MICHIGAN IN 1901. THERE WAS AN
OLD INN WHICH HAD BEEN EMPTY FOR YEARS AND SAID THE REASON WAS THAT
THE COMMUNITY ACTUALLY BELIEVED THAT IT WAS HAUNTED. THE COMMUNITY
HISTORY HAS IT THAT A YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE ON THEIR HONEYMOON USED
IT AND A WEEK LATER THEY WERE DISCOVERED IN BED WITH THEIR THROATS
CUT.
Submitter comment:
MR. LAWRENCE LEARNED IT IN 1901 BECAUSE HE LIVED ACROSS THE
STREET FROM THE INN.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 12-25-1963 ; 00-00-1901