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HALLOWEEN PRANKS
THERE IS THIS STORY ABOUT A GROUP OF FRIENDS DOWN SOUTH, WHO HAD
FUN EVERY YEAR, DOING PRANKS ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT. SINCE WHAT THEY
DID WAS BASICALLY CONSIDERED TO BE INNOCENT, THEIR PARENTS REALLY
DIDN'T CARE WHAT THEY DID. ONE OF THESE BOYS HAD THE IDEA ONE
NIGHT TO GO AROUND KNOCKING OVER OUT-HOUSES FOR FUN. SINCE ALL
AGREED THAT THIS WOULD BE FUN THEY ALL RAN OUT AND DID THEIR
THING. ON COMING INTO THE HOUSE, ONE OF THESE BOYS MET HIS
FATHER, WHO AT FIRST SIGHT SLAPPED THE BOY. THE BOY BEING AMAZED
ASKED HIS FATHER "WHAT WAS THAT FOR" AND THE FATHER REPLIED "THAT
WAS FOR KNOCKING OVER THE OUT-HOUSE." THE BOY IMMEDIATELY SHOT
BACK AND SAID "I THOUGHT THAT THESE PRANKS DIDN'T BOTHER YOU" AT
WHICH THE FATHER REPLIED "THEY WOULDN'T, IF I HADN'T BEEN IN THE
OUT-HOUSE WHEN YOU GUYS KNOCKED IT OVER."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 26516 PENNIE ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ordinary Tale |
EASTER CUSTOM
ON EASTER MORNING THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY ASSEMBLE AT THE BREAKFAST
AND ONE HARD-BOILED EASTER EGG IS DIVIDED AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE
FAMILY.
Submitter comment:
THIS CUSTOM IS PERFORMED EVERY YEAR AND IT IS SUPPOSED TO SIGNIFY
THE UNITY OF THE FAMILY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 26516 PENNIE ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
Keyword(s): FAMILY UNITY
Date learned: 10-20-1970
CHRISTMAS CUSTOM
STRAW IS PLACED UNDER KITCHEN TABLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE IN MEMORY OF
THE BIRTH OF JESUS.
Submitter comment:
IT IS A CUSTOM THAT WAS PRACTICED IN POLAND WHEN INFORMANT WAS
A CHILD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 26516 PENNIE ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Straw |
Date learned: 10-21-1970
THE MAN SLOWEST IN MAKING A PROMISE, IS THE QUICKEST IN
KEEPING IT.
Submitter comment: THIS STATEMENT IS A COMMON EXPRESSION USED BY THE INFORMANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 26516 PENNIE ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-10-1970
VOCABULARY
CAR JOCKEY - ONE WHOSE JOB IS TO MOVE CARS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
AS IN SAY DRIVING CARS OFF AN ASSEMBLY LINE AND INTO SOME STORAGE
AREA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 26516 PENNIE ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Trade & commerce |
Date learned: 10-30-1970
Custom
Greetings:
Offering salt and bread and flowers is a way of greeting a person who has arrived from a long trip. This custom is one which was performed commonly in S.E. Poland and in Ukraine many years ago (prior to WWI) at that time it was used to greet any traveler regardless of his social position. Now recently it is used only in greeting people like priests, bishops, government officials, etc.
Submitter comment:
Although informant mentioned that this custom is carried out in Europe, I myself have observed this several months ago when people in a Ukrainian church greeted a bishop which had just been released from prison by the Russians.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 26516 PENNIE ; Holubka, Julia ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
Keyword(s): CUSTOM ; FLOWERS ; GREETING ; POLAND ; Salt, Bread ; Social Class ; Ukraine
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |