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IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU CAME INTO A ROOM TO
GET, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU STARTED AND COME IN AGAIN
AND YOU WILL THINK OF IT.
Submitter comment: IT WORKS FOR ME. THIS PROBABLY HAS TRUE ASSOCIATIONAL
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN ; BETHESDA ; MARYLAND, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU TRIP ON THE FRONT STEPS WHEN YOU ARE GOING OUT IN THE
MORNING, YOU HAD BETTER GO RIGHT BACK IN AND STAY HOME,
BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK ALL DAY.
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN ; BETHESDA ; MARYLAND, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU DON'T WANT SOME BAD THING TO HAPPEN, KNOCK ON WOOD.
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN ; BETHESDA ; MARYLAND, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Plants SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF THERE'S A RING AROUND THE MOON, IT MEANS IT'S GOING TO RAIN.
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN ; BETHESDA ; MARYLAND, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF THERE HAS BEEN LOVELY WEATHER FOR A LONG TIME, THEN THERE IS
SURELY GOING TO BE A BAD WINTER (OR WET SPRING, OR MISERABLE
SUMMER) FOLLOWING.
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN ; BETHESDA ; MARYLAND, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF THE LEAVES TURN UP (SO THAT THE UNDER-PARTS SHOW), A RAIN-
STORM IS COMING.
Where learned: COLORADO ; SOURCE UNKNOWN ; BOULDER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 00001942 CA.
Jump rope jingle
Blondie and Dagwood went downtown.
Blondie bought an evening gown.
Dagwood bought an eveining paper.
This is what it said -
Close your eyes and coutn to 10.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): Charactor ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Unknown
Blue bells cockel shells enie inie over.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and informant share the same surname. Collector does not indicate where it was learned or where the informant lives.
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Blue Bells
Blue bells, cockele shells
Evy, ivy over.
(After swaying rope black and forth, as child jumps over it , Children begin a game3 of tag thru, the jump rope. )
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and informant are the same person. Collector does not state where it was learned or where the informant lives.
Where learned: SOURCE UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |