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HOW ST. PATRICK DEFEATED THE DRUIDS ON HIS COMING
TO IRELAND:
IN PRE-LITERATE CELTIC SOCIETY, THE DRUIDS POWER
WAS DERIVED LARGELY FROM THEIR VERBAL SKILLS.
PATRICK OFFERED TO WEIGH THE WORD OF HIS LORD (JESUS)
AGAINST THE WORDS OF THE DRUIDS. THEN HE PRODUCED A
BALANCE SCALE AND PUT A BIBLE IN ONE OF THE PANS.
THE DRUIDS, UNABLE TO PRODUCE BOOKS, LOST AND IRELAND
WAS ON THE ROAD TO CHRISTIANITY.
Where learned: WALES ; ABERYSTWYTH
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
HOW ST. PATRICK DEFEATED THE DRUIDS ON HIS COMING
TO IRELAND:
IN PRE-LITERATE CELTIC SOCIETY, THE DRUIDS POWER
WAS DERIVED LARGELY FROM THEIR VERBAL SKILLS.
PATRICK OFFERED TO WEIGH THE WORD OF HIS LORD (JESUS)
AGAINST THE WORDS OF THE DRUIDS. THEN HE PRODUCED A
BALANCE SCALE AND PUT A BIBLE IN ONE OF THE PANS.
THE DRUIDS, UNABLE TO PRODUCE BOOKS, LOST AND IRELAND
WAS ON THE ROAD TO CHRISTIANITY.
Where learned: WALES ; ABERYSTWYTH
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
CUSTOM
THE TIME WHEN CHRISTMAS IS HELD (DECEMBER 25) IS ACTUALLY TAKEN
FROM OLDER NATURE RELIGIONS WHICH VENERATED THE WINTER SOLSTICE
(DECEMBER 22). THE UNDERLYING THEORY OF THESE FESTIVALS WAS THAT
AFTER THE 22ND OF DECEMBER THE POWER OF THE SUN AND GOOD FORCES
ASSOCIATED WITH IT BEGAN TO INCREASE--HENCE THE NIGHTS GOT NO LONGER,
BUT RATHER BEGAN TO GET SHORTER. THUS THE TIME WAS MOST APPROPRIATE
FOR CELEBRATING THE "BIRTH" OF A GREAT "WHITE" POWER.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: WALES ; ABERYSTWYTH
Keyword(s): Celebration ; CUSTOM ; FESTIVAL ; holiday ; Solstice
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE,
ONIONS ARE STRONG, SO I'M ONIONS FOR YOU!
Where learned: FLORIDA ; LAKE WALES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Roses are red and other such associations |
YOU HAVE TO BE MARRIED BEFORE THREE O'CLOCK. LEARNED
WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN ; WALES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage |
YOU HAVE TO BE BURIED BEFORE THREE O'CLOCK.
Submitter comment: LEARNED WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES.
Where learned: WALES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
BEFORE YOU GO TO BED, PEEL AN APPLE ALL IN ONE PIECE, THROW
THE PEELING OVER LEFT SHOULDER, AND IT WILL FALL IN THE
FIRST LETTER OF THE BOY YOU ARE GOING TO MARRY. LEARNED
WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES, BUT IT IS NOT REALLY BELIEVED
ANY MORE.
Submitter comment: HALLOWEEN CUSTOM.
Where learned: WALES
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTIION
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Measure of time Sleeping BELIEF -- Word Letter BELIEF -- Use of Object |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF IT RAINS ON ST. SWITHIN'S DAY, IT WILL RAIN FOR NEXT
FORTY DAYS.
LEARNED WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES, IT IS TOLD AND COMMENTED ON,
BUT IF IT COMES TRUE IT IS HELD TO BE A COINCIDENCE.
Where learned: WALES
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- July 15 BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through A time segment or a direction BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IN ENGLAND WHEN YOU HEAR A CUCKOO SING, IF YOU HAVE MONEY,
YOU WILL BE RICH; IF YOU HAVE NO MONEY, YOU WILL BE POOR.
IF YOU DO HAVE MONEY, YOU TAKE IT OUT AND SPIT ON IT.
Submitter comment: LEARNED IN WALES, WHILE GROWING UP THERE.
Where learned: ENGLAND ; WALES
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS THOUGHT UNLUCKY TO HANG UP A CALENDAR BEFORE JANUARY 1ST
OF THE NEW YEAR.
Submitter comment: LEARNED WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES.
Where learned: WALES
| Subject headings: | Observation CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's BELIEF -- Bad luck Time (year, season, week, hour, etc.) Occasion Event |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS BAD LUCK TO PUT SHOES ON A TABLE.
Submitter comment: LEARNED WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES.
Where learned: WALES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Furniture (bed, table, chair, etc.) BELIEF -- Bad luck Clothing (dress, hat, shoes, suit, etc.) |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS BAD LUCK TO OPEN AN UMBRELLA IN THE HOUSE.
Submitter comment: LEARNED WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES.
Where learned: WALES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Umbrella |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS BAD LUCK TO WALK UNDER A LADDER.
Submitter comment: LEARNED WHILE GROWING UP IN WALES.
Where learned: WALES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Ladder (angles, pyramid, etc.) |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
Faerie: Elves and Time Travellers
There is no such thing as "a fairy," but rather "Faerie" is a place - a half-remembered world perhaps existing in another dimension. "Faerie" was inhabited not by faeries but by elves. These Elves were not diminutive, but tall, pale, thin and fair. They were especially noted for their grey eyes. They are unable to touch iron: suggesting that these were early time-travellers unable to come in contact with magnetic sources without "grounding out" of the earthly dimension.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector stamped a home address stamp onto the card in the place of "collector data."
Stamp reads: Mrs.W.E. Givens, Jr.
They then crossed out the Prefix and first initials [Mrs. W.E.] of the name, and wrote an indecipherable scrawl over the suffix [Jr.]. This scrawl may possibly be Rev. or Esq.
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original Boggs number P400 was crossed out and P423 was substituted.
Where learned: WALES ; Givens, T S ; 4/72 ; ABERYSTWYTH
Keyword(s): Attributes ; Dimension ; Elf ; Elves ; Faerie ; Fairy ; IRON ; Legend ; Lore ; METAL ; MYTH ; Physics ; Time-Traveler
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome |
WELSH PROVERB
THE WATER IS SHALLOWEST WHERE IT BUBBLES.
Where learned: WALES
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |