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SAYING

A GREEN CHRISTMAS MAKES A FULL GRAVEYARD.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM HIS MOTHER WHO SAID THE SAYING WAS USED
IN DUNDEE, SCOTLAND, WHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL SHE WAS AROUND THIRTY YEA
OLD. INFORMANT,S MOTHER CAME TO AMERICA IN 1912, THREE YEARS AFTER
THE INFORMANT WAS BORN.

Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; 4236 WILLOW AVE ; PITTSBURGH

Subject headings: Observation
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below.
BELIEF -- Weather sign or control
BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 10-02-1971

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