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IF YOUR PALM ITCHES, YOU'RE GOING TO RECEIVE MONEY.
Submitter comment:
THIS FOLK BELIEF WAS COMMUNICATED TO BRIAN AS A CHILD
BY HIS MOTHER IN RURAL OHIO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Measure of quality Monetary systemMoneyWealth |
Date learned: 00001960S
SUPERSTITION
IN READING THE PALMS IT IS BELIEVED THAT A LONG LINE IN THE PALM
OF YOUR HAND MEANS LONG LIFE, AND A SHORT LINE MEANS YOU WILL DIE
AT A YOUNG AGE.
Where learned: BAHAMAS ; NASSAU
Keyword(s): LONGEVITY
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001970S
SUPERSTITION--DREAMS
IT IS BELIEVED THAT DREAMS CAN MEAN THE OPPOSITE OF WHATEVER
YOU DREAM. FOR EXAMPLE:
(1) IF YOU DREAM YOU GOT MARRIED IT WILL OR CAN MEAN THAT
SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY WILL DIE.
(2) DREAMING OF LOSING YOUR FRONT TOOTH ALSO MEANS SOMEONE
IN THE FAMILY WILL DIE OR BECOME ILL.
(3) IF YOU DREAM YOUR MOM OR DAD DIED OR IF YOU DREAM YOU
ATTENDED A FUNERAL, IT CAN MEAN THE PERSON WHO HAD DIED IN THE
DREAM WILL LIVE LONG.
(4) DREAMING OF WEDDINGS ALSO SIGNIFY DEATH.
Where learned: BAHAMAS ; EXUMA
Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001920S
SUPERSTITION--PREDICTION OF GENDER
IT IS SAID THAT THE SHAPE OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN'S STOMACH WILL
DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SHE HAS A BOY OR GIRL. FOR EXAMPLE,
A ROUND STOMACH IS AN INDICATION OF THE BABY BEING A GIRL, AND
A SHARP OR POINTED STOMACH IS AN INDICATION OF A BOY.
Where learned: BAHAMAS ; NASSAU
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001970S
IF YOU EXPERIENCE EXCESSIVE GAS DURING PREGNANCY YOUR BABY
WILL HAVE THICK HAIR.
Submitter comment:
BIRTH
PREGNANT WOMEN EXPERIENCE GAS WHILE PREGNANT; SCIENTIFIC
FACT
Where learned: ALABAMA ; WAUGH
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-20-1984
DON'T PUT YOUR SHOES UNDER YOUR BED AT NIGHT OR YOU'LL HAVE
NIGHTMARES.
Submitter comment:
EXPLICIT INTERDICTION
MY SISTER-IN-LAW TOLD ME THAT WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER, SHE PUT
HER SHOES UNDER HER BED ONCE AND THAT NIGHT SHE HAD A
TERRIBLE NIGHTMARE; SHE WOKE UP IN A COLD SWEAT, YELLING AND
SCREAMING.
SINCE THAT NIGHT, MY SISTER-IN-LAW HAS VOWED NEVER TO PLACE
HER SHOES UNDER HER BED AGAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress HandsFeet BELIEF -- Measure of time Sleeping |
Date learned: 10-27-1984
BLACK-AMERICAN BELIEF
WHAT YOU DREAM THE FIRST NIGHT UNDER A
NEW ROOF WILL COME TRUE.
Submitter comment: HEARD BEFORE MOVING INTO A NEW HOME.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI
James Callow Keyword(s): METONYMY
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. Spirit / Mind / Body Favorites |
Date learned: 00-00-1957
BLACK-AMERICAN BELIEF
IF A YOUNG MAN DREAMS THAT HE EATS
A PICKLE, HE WILL BE LOVED BY AN
OLDER, SOUR-TEMPERED WOMAN.
Where learned: ALABAMA
Keyword(s): DREAMS
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body |
Date learned: 09-18-1985
WHEN YOU GET AN UNEXPECTED CHILL IT MEANS THAT SOMEONE IS
STEPPING OVER YOUR GRAVE.
Submitter comment: YOUR GRAVE SHOULD BE INTERPRETED AS YOUR FUTURE BURIAL SITE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1974 ; 11-00-1987
IF YOU DREAM OF DEATH IT'S A SIGN OF GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: POLISH SUPERSTITION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 10-10-1987
IF YOU DREAM OF A BABY, IT IS A SIGN OF AN UPCOMING WEDDING.
Submitter comment: POLISH SUPERSTITION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body Observation BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 10-10-1987
IF YOU DREAM OF A WEDDING IT IS A SIGN OF BIRTH.
Submitter comment: POLISH SUPERSTITION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 10-10-1987
DREAMS ARE ALWAYS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY SEEM.
Submitter comment: POLISH SUPERSTITION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body |
Date learned: 10-10-1987
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES YOU WILL KISS A FOOL
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed SPEECH -- Gesture |
Balinese custom
To bring back dead spirits one must place a white box on a
table with a pencil through the middle of the top towards the
bottom and meditate to talk to the dead.
Where learned: Bali ; Indonesia
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
When pregnant if the child is carried high it's a boy and if
carried low it's a girl.
James Callow comment:
Of the five items in Puckett, Ohio, only no. 719 (from a
student nurse of English, Irish, Scottish heritage) equates a male
baby with high carriage; the four items in no. 720 all say that a
fetus carried low will turn out to be a boy.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1988
Pain in an arthritic or previously broken joint means that it
will rain.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00-00-1976
My mother believes that when a baby is born with a
veil(placenta) still covering its face that it will be able to see
spirits.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
Keyword(s): Gypsies
| Subject headings: | Prophet / Seer / Soothsayer Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
IF YOU ARE WALKING AND A HEAT WEAVE COMES OVER YOU,
THAT IS A SIGN OF DEATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
TRUTH BELIEF
WHEN SOMEONE CANNOT REMEMBER WHAT HE WANTED TO SAY,
"IT MUST HAVE BEEN A FIB."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal P477.8 |
Date learned: 10-19-1970