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BELIEF ABOUT DROPPING SILVERWARE
DROP A FORK - A MAN IS COMING TO VISIT.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM AN IRISH FRIEND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLYMOUTH
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 10-00-1965
COMPANY
IF YOU DROP A FORK, YOU CAN EXPECT COMPANY.
Where learned: APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 10-29-1969
MONEY
IF YOU DROP A SPOON, YOU WILL RUN INTO SOME MONEY.
Where learned: APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 11-03-1969
SILVERWARE
IF YOU DROP SILVERWARE PEOPLE WILL COME VISIT YOU.
I DROPPED A WHOLE SET OF SILVERWARE AND WE HAD
A LARGE GROUP OF UNEXPECTED VISITORS COME.
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
IF YOU DROP A TEASPOON, LITTLE CHILDREN WILL VISIT.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM OTHER WOMEN.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 11-26-1967
IF YOU DROP A KNIFE, A MAN WILL VISIT.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 11-26-1967
SUPERSTITION
IF A SPOON IS DROPPED FROM THE DINNER TABLE, THEN
A WOMAN VISITOR WILL COME.
IF A KNIFE IS DROPPED FROM THE DINNER TABLE, THEN
A MALE VISITOR WILL ARRIVE SOON.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 10-25-1969
SUPERSTITION
IF A GIRL IS SLOPPY IN WASHING THE DISHES, THEN SHE WILL
MARRY A DRUNKARD.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 10-25-1969
COMPANY COMING
IF A PIECE OF SILVERWARE
DROPS ON THE FLOOR IT MEANS
COMPANY IS COMING.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 03-04-1968
BUBBLES IN A CUP OF TEA
IF A PERSON FINDS BUBBLES IN THEIR CUP OF TEA THEY SHOULD EXPECT
MONEY COMING TO THEM IN THE FUTURE.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 01-31-1968
DROPPING A KNIFE ON THE FLOOR INDICATES THAT AN UNEXPECTED
MALE VISITOR WILL COME THAT EVENING; DROPPING A FORK
MEANS TO EXPECT A FEMALE VISITOR. THIS PERSON REALLY
BELIEVED THIS, AND OFFERED AS PROOF SEVERAL INSTANCES IN
WHICH HIS FRIEND, BILL SCHROEDER, CAME IN JUST SUCH
A MANNER. IN FACT, IT BECAME A FAMILY JOKE THAT
BILL WOULD BE AT THEIR HOUSE IN TIME TO HELP WITH
DISHES.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 01-20-1968
BELIEF
IF YOU DROP A FORK, IT MEANS SOME GIRL'S COMING.
IF YOU DROP A KNIFE IT MEANS SOME BOY'S COMING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 10-17-1967
BELIEF ABOUT DROPPING SILVERWARE
DROP A KNIFE - A FIGHT.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM AN IRISH COMPANION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLYMOUTH
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 10-00-1965
FEMALE AND MALE VISITOR PREDICTION
IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY DROP A KNIFE,
IT SUPPOSEDLY MEANS THAT YOU
WILL SOON HAVE A MALE VISITOR.
DROP A FORK IMPLIES FEMALE VISITOR.
Where learned: MADONNA COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 10-23-1968
DROPPING A KNIFE
IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY DROP A KNIFE, SOMEONE IS TALKING
ABOUT YOU BEHIND YOUR BACK. (JABBLING YOU IN THE BACK)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 00001950'S
DROPPING A FORK
IF YOU DROP A FORK, SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 00001950'S
OMEN
IT IS AN AUSPICIOUS OMEN FOR THE CALL OF THE PRAYER
FROM ATOP THE MOSQUE (ALLAHU AKBAR, GOD IS GREAT) TO INSTANTANEOUSLY
FOLLOW THE CEASING OF ONE'S CONVERSATION; AN HARBINGER OF AN
EMBELLISHED LIFE TO COME.
Where learned: RABAT ; MOROCCO
| Subject headings: | Observation |
OMEN
IF A FIRE CRACKLES, COMPANY IS COMING.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 04-10-1967
IF BUBBLES RISE TO THE TOP OF A CUP OF COFFEE IT MEANS
YOU WILL BE RICH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLEASANT RIDGE
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 04-00-1965
BUTCHER
IT IS A BELIEF OF MANY BUTCHERS THAT IF YOU CUT
YOURSELF AND GET AN ODD NUMBER OF STITCHES, YOU
WILL GET CUT AGAIN.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 11-19-1968