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IF A BIRD HITS YOUR WINDOW, SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY
OR A CLOSE FRIEND, WILL DIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF A BIRD FLIES INTO A HOUSE, THERE WILL SOON BE
DEATH IN THE FAMILY OR AMONG NEAR RELATIVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WHEN A BIRD FLIES AT THE WINDOW, A PERSON WILL DIE.
Submitter comment:
THIS SUPERSTITION WAS LEARNED FROM THE INFORMANT'S
MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 07-00-1964
A BIRD ON THE WINDOWSILL, WHEN A PERSON IS SICK,
IS A SIGN OF DEATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 07-14-1964
IF A BIRD FLIES INTO THE HOUSE, SOMEONE CLOSE
WILL DIE.
Submitter comment: HEARD FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 12-04-1965
IF A BIRD HITS A WINDOW, IT IS A SIGN OF DEATH IN
THE FAMILY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 09-28-1965
A BIRD DYING IN THE HOUSE MEANS DEATH TO SOMEONE IN
THE FAMILY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 09-30-1965
WHEN A BIRD HOVERS CONSISTENTLY (DAY AFTER DAY) AT A
WINDOW OF YOUR HOUSE, IT IS A WARNING THAT THERE WILL
BE A DEATH IN YOUR IMMEDIATE OR QUITE CLOSE FAMILY
CIRCLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 09-21-1969
IF A WILD BIRD OR BAT GOT INTO YOUR HOUSE, THEN IT
MEANT THAT SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE WAS GOING TO
DIE SOON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 01-00-1971
IF A BIRD FLIES INTO A CLOSED WINDOW, IT MEANS THAT
SOMEONE WILL DIE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 01-30-1971
IF YOU FIND A DEAD BIRD IN THE HOUSE, IT MEANS A
DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
Where learned: LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 11-15-1968
IF A BIRD FLIES AGAINST A WINDOW, THERE WILL BE A DEATH.
Submitter comment:
SYLVIA LEARNED THIS FROM HER SISTER, WHO IN TURN,
LEARNED IT AT THE NURSES' LOUNGE AT BEAUMONT
HOSPITAL, ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 09-23-1967
IF A BIRD GETS IN THE HOUSE, IT MEANS SOMEONE IS GOING
TO DIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 01-26-1968
IF A BIRD FLIES INTO YOUR HOUSE, OR AGAINST A WINDOW
OF YOUR HOUSE, THERE WILL BE A DEATH IN YOUR FAMILY
SOON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 02-09-1968
IF A BIRD FLEW INTO THE ROOM THERE WOULD BE A DEATH
IN FAMILY.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Use of Object Animals |
Date learned: 00001950S
HAPPY THE CORPSE THAT'S RAINED ON.
Submitter comment:
HEARD AT HER UNCLE'S FUNERAL, RECENTLY--IT RAINED
THAT DAY.
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 08-08-1964
IF IT RAINS ON A CORPSE IT WILL BE HAPPY IN HEAVEN.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
RAIN FALLING IN AN OPEN GRAVE IS A SURE SIGN OF
IMPENDING DEATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 03-08-1968
HUNGARIAN MARRIAGE PREDICTION
IF IT RAINS THE DAY A PERSON IS BURIED, HIS/HER
SPOUSE WILL GET REMARRIED WITHIN ONE YEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through |
Date learned: 10-10-1968
IF THE NUMBER OF CARS IN A FUNERAL PROCESSION ARE
COUNTED, THE PEOPLE IN THE LAST CAR WILL BE NEXT
TO DIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; GRADE SCHOOL ; SAINT STEPHEN
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Last events: the last person to the table... BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs |
Date learned: 11-19-1969