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IF YOU HOP EXACTLY THIRTEEN TIMES ON THE FLOOR, THE
THIRTEENTH TIME YOU'LL GO THROUGH IT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
PUT MONEY UNDER YOUR WELCOME MAT ON NEW YEAR'S EVE; BRING IT IN
ON NEW YEAR'S DAY AND HAVE MONEY COMING IN ALL YEAR.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 31 New Year's Eve BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
NEVER LET ANYONE PASS YOU ON THE STAIRS.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
NEVER START TO SEW SOMETHING (NEW) ON FRIDAY--YOU WILL NEVER
FINISH IT.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time Routine activity BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
IF YOU CUT A BABY'S HAIR BEFORE HE IS A YEAR OLD, HE WON'T LIVE
FOR YOU TO RAISE HIM.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Date learned: 07-00-1972
YOU SHOULD NEVER WEAN A BABY UNTIL HIS ZODIAC SIGN IS IN HIS
KNEE OR HE WILL CRY HIMSELF TO DEATH.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): ALMANAC ASTROLOGY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IF SOMEONE SWEEPS UNDER YOUR FEET, YOU WILL NEVER MARRY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IF YOU SWEEP UNDER THE BED OF A PATIENT, HE WILL DIE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): BROOM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IF YOU SING AT THE TABLE YOUR CHICKENS WILL DIE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IF A BIRD IS SITTING ON A WINDOWSILL LOOKING IN AT YOU,
SOMEONE WILL DIE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IF YOU DREAM OF A WHITE HORSE, SOMEONE WILL DIE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
NEVER HAND A PERSON AN OPEN KNIFE, BECAUSE IT WILL CUT YOUR
FRIENDSHIP.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Date learned: 07-00-1972
AT TRANSYLVANIA COLLEGE, WHEN THE LIGHT IN THE TOWER ON CAMPUS,
(SOMETHING MISSING) IT IS BELIEVED SOMEONE WILL DIE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- School BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
THE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD SAY ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH IS,
"RABBIT, RABBIT." SHOULD YOU FORGET, THEN THE LAST THING
BEFORE YOU GO TO BED (IT MUST BE BEFORE MIDNIGHT) YOU SHOULD
SAY IT BACKWARD, "TIBBAR, TIBBAR." YOUR LUCK WOULD NOT BE
AS GOOD BY SAYING IT AT NIGHT, BUT NOT AS BAD AS IF YOU
DIDN'T SAY IT AT ALL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Date learned: 06-22-1972
MRS. KIRBY TELLS THAT HER MOTHER-IN-LAW WOULD NOT WASH AND
HANG OUT CLOTHES BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S, FOR IF SHE
DID, SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY WOULD DIE DURING THE NEXT YEAR.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; ALBERTVILLE
Date learned: 06-17-1972
IF YOU LOOK IN A WELL ON MAY 1, AT 12:00, THROUGH A REFLECTING
MIRROR, YOU WILL SEE THE PERSON YOU ARE TO MARRY.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; ALBERTVILLE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May 1 May Day BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 06-17-1972
THE FIRST PERSON TO VISIT YOU ON NEW YEAR'S DAY WOULD "RULE
YOUR CHICKENS." THIS MEANS THAT IF YOUR FIRST VISITOR WERE
A MAN, MOST OF YOUR CHICKENS WOULD BE ROOSTERS; IF THE
VISITOR WERE A WOMAN, MOST OF THE CHICKENS WOULD BE HENS.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; ALBERTVILLE
Date learned: 06-17-1972
RISE ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE BED YOU GO TO BED ON.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
IF YOU MAKE A PILLOWCASE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY AND SLEEP ON IT
THAT NIGHT, YOU WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Date learned: 00-00-1972
THERE IS A BELIEF IN THE THEATRE THAT IT IS BAD LUCK TO WISH
AN ACTOR GOOD LUCK ON A PERFORMANCE. THE PERSON INSTEAD WISHES
THE ACTOR BAD LUCK BY SAYING "BREAK A LEG." THIS IN TURN WILL
BRING THE ACTOR GOOD LUCK ON HIS PERFORMANCE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CLARKSVILLE
| Subject headings: | DRAMA -- D000 BELIEF -- P82 BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance BELIEF -- Good luck SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN