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PATENT LEATHER SHOES
AT MERCY HIGH SCHOOL (FORMERLY DETROIT, NOW FARMINGTON,
MICHIGAN) ONE OF THE NUNS TOLD THE FRESHMAN GIRLS
IT WAS A MORTAL SIN TO WEAR PATENT LEATHER SHOES,
BECAUSE BOYS COULD LOOK AT THEM AND SEE THE REFLECTION
OF YOUR UNDERPANTS.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS ALSO REPORTED BY AN ALUMNUS OF SHRINE HIGH
SCHOOL IN ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
"MAD" MAGAZINE
A NUN AT HOLY NAME GRADE SCHOOL IN BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN
TOLD HER STUDENTS IT WAS A MORTAL SIN TO READ "MAD"
MAGAZINE, A COMIC, SATIRICAL MAGAZINE WHICH AT
THE TIME CONTAINED LITTLE OR NO SEXUAL MATERIAL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A RICH MAN BEGGED A GYPSY TO TELL HIS NEWLY BORN SON'S
FORTUNE. THE GYPSY SAID THAT THE SON WOULD DROWN
BEFORE HE WAS EIGHTEEN. THE ALARMED FATHER BUILT A
HUGE WALL AROUND HIS HOUSE AND HIRED PEOPLE TO
CONTINUALLY WATCH OVER HIS SON. YEARS PASSED. ONE
DAY THE BOY SLIPPED OUT OF THE HOUSE AND FOUND A
COOL STREAM. HE MERELY PUT HIS FEET IN AND AN UNDERTOW
PULLED HIM IN. SECONDS LATER, HIS FATHER FOUND HIM
DROWN.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT HIS WAS THE MOST POPULAR GYPSY
STORY IN ROMANIA AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.
INFORMANT SAID THAT THIS LEGEND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR
KEEPING MOST GYPSIES OUT OF THE MAJOR TOWNS IN
ROMANIA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ROMANIA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 PROSE NARRATIVE -- Running water Small current. Brook, spring.... |
Date learned: 11-08-1971
WHITE DRESSES
IN HIGH SCHOOL, THE NUNS TOLD THE GIRLS NOT TO WEAR
WHITE DRESSES TO THE PROM, BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE
THE BOYS THINK OF BEDSHEETS AND GIVE THEM "SINFUL"
THOUGHTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DANCE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NUN'S VEIL
MARY JO WAS TOLD BY HER FOURTH GRADE TEACHER SISTER
ANGELITA, S. S. J. THAT SHE COULDN'T TOUCH A SISTER'S
VEIL BECAUSE IT IS BLESSED.
Where learned: OAKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; ROCHESTER
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ACCORDING TO A NUN AT HOLY NAME GRADE SCHOOL IN BIRMINGHAM ,
MICHIGAN, IT WAS A MORTAL SIN FOR BOYS TO WEAR THEIR
BELT BUCKLES TO THE SIDE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A LOCAL MAN WAS EXPLAINING THAT HIS PSYCHIATRIST IS
VERY EXPENSIVE: "FOR EXAMPLE, FOR $50 ALL HE'LL DO
IS SENT YOU A GET-WELL CARD."
Where learned: RESIDENCE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
DEAN OF WOMEN TALE
FRIENDS OF MINE IN OTHER GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS WERE
TOLD BY THE NUNS NOT TO WEAR PATENT LEATHER
SHOES OR PEARLS, BECAUSE BOTH REFLECT.
Data entry tech comment: ONE CAN SEE THE REFLECTION OF UNDERWEAR IN PATENT
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 BELIEF -- P439 |
Date learned: 12-06-1967
BEFORE GOING TO THEIR SENIOR PROM, FRIENDS OF MINE
WERE TOLD BY THE NUNS TO BRING A TELEPHONE BOOK
ALONG, IN CASE THEIR DATES ASKED THEM TO SIT ON THEIR
LAPS. ALSO, THEY WERE CAUTIONED TO TAKE THEIR
GLOVES OFF CAREFULLY, BECAUSE IT MIGHT AROUSE THEIR
DATES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 BELIEF -- P439 |
Date learned: 12-06-1967
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LEGEND OF THE FIRST WOMAN IN NEW ORLEANS
THE FIRST TO SETTLE NEW ORLEANS WERE MEN, AND NO WOMEN.
THESE FRENCHMEN BECAME SOMEWHAT DOWNHEARTED OVER THE
LACK OF WOMEN, AND SO A DELEGATION WROTE THE KING OF
FRANCE AND GAVE AN ULTIMATUM TO HIM, WHICH CONSISTED
OF GIVING THE KING THE OPTION TO EITHER SEND OVER
WOMEN OR WATCH THE MEN COME HOME TO FRANCE. THE KING
WENT TO THE JAIL AND FOUND 400 WHORES AND THIEVES, AND
HE SENT THEM TO AMERICA. WELL, THIS WAS FINE FOR A
WHILE, BUT THEN THE NEW ORLEANS' MEN DECIDED THEY
NEEDED WIVES THAT WERE RESPECTABLE. THEY FELT THEY
COULD NOT MARRY THE WOMEN THAT WERE FIRST SENT OVER.
SO A DELEGATION WENT TO FRANCE TO CONVINCE AT LEAST
100 MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN TO COME TO NEW ORLEANS, AND
THIS THEY DID BY BRIBE OF MONEY. THESE GIRLS WERE
CALLED THE CASKETTE GIRLS. IT IS SAID THAT
STRANGELY ALL 400 OF THE WHORES WERE BARON {BARREN?}
YET THE 100 OR SO MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN BORE THE GREAT
SOCIETY OF NEW ORLEANS' ELITE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN GYPSIES ACCORDING
TO MRS. GARAZZO'S DECEASED MOTHER. ONCE, IN HER (THE
MOTHER'S) HAMLET IN ITALY, SHE (THE MOTHER) CONFESSED
TO THE PRIEST HAVING SAID THAT THE GYPSIES WERE
BEFORE THE TIME OF CHRIST, AND SAID THAT IT WAS
TRUE. THE PRIEST REFUSED TO GIVE HER ABSOLUTION.
SHE THEN WENT BACK TO THE PRIEST AND SHOWED HIM A
BOOK STATING THAT AS TRUE. THE PRIEST ABSOLVED HER
BUT TOLD HER NOT TO TELL THAT TO OTHER PEOPLE--
ABOUT THE GYPSIES HAVING LIVED BEFORE THE TIME OF
CHRIST.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: 10-26-1969
LEGEND ABOUT OLD NUNS
THE OLD PRUDISH NUNS WARN THE GIRLS NEVER TO WEAR WHITE
CLOTHES. THIS, THEY SAY, REMINDS BOYS OF BEDSHEETS.
Submitter comment:
I DO NOT RECALL IF THIS WAS TOLD TO ME BY OTHER GIRLS
IN HIGH SCHOOL (1964-1968) OR IT WAS ACTUALLY MENTIONED
BY THE NUNS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE ILE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: 10-27-1970
JESUIT STORY
JOHNNY WAS A LITTLE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A PRIEST, BUT HE
DIDN'T KNOW WHICH ORDER TO JOIN, SO JOHNNY WROTE TO GOD
ASKING GOD TO TELL JOHNNY WHICH COMMUNITY TO JOIN. WELL,
GOD RECEIVED THE LETTER AND WROTE BACK TO JOHNNY.
DEAR JOHNNY, (WROTE GOD)
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH COMMUNITY YOU JOIN BECAUSE THEY
ALL HAVE THE SAME PURPOSE--TO SERVE ME, SO YOU JUST
JOIN THE ONE YOU LIKE THE BEST.
YOURS TRULY,
GOD, S.J.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT WAS TOLD THIS STORY ON ENTERING THE JESUIT
COMMUNITY AND HE SAYS THAT THIS STORY IS TOLD TO ALL
INCOMING JESUITS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Supernatural Being PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: 03-29-1971
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PATENT LEATHER SHOES
AT MERCY HIGH SCHOOL (FORMERLY DETROIT, NOW FARMINGTON,
MICHIGAN) ONE OF THE NUNS TOLD THE FRESHMAN GIRLS
IT WAS A MORTAL SIN TO WEAR PATENT LEATHER SHOES,
BECAUSE BOYS COULD LOOK AT THEM AND SEE THE REFLECTION
OF YOUR UNDERPANTS.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS ALSO REPORTED BY AN ALUMNUS OF SHRINE HIGH
SCHOOL IN ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
"MAD" MAGAZINE
A NUN AT HOLY NAME GRADE SCHOOL IN BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN
TOLD HER STUDENTS IT WAS A MORTAL SIN TO READ "MAD"
MAGAZINE, A COMIC, SATIRICAL MAGAZINE WHICH AT
THE TIME CONTAINED LITTLE OR NO SEXUAL MATERIAL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A RICH MAN BEGGED A GYPSY TO TELL HIS NEWLY BORN SON'S
FORTUNE. THE GYPSY SAID THAT THE SON WOULD DROWN
BEFORE HE WAS EIGHTEEN. THE ALARMED FATHER BUILT A
HUGE WALL AROUND HIS HOUSE AND HIRED PEOPLE TO
CONTINUALLY WATCH OVER HIS SON. YEARS PASSED. ONE
DAY THE BOY SLIPPED OUT OF THE HOUSE AND FOUND A
COOL STREAM. HE MERELY PUT HIS FEET IN AND AN UNDERTOW
PULLED HIM IN. SECONDS LATER, HIS FATHER FOUND HIM
DROWN.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT HIS WAS THE MOST POPULAR GYPSY
STORY IN ROMANIA AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.
INFORMANT SAID THAT THIS LEGEND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR
KEEPING MOST GYPSIES OUT OF THE MAJOR TOWNS IN
ROMANIA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ROMANIA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 PROSE NARRATIVE -- Running water Small current. Brook, spring.... |
Date learned: 11-08-1971 ; 00001899-1900
WHITE DRESSES
IN HIGH SCHOOL, THE NUNS TOLD THE GIRLS NOT TO WEAR
WHITE DRESSES TO THE PROM, BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE
THE BOYS THINK OF BEDSHEETS AND GIVE THEM "SINFUL"
THOUGHTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DANCE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- B439 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN