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SPINACH BELIEF
SPINACH GIVES YOU MUSCLES
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 03-05-1970
SASSAFRAS BELIEF
SASSAFRAS IS FOR ENERGY
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT NERB?
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-26-1970
CARROT BELIEF
IF YOU EAT CARROTS YOU CAN SEE IN THE DARK BETTER.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-22-1968
SPINACH BELIEF
EATING SPINACH WILL MAKE YOU STRONG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-13-1968
HEALTH BELIEF
'BEETS GIVE YOU RED BLOOD.'
MY INFORMANT SAID THAT HER MOTHER STRICTLY BELIEVED THAT,
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC MAGIC
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
CELERY BELIEF
CELERY MAKES A PERSON SEXY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
HOME BELIEF
USE A PEELED POTATO TO REMOVE ANY STUBBORN INK STAINS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: POSITIVE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Home |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
ECLIPSE
A WITCH MUST WAIT THREE HOURS AFTER EATING BEFORE
USING ANY WITCHCRAFT.
James Callow Keyword(s): NUMBER
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Witch Shaman |
PREDICTION
IF YOUR EYES WATER WITH YOUR FIRST TOTE ON THE PIPE
OR JOINT OF DOPE, THEN YOU'LL HAVE A VERY GOOD HIGH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye |
Date learned: 02-00-1971
ON DAD'S TRIPS THROUGH THE WOODS HE WOULD
CUT PIECES OF WOOD OFF "SLIPPERY ELM"
WHICH HE WOULD BRING HOME TO US TO USE
FOR CHEWING GUM.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PEORIA
Keyword(s): GUM
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
COUGH MEDICINE
MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO ALCOLHOL (SIC ), DRINK
MEDICATED COUGH MEDICINE IN LARGE PROPORTIONS TO GET HIGH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MEDICINE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption |
Date learned: 11-08-1968
PURPOSE OF CONSUMPTION
A BREW OF VODKA, COFFEE, MANDRAKE ROOT AND SESAME
SEED MAKES A POTENT APHRODISIAC.
Keyword(s): DRINK
| Subject headings: | Favorites Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption |
Date learned: 02-05-1970
NERVOUSNESS
CHEWING TOBACCO AND DIPPING SNUFF SETTLES THE NERVES.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 09-15-1969
SPECIAL FORM AND PURPOSE OBJECT OF BODILY CONSUMPTION
IN THE UKRAINE MOTHERS WOULD GIVE THEIR SMALL BABIES "KONOPLE"
(HEMP-MARIHUANA), TO INDUCE DROWSINESS, SO THAT THE CHILD WOULD
FALL ASLEEP QUICKLY.
THE MARIHUANA WAS GIVEN IN THE CHILD'S MILK, OR FOOD. SOMETIMES
IT WAS ALSO GIVEN STRIGHT, IN POWDER FORM.
Submitter comment: DRUG, MARIJUANA
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption |
Date learned: 11-26-1977
CHEWING GUM IN CHURCH
SATURDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING AND IN CHURCH IF YOU CHEW GUM IT
WOULD BE LIKE CHEWING A CADAVER
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT WOULD TELL HER CHILDREN THIS TO KEEP THEM FROM CHEWING
IN CHURCH FUNCTION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 10-00-1977
EAT YOUR BREAD CRUSTS AND YOU WILL GET CURLY HAIR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LINCOLN PARK
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 09-00-1981
ASPIRIN AND COKE
THERE IS A STORY THAT YOU SHOULD NEVER TAKE ASPIRIN WITH
COCA-COLA, BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU HIGH.
Submitter comment:
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE, BUT I KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN TRIED MORE
THAN ONCE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Earth |
Date learned: 00001960S
RURAL BLACK NEW YEAR'S CUSTOM
DURING THE DEPRESSION, IN LOUISVILLE, MISSISSIPPI IT WAS
CUSTOMARY AMONG BLACKS TO PREPARE HOG JOWLS AND BLACK-EYED
PEAS AS THE FIRST MEAL OF THE NEW YEAR. IT WAS THOUGHT
THAT THIS WOULD BRING GOOD LUCK FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR.
I DON'T THINK THAT ANYONE ACTUALLY BELIEVED THAT GOOD LUCK
COULD RESULT FROM EATING A PARTICULAR MEAL. IT WAS JUST
A CUSTOMARY THING TO DO. SOMETIMES, AFTER WE CAME NORTH,
WE WOULD STILL FIX THE MEAL FOR NEW YEAR'S. AFTER I GOT
MARRIED, IN 1950, I DON'T RECALL PREPARING ANY PARTICULAR
MEAL ON NEW YEAR'S.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT LIVED IN LOUISVILLE, MISSISSIPPI UNTIL BEING
SENT OVERSEAS IN WORLD WAR II. BY HIS RETURN, IN 1946,
THE FAMILY HAD MOVED TO DETROIT. THE INFORMANT HAS LIVED
IN DETROIT SINCE THAT TIME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Date learned: 09-00-1982
GESTURES--EATING (CHINESE)
"A POTENTIAL KIDNAPPER CAN TELL A RICH CHILD FROM A POOR ONE BY
THE WAY THE CHILD EATS FISH. THEY WOULD KIDNAP A CHILD AND GIVE
THE CHILD A PIECE OF FISH. IF THE CHILD EATS ANY PART OF THE FISH
EXCEPT FOR THE BELLY, THEY WILL KNOW HE IS POOR AND WILL LET HIM
GO. BUT IF THE CHILD EATS THE BELLY AREA OF THE FISH, THEY WILL
KNOW THAT THE CHILD IS FROM A WEALTHY FAMILY AND WILL HOLD HIM
FOR RANSOM."
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT SHE LEARNED THIS FROM HER MOTHER IN THAILAND.
HER MOTHER WAS ORIGINALLY FROM CHINA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate |
Date learned: 01-00-1984
KOREAN EATING CUSTOM
"THE KOREANS EXPRESS THE DELICIOSITY OF THEIR FOOD BY THE
NOISE THEY MAKE WHEN THEY EAT IT. IF THE FOOD IS GOOD, THEY'LL
MAKE A LOT OF NOISE WHEN THEY EAT."
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM A KOREAN STUDENT IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption SPEECH -- Phonology Phonetics |
Date learned: 02-00-1984