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MY COUSIN RONNIE INVENTED A TYPE OF MICROWAVE WHEN HE WAS A KID.
WE USED TO PUT OUR HANDS IN IT AND THEN RUN THEM ALONG FLOURESCENT
LIGHTS AND WATCH THE LIGHTS LIGHT UP. HE TRIED TO PATENT IT BUT IT
HAD ALREADY BEEN PATENTED BY SOMEONE ELSE. COUSIN RONNIE IS A
CERTIFIED GENIUS AND HIS SPECIALTY IS ELECTRONICS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 04-00-1984
IN TERRI'S NEIGHBORHOOD THERE IS A FAMILY WHO LITERALLY
LIVES THEIR WORLD IN BLACK AND WHITE. THEIR HOUSE IS WHITE
WITH BLACK SHUTTERS, THE NEW CAR IS WHITE (THE OLD ONE WAS
BLACK), ALL THE FURNITURE AND CARPETING IS WHITE WITH BLACK
HIGHLIGHTS. FINALLY EVEN THE FAMILY DOG IS BLACK.
THE LADY OF THE HOUSE IS SELDOM SEEM AND IF SHE IS YOU
CAN GUESS FOR YOURSELF WHAT COLOR CLOTHES SHE HAS ON.
WHEN TERRI WAS YOUNGER SHE SAID THAT ALL THE KIDS THOUGHT
THAT SHE WAS A WITCH. TODAY IT IS SAID THAT SHE IS NEVER SEEN
BECAUSE SHE IS ALLERGIC TO LIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
Keyword(s): RUMORS
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Human Being BELIEF -- Witch Shaman BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 10-00-1979
"SILVERKING"
THIS STORY WAS PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
IT TOOK PLACE SOMEWHERE IN THE OLD WEST, AROUND 1830.
MY FATHER TOLD IT TO ME, AND HIS FATHER TOLD IT TO HIM.
IT IS AN EXPLANATION FOR HOW MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER
MET HIS BRIDE.
GREAT-GREAT GRANDMA (BEFORE MEETING GREAT-GREAT GRANDPA) WAS
CAPTURED BY THE AMERICAN INDIANS. THEY TOOK HER BACK TO
THEIR CAMP AND TIED HER UP. SHE BECAME ENSLAVED TO THE REDMEN.
THEN, GREAT-GREAT GRANDPA CHARGED IN, RIDING HIS ARABIAN
STALLION NAMED SILVERKING. HE SAW GRANDMA, SWOOPED HER
UP, AND RESCUED HER. THEY WENT RIDING OFF, AND HE WAS A
HERO TO HER. SHE IMMEDIATELY MARRIED HIM, AND THE INDIANS
NEVER CAPTURED HER AGAIN.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT WAS EXCITED IN RETELLING THIS STORY!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Sterling Heights
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero BELIEF -- Human Being BELIEF -- Secular hero |
This is an expression I was told about in one of my
history classes. The saying...
"Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and
nuclear war"... came from a scientist who witnessed
the destruction from the first Atom Bomb.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Bonnet Man
During the night, a man dressed in a lady's dress and bonnet
walks up and down the street. Everyone in Lafayette knew about
him and were afraid to come out after dark.
Where learned: LOUISIANA ; LAFAYETTE
James Callow Keyword(s): Transvestite
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: 00-00-1935
HIS FAMILY BELIEVED THAT DEATH IS A JOYFUL EVENT AND
BIRTH IS A SORROWFUL ONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 09-22-1970
CIRCUMCISION RITE
THE CONTINUED USE OF FLINTS AS THE INSTRUMENT FOR
CIRCUMCISION UNTIL THE 17TH CENTURY IS CONNECTED TO
THE JEWISH LILITH MYTH. LILITH IS SAID TO BE
ADAM'S FIRST WIFE WHO LEFT HIM TO BEGET CHILDREN
WITH THE DEVIL.
IN ANCIENT TIMES, WHEN A GIRL WAS BORN, THE JEWS PUT AN
"X" ON THE WALL. FOR A BOY, THEY PUT AN "O"--
TO KEEP LILITH FROM INVADING THE SPIRIT OF THE BOY CHILD.
CIRCUMCISION BY FLINT WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN ONE FELL
SWOOP, AND EVOLVED FROM THE CIRCLE ON THE WALL
SUPERSTITION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: 02-24-1968
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BELIEF
IRISH PEOPLE HAVE BAD TEMPERS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
REDHEADS ARE TEMPERMENTAL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
IRISH PEOPLE DRINK TOO MUCH.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
SCOTTISH PEOPLE ARE THRIFTY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
GERMANS HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
LATINS MAKE THE BEST LOVERS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT ALL ALTOS ARE FAT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
THE GENERAL OPINION OR BELIEF OF MOSY MUSICIANS IS THAT ALL
BAND DIRECTORS ARE DUMB JOCKS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
THOUGH IN ACTUALITY THE KEYS OF "A SHARP" AND "B FLAT" ARE
IDENTICAL, IT HAS THROUGHOUT HISTORY BEEN THOUGHT THAT THE
SHARP KEYS SOUNDED BRIGHT AND HEROIC WHILE THE FLAT KEYS
SOUND MELANCHOLY AND DARK.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED BY MANY IN THE MUSIC PROFESSION
THAT THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SINGER AND A
MUSICIAN. THE MUSICIANS UNION HERE IN NASHVILLE DOES NOT
ACCEPT SINGERS AS MEMBERS, ONLY INSTRUMENTALISTS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT AL SOPRANOS ARE TEMPERMENTAL.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
ALL ITALIANS CAN SING. ALL ITALIAN MUSICIANS ARE SINGERS.
Submitter comment: BELIEVED BOTH BY PUBLIC AND MUSICIANS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN