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SUPERSTITION
DON'T HOLD AN ANIMAL IN A LIGHTNING STORM--ELECTRICITY WILL
GO FROM HIS FUR TO YOU.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT BELIEVES THIS. THE REASON SHE GIVES IS HUMANS OFTEN HAVE
ELECTRICITY IN THEIR HAIR AND SINCE THE ANIMAL IS COVERED WITH
HAIR, THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE THAT LIGHTNING WILL TRANSMIT
TO THE ANIMAL DURING A STORM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 10-10-1977
BIRTH
COBRA.
Submitter comment:
THEY STOPPED THIS CUSTOM BECAUSE TOO MANY MOTHERS WERE GETTING BITE
AND DYING
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 02-22-1979
DREAMS
WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SNAKES, YOU HAVE ENEMIES. IF YOU KILL THE
SNAKES YOU WILL OVERCOME YOUR ENEMIES.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; MILLEDGEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Dreams Untamed varieties BELIEF -- Dreams P841.61 |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
SNAKES
PUTTING SULPHUR AROUND YOUR HOUSE AND YARD WILL KEEP AWAY SNAKES.
THE SULFUR IS SUPPOSE TO SMELL LIKE A SNAKES,S HIDE BURNING.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; MILLEDGEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
SNAKES
A RATTLESNAKES'S TAIL WILL NOT DIE UNTIL SUNSET OF THE NEXT DAY.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; MILLEDGEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
SNAKES
BURN ALL SNAKES THAT YOU KILL, IT WILL KEEP OTHERS AWAY.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; MILLEDGEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
IF YOU STEP ON A SPIDER IT WILL RAIN.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT DORMS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00-00-1978
OYSTERS MAKE YOU FERTILE.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT DORMS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
LEGEND
IN OWENS MARINA IN ST. CLAIR MICHIGAN, IT IS KNOWN THAT A DOG WHO
ONCE HAD HIS BODY COMPLETELY CHOPPED UP IN
A PROPELLER OF A MAFIA GANGSTER
WAS REINCARNATED INTO A SEA MONSTER.
THE STORY WARNED BOAT OWNERS WHO
WERE CARELESS WITH THEIR DOGS THAT IF
THEY DID NOT KEEP A CONSTANT EYE
ON THEIR BELOVED PETS WHILE ON THE BOAT, THE SEA MONSTER WOULD ATTAC
AND KILL NOT ONLY THEIR PETS, BUT ALSO THE WHOLE FAMILY. SOME EVEN
BELIEVED THAT THE BOAT ITSELF WOULD BE CONSUMED AND WOULD NEVER
BE FOUND AGAIN. FURTHERMORE, THE SEA MONSTER WOULD DO HIS DIRTY WOR
WITHOUT EVEN LEAVING A TRACE OF SUSPECT AND EVEN THE COAST GUARD WAS
KNOWN TO FEAR HIM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TROY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
LEGEND
ON BLISS STREET IN DETROIT, NEIGHBORS TELL OF A LOST TURTLE THAT
WILL ONE DAY RETURN AND GOBBLE
A CHILD BECAUSE IT WILLHAVE GROWN SO
LARGE AND GOTTEN SO OLD AND HUNGRY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. IT APPEARS
THAT A WOMAN HAD SEVERAL PET TURTLES WHICH SHE LOVED AND TO HELP
GIVE THEM THE EXERCISE THEY NEEDED, SHE WOULD RELEASE THEM
IN HER YARD KEEPING A CAREFUL WATCH OVER THEM SO NO BIRD WOULD ATTAC
OR EAT THEM. ONE DAY, SHE LOST ONE AND THOUGH SHE SEARCHED FOR
HOURS, SHE JUST COULD NOT FIND IT. THE NEIGHBORS ALSO JOINED IN
AND HELPED HER BUT THE TURTLE COULD NOT BE FOUND ANYWHERE. THE
LADY ALWAYS HOPED THAT THE TURTLE WOULD COME BACK AND BE HER
FRIEND, BUT, OF COURSE THE TURTLE NEVER DID AND SO THE LADY HAS FELT
HE WILL COME BACK AT A LATER DATE AND DEVOUR A CHILD IN REVENGE FOR
HER CARELESSNESS IN WATCHING THE LITTLE ANIMAL AND NOT PROTECTING
HIM WHEN HE NEEDED HER HELP.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
JAPANESE SEA-HORSE
PREGNANT JAPANESE WOMEN WILL WEAR A DRIED SEA HORSE.
IT IS A CHARM FOR SAFE CHILD BIRTH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GOOD LUCK CHARM ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): AMULET
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Birth BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
CHRISTMAS SONGS
POLISH CAROLS, KOLENDY, ARE SUNG AT MIDNIGHT MASS, OR THE PASTERKA
CALLED SHEPHERDS' WATCH. MANY PEOPLE IN OUR VILLAGE BELIEVED THAT
WHILE WE SANG AND PRAYED, PEACE DESCENDED ON THE WORLD. ANIMALS
ASSUMED VOICES AT THIS TIME, WHICH ONLY WAS HEARD BY THE INNOCENT OF
HEART.
Submitter comment:
CHRISTMAS SONGS BROUGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER TO PRAISE THE EARTH AND
HAVE SOME FUN. IT WAS A TIME OF BEING WITH FRIENDS.
Where learned: POLAND ; WARSAW ; MIELIEC
Date learned: 00-00-1940
ST. PATRICK DROVE ALL THE SNAKES OUT OF IRELAND; HE
DROVE THEM INTO THE SEA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
CHINESE CUSTOM-BELIEF
THE CHINESE NAME EACH YEAR AFTER AN ANIMAL IN A CYCLE OF
TWELVE ANIMALS. SOME ANIMALS ARE LUCKY, SOME NOT; HENCE CERTAIN
YEARS WILL BRING GOOD FORTUNE, OTHERS BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT TRAVELLED
Where learned: OFFICE
Keyword(s): CALENDARS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Measure of time Year BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck SPEECH -- Proper Name |
Date learned: 10-03-1967
IF YOU KILL THE FIRST SNAKE YOU SEE IN THE YEAR, THEN
YOU WILL HAVE CONQUERED ALL YOUR ENEMIES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Measure of time Year |
Date learned: 00001928CA
IF YOU WHISTLE AT NIGHT, YOU ARE INVITING SNAKES INTO YOUR HOME.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT TOLD ME THAT IT IS DANGEROUS TO HAVE SNAKES IN YOUR
HOME IN AFRICA BECAUSE MANY ARE POISONOUS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 03-00-1982
WARTS ARE CAUSED BY HANDLING TOADS.
Where learned: OHIO ; CONTINENTAL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001909-00001919 CHILDHOOD, 00001922-00001929, TEEN AGE YEARS
HER GRANDFATHER TOLD HER THAT TURTLES USED TO COME ONTO THE
BEACH AT GULF SHORES, ALABAMA, BIG ENOUGH THAT MEN COULD
RIDE ON THEM.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; BALDWIN COUNTY ; FOLEY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-00-1980
IT IS BELIEVED THAT SNAKES GOBBLE DOWN THE EYES OF DEAD PEOPLE.
Where learned: GUADELOUPE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- P576 |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
ANIMAL FOOD
HARD-BOILED EGGS ARE GOOD FOR ALMOST ANY ANIMAL.
Submitter comment:
WHEN OUR CAT BROUGHT IN A LITTLE RABBIT THAT IT HAD CAUGHT
BUT NOT KILLED, OUR NEIGHBOR FED IT HARD-BOILED EGGS,
AND IT HOPPED OFF LIVELY. HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, WHO WAS FROM
WARSAW, POLAND, CLAIMED THAT JUST ABOUT ANY ANIMAL WOULD
EAT AND BENEFIT FROM HARD-BOILED EGGS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GIBRALTAR
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Animal product Egg BELIEF -- Animal |