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CROPS GROWN ABOVE GROUND SHOULD BE PLANTED WHILE THE
MOON IS LIGHT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RED BOILING SPRINGS
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- P535 BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
ROOT CROPS SHOULD BE PLANTED WHEN THE MOON IS DARK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RED BOILING SPRINGS
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- P535 BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
ALWAYS PLANT BEANS ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; LAFAYETTE
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: 02-13-1972
TO MAKE A TREE LIVE LONGER, HAVE A YOUNG CHILD PLANT IT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
IN THE RIFLES COMPANY OF MARINES I WAS IN, WE SMOKED
CIGARS WHENEVER WE WENT INTO CAMP LeJEANS SWAMPS BECAUSE
WE TOLD EACH OTHER THAT IT KEPT GNATS AND MOSQUITOES
AWAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): CAMP LEJEUNE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: 06-18-1972
GREEK GHOSTS
BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF GRAVES THAT ARE IN GREECE,
ESPECIALY THOSE OF SOLDIERS, THE GREEKS BELIEVE
THAT THEY CAN HEAR THE CRYING OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE
WIND AT NIGHT.
Submitter comment: JAMES LEARNED THIS FROM HIS GRANDFATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOSTLY NOISES
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: 10-10-1967
THE STORY GOES THAT VIETNAM IS SO TERRIBLE THAT SOLDIERS
SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE LEG SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO
GO INTO BATTLE. THIS IS BELIEVED BY MOST PEOPLE WHO
HEAR IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Legend BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
GREEK GHOSTS
BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF GRAVES THAT ARE IN GREECE,
ESPECIALY THOSE OF SOLDIERS, THE GREEKS BELIEVE
THAT THEY CAN HEAR THE CRYING OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE
WIND AT NIGHT.
Submitter comment: JAMES LEARNED THIS FROM HIS GRANDFATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOSTLY NOISES
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: 10-10-1967
THE STORY GOES THAT VIETNAM IS SO TERRIBLE THAT SOLDIERS
SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE LEG SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO
GO INTO BATTLE. THIS IS BELIEVED BY MOST PEOPLE WHO
HEAR IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Legend BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ROTC=ROTTEN OLD TIN CANS.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ACRONYM ; JOKE ; MILITARY ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN
James Callow Keyword(s): ACRONYM ; ROTC:MILITARY TRAINING UNIT. ; SATIRE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School BELIEF -- P535 SPEECH -- To Be Seen |
Date learned: 02-15-1970
Don't Skip a Row
Don't skip a row in planting or someone in your family will die.
Submitter comment:
Informant's informant was an African-American woman living in Detroit, but originally from New Orleans.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P535 BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
If the corn crop isn't knee high by the fourth of July it will be a bad year for corn.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; JACKSON ; 7401 Benton Road
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- June 21 solstice to September 22 BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- P535 |
My father used to always say on the farm:
If you never plow up a bird's next that means there'll be no bugs on the crops for the coming year.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19357 Carrie
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P535 |
Never plant potatoes next to onions because the onions will get into the potato eyes.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; JACKSON ; 107 Avendale
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- P535 |
When planting potatoes each slice must have three eyes.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; JACKSON ; 107 Avendale
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P535 |