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IT'S BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE ON A MATCH.
Submitter comment: FORMULA SPEECH: NEVER LIGHT THREE ON A MATCH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE PARK
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 11-07-1971
IT IS CONSIDERED BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES
WITH THE SAME MATCH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 02-20-1971
NEVER LITE THREE CIGARETTES ON THE SAME MATCH. IT
IS A SIGN OF BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAYS THAT HIS GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS BELIEVED
THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 02-15-1971
THREE ON A MATCH IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 02-17-1970
IT IS BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES ON A MATCH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 03-00-1970
THREE ON A MATCH IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
IT IS BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES ON ONE MATCH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
THE THIRD PERSON TO HAVE HIS CIGARETTE LIT ON ONE
MATCH WILL EXPERIENCE BAD LUCK. IF THE THIRD
PERSON IS A FEMALE, SHE WILL BECOME PREGNANT.
Submitter comment:
THE FIRST STATEMENT OF THE SUPERSTITION IS COMMON
IN THE OSWALD FAMILY; THE SECOND I LEARNED FROM
MY COWORKERS THIS SUMMER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Body parts and functions BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 09-20-1967
IF SOMEONE IS LIGHTING OTHER PEOPLE'S CIGARETTES
WITH A MATCH, IT IS BAD LUCK IF HE USES THE SAME
MATCH TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES.
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THREE ON A MATCH STICK IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
IF THREE PEOPLE LIGHT THEIR CIGARETTE, IT IS BAD
LUCK--THAT IS, IF IT IS OFF THE SAME MATCH.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT SAID THAT HE THOUGHT THAT THIS
TRADITION STARTED DURING WORLD WAR I. HE SAID
THAT IF THREE SOLDIERS GOT A LIGHT ON THE SAME
MATCH, THE ENEMY WOULD HAVE TIME TO SPOT THEM
BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT FLICKERING.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 05-01-1965
LIGHTING THREE CIGARETTES ON A MATCH (IS BAD LUCK.)
THIRD GUY DIES IN AN HOUR.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: LIVING ROOM
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 11-04-1967
IF YOU LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES WITH ONE MATCH, THE THIRD
PERSON WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
I'VE ALSO HEARD PEOPLE SAY THAT THIRD ONE ON A
MATCH WILL DIE IN A WHORE HOUSE.
I LEARNED THIS FROM A FRIEND WHEN I FIRST STARTED
SMOKING, ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
THREE ON A MATCH IS BAD LUCK.
Data entry tech comment: REPORTED THIS ON VETERAN'S DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 11-11-1968
BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES OFF ONE MATCH.
Submitter comment: HEARD IT FROM HIS FRIEND.
Data entry tech comment: REPORTED ON VETERAN'S DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 11-11-1967
IT IS CONSIDERED BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES
FROM THE SAME MATCH. IT STARTED WHEN THREE SOLDIERS
ON A BATTLEFIELD WERE LIGHTING THEIR CIGARETTES
AND THE THIRD SOLDIER WAS SHOT BECAUSE THE
LINGERING LIGHT GAVE AWAY THEIR POSITION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple Favorites BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 12-01-1967
TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES WITH ONE MATCH IS A SIGN
OF BAD LUCK FOR THE ONE HOLDING THE MATCH.
Submitter comment:
OVERHEARD IN A CARLOAD OF GIRLS RIDING TO SCHOOL
IN APPROXIMATELY 1958.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
IT'S BAD LUCK TO LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES ON ONE MATCH.
Submitter comment:
THIS PROBABLY ORIGINATED, AS THE STORY GOES, DURING
WORLD WAR II. DURING THE TIME IT TAKES TO LIGHT
THREE CIGARETTES, AN AIRPLANE COULD GET A FIX ON
A POSITION AT NIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 09-17-1969
SUPERSTITION THAT THREE ON A MATCH IN WAR WILL
RESULT IN BAD LUCK FOR THE THIRD PERSON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: 11-00-1969
NEVER LIGHT THREE ON A MATCH AS IT WILL BRING
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck Numbers |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN