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LIGHTNING BELIEF
LIGHTNING WILL NOT STRIKE THE SAME SPOT TWICE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1.2 BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 10-20-1968
ANGELS
LIGHTNING IS THE RESULT OF THE CLASHING OF THE SWORDS OF THE GODS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Gods BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 04-01-1968
LIGHTNING BELIEF
LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES IN THE SAME PLACE TWICE.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5280 Audubon
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1.2 BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
LIGHTNING BELIEF
A CANDLE IN EACH WINDOW WILL PREVENT
LIGHTNING FROM HITTING YOUR HOUSE.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 11-19-1968
Weather Omen
In the days before air pollution, a yellowish haze and extreme stillness indicated an oncoming tornado.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, where he probably learned this.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; FLORIDA ; NASHVILLE ; PENSACOLA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Weather Omen
Just before a hurricane hits, and hits really hard, the whole area is dead still except for gnats. There will be literally thousands of gnats around. Oftentimes people will abandon a certain coastal area entirely simply because of the numbers of gnats. For example, when Camille hit the Gulf Coast several years ago, one could hardly walk for the insects near the area, and even as far away as my home in Pensacola, Florida, about 150 miles away, the insects were fierce.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, where he probably learned this.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; FLORIDA ; NASHVILLE ; PENSACOLA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
BELIEF IN SNOWBALLS AND HAIL
DON'T MAKE SNOWBALLS, IF YOU DO HAIL WILL FALL DURING THE SPRING
AND RUIN THE CROPS.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S FAMILY TOLD HIM THIS WHILE HE LIVED IN POLAND.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant is collector's father.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 11-14-1971
TOADSTOOLS
IF YOU KICK A TOADSTOOL IT WILL RAIN.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S YARD HAD SEVERAL TOADSTOOLS GROWING IN IT, MY LITTLE SISTER SAW THEM AND WAS GOING TO KNOCK IT OUT AND THIS IS WHEN THE INFORMANT SAID THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CALUMET ; informant's home ; 1688 Laurium
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF IT RAINED WHEN A PERSON DIED, IT MEANT THAT THE ANGELS WERE CRYING FOR HIM AND HE WENT TO HEAVEN.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS TOLD TO THE INFORMANT WHEN HE WAS TEN YEARS OLD BY HIS PARENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE FARMS ; informant's home ; 138 Mapleton
Keyword(s): TEARS
Date learned: 10-03-1971
PROVERBIAL SAYING
IT WILL ALWAYS RAIN ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
WEATHER BELIEF
WHEN A TORNADO-LIKE WIND OR WHIRLING OF WATER APPEARS IN INDIA INHABITANTS WARN ONE NOT TO JUMP IN THE MIDDLE BECAUSE THERE IS A SPIRIT IN THE MIDDLE AND WHOEVER DOES WILL BECOME POSSESSED
BY THE DEVIL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; EAST QUAD ; informant's home
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Wind Whirlwind Hurricane Cyclone Tornado BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 03-05-1971
RECENT BELIEF
WHEN APOLLO ASTRONAUTS TOOK PART OF THE MOON, THAT CAUSED HURRICANES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; E313
James Callow Keyword(s): MODERN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Planet BELIEF -- Wind Whirlwind Hurricane Cyclone Tornado BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 11-02-1971