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BLISTER SUPERTITION
A BLISTER ON YOUR TONGUE MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TOLD A LIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): LYING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
IF YOU TELL A LIE, A BUMP WILL APPEAR ON YOUR TONGUE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED FROM PEERS.
Data entry tech comment: THIS SECTION OF THE ARCHIVES CONTAINS SEVERAL SIMILAR ITEMS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): LYING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 01-26-1971
RELIGIOUS BELIEF
IF YOU SAY A "HAIL MARY" FOR EACH ONE OF YOUR TEETH,
THEN SAINT POLLONIA WILL PROTECT YOUR TEETH FROM HARM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; KALAMAZOO
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 02-18-1971
DEATH CUSTOM
IF ONE OF YOUR WISDOM TEETH COMES OUT
ONE OF YOUR RELATIVES WILL DIE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS IN THAILAND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body Favorites BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-12-1971
POST DEATH BELIEF
IF A BABY BOY IS BORN WITH A TOOTH IN HIS MOUTH
A PERSON IS SELECTED TO WATCH HIM AFTER HE DIES
ON THE EVE OF HIS FUNERAL.
THIS IS BECAUSE ON THIS NIGHT THE BODY WILL SIT UP
IN THE COFFIN AND THIS SELECTED PERSON
MUST PUSH HIM BACK DOWN AGAIN SO THAT HE MAY REST IN PEACE.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-04-1969
CHILDREN'S FAIRY TALE
WHEN YOU LOSE A TOOTH YOU SHOULD PLACE IT UNDER
YOUR PILLOW AT NIGHT.
THE GOOD FAIRY WILL BUY IT FROM YOU
AND USE THE TOOTH TO HELP BUILD A CASTLE.
Keyword(s): TOOTH FAIRY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
GOOD LUCK BELIEF
IF A CHILDS TOOTH HAS JUST BEEN TAKEN OUT
HE WILL IMMEDIATELY GET ON TOP OF THE ROOF
FOR GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS IN THAILAND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 02-12-1971
TONGUE
A TINGLING TONGUE MEANS SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S FATHER BELIEVES THIS TO BE TRUE
AND TOLD THIS TO INFORMANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 03-06-1971
LUCK IN FISHING
YOU SHOULD SPIT ON YOUR HOOK TO CATCH FISH QUICKLY.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Fish |
Date learned: 11-20-1968
Superstition: Pregnancy
IF A HARE PASSES IN FRONT OF A PREGNANT WOMAN, HER CHILD WILL BE BORN
WITH A HARELIP UNLESS SHE MAKES A TEAR IN HER SLIP.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added and information updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; informant's home
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; BELIEF ; CURSE ; Deformity ; Hare ; Offspring ; PREGNANCY ; Rabbit ; SUPERSTITION
James Callow Keyword(s): IMITATIVE MAGIC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 01-22-1970
TO SPIT ON A NEW-BORN BABY
WHENEVER A WOMAN LOOKS AT ANOTHER'S NEW BORN BABY THEY MUST HAVE A
LITTLE SALIVA FALL UPON THE CHILD. IF NOT, THE EVIL EYE IS CAST UPON
THE BABY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Curse SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
BODY PART BELIEF
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS ARE MY TWO FRONT TEETH
Submitter comment: CHILDREN SAY THIS AFTER LOSING THEIR TWO FRONT TEETH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 00001960S
BODY PART BELIEF
ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL
Submitter comment: MY FATHER ( A DENTIST ) TELLS HIS PATIENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
PREDICTION DIVINATION BELIEF
IF YOU TOUCH THE SOFT SPOT ON A BABY'S HEAD, THE ROOF OF HIS MOUTH
WILL CAVE IN
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HER SISTER, GRACIA ESQUIVEL WHO IS A
HOUSEWIFE OF 23.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Head, physiognomy, face BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 02-07-1980
WHEN YAWNING YOU MUST COVER YOUR MOUTH IN ORDER
TO KEEP AWAY BAD SPIRITS FROM ENTERING YOUR BODY.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
BLISTERS ON THE TONGUE CAN BE CAUSED BY TELLING LIES.
Where learned: OHIO ; CONTINENTAL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001909-00001919 CHILDHOOD, 00001922-00001929, TEEN AGE YEARS
MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME THAT WHOEVER IS FIRST TO FIND A BABY'S TOOTH
IN THE BABY'S MOUTH WILL GET NEW SHOES IF IT'S A MAN AND A NEW DRESS
IF IT'S A WOMAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 00001950CA
A LARGE MOUTH REVEALS A GENEROUS AND SENSUOUS PERSON
WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND A SMALL MOUTH INDICATES A PERSON
WITH A COLD AND SELFISH PERSONALITY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 00001980S
As a young child when your front teeth come out or you get
them pulled out you are supposed to save them so that an angel
will touch them and you will be blessed with white teeth.
Submitter comment: I am still waiting.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
Wisdom Teeth
The Wisdom Teeth are so called because by the time a normal
person has them, he is an intelligent adult.
James Callow comment:
See Puckett, Ohio No. 6037: "You will never have much knowledge
until you have cut your wisdom teeth."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 02-02-1992