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IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, YOU'LL HAVE
BAD LUCK FOR THE REST OF THE DAY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT DOESN'T REMEMBER (SOURCE).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 00001967 AUTUMN
JUST SEEING A BLACK CAT IS BAD LUCK, IN MEXICO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ANN ARBOR
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-04-1968
IT IS BAD LUCK IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 04-02-1968
DON'T LET A BLACK CAT CROSS YOUR PATH.
Where learned: CAR
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-15-1968
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, BAD LUCK WILL
FOLLOW WITHIN TWO WEEKS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-21-1968
NEVER CROSS THE PATH OF A BLACK CAT.
Submitter comment: THIS IS A SUPERSTITION THAT'S KNOWN TO EVERYONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-15-1971
IF A BLACK CROSSES YOUR PATH FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, IT
IS BAD LUCK. IT IS VERY INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT
IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE OR IT IS NOT BAD LUCK IF
THE CAT CROSSES FROM YOUR RIGHT TO YOUR LEFT.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT ALTHOUGH NOT AN AVID SUPERSTITION
BELIEVER, STILL IS AWARE AND CONSCIOUS OF THESE
SUPERSTITIONS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GERMANY ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 01-00-1971
A BLACK CAT WITH WHITE PAWS IS CONSIDERED BAD LUCK.
IF THE CAT IS BLACK AND HAS A WHITE STOMACH, IT'S
GOOD LUCK. IF A CAT IS DEAD, YOU HAVE TO HANG IT ON
A TREE BRANCH. IF IT IS A DEAD DOG, YOU THROW IT
IN THE RIVER.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT OBSERVED THIS IN TAIWAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TAIWAN
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Good luck Animals BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-12-1971
A BLACK CAT CROSSING THE STREET IN FRONT OF YOU
MEANS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-04-1971
IF A BLACK CAT WALKS TO THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF
A ROAD, IT IS A SIGN OF BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS IN CHILDHOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 01-26-1971
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH ON THE LEFT SIDE
WHILE IT IS RAINING, YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO
LEAVE YOUR HOUSE ALL DAY, OR ELSE YOU WILL HAVE
A STREAK OF BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SEEMED TO GET MORE AND MORE UPSET JUST
TELLING ME ABOUT HIS MOTHER'S BELIEFS AND HE
COMMENTED THAT HE THOUGHT ANYONE WHO BELIEVED IN
SUCH MESS WAS CRAZY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals BELIEF -- Control Prevention Provocation Protection P892.3 |
Date learned: 12-01-1971
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, BAD LUCK WILL
FOLLOW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-12-1971
IF A BLACK CAT RUNS ACROSS THE ROAD IN FRONT OF YOU,
THAT IS CONSIDERED BAD LUCK FOR THAT DAY.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; ROCHESTER
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-11-1972
IF YOUWERE WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND SAW A BLACK
CAT, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO TURN AROUND AND WALK THE
OPPOSITE WAY.
Submitter comment:
IF YOU DIDN'T TURN AROUND AND GO THE OPPOSITE WAY,
YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals BELIEF -- Conversions |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IN UKRAINE, IT IS BELIEVED THAT IF A CAT (NOT
SPECIFICALLY BLACK) CROSSES YOUR PATH, IT MEANS
BAD LUCK. HOWEVER, IF A DOG CROSSES YOUR PATH
IT MEANS GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM GRANDPARENTS
IN UKRAINE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; UKRAINE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Good luck Animals BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-01-1967
IN GERMANY, IT IS CONSIDERED BAD LUCK TO TIE UP
CATTLE OR SELL THEM ON ASH WEDNESDAY.
Where learned: GERMANY
| Subject headings: | 663 Ash Wednesday Favorites BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 12-08-1967
IF YOU JUMP OVER A DOG, JUMP OVER HIS TAIL TOO
FOR GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-15-1969
EVERY TIME HIS SISTER'S BOYFRIEND CAME OVER, HE
WOULD CRINGE WITH FEAR WHENEVER THE DOG CAME
NEAR HIM. HIS BELIEF WAS THAT DOGS BROUGHT
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-00-1967