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A CHILD BORN WITH A VEIL OVER HIS FACE WILL HAVE SPIRITUAL POWERS.
Submitter comment:
HER BROTHER WITH A VEIL OVER HIS FACE AND HE IS CONSIDERED TO BE
A VERY SPIRITUAL MAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Ortonville
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Witch Shaman BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Curer |
Date learned: 00-00-1987 ; 00001930S CA.
DO NOT SCARE OR STARTLE A PREGNANT WOMAN WITH A SNAKE OR ANYTHING
ELSE OR THE CHILD WILL HAVE A BIRTHMARK RESEMBLING SAME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Ortonville
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Specific distinguishing characteristic Dimple, wart, mole, scar, freckle, birthmark, strawberry mark, bruise, spot (on any part of body) BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 11-00-1987 ; 00001930S CA.
PLACING A RED RIBBON ON A NEWLY BORN BABY'S CRIB WILL WARD OFF
EVIL SPIRITS.
Submitter comment:
LEARNED AT A SUMMER ETHNIC CAMP
A LIST OF ITEMS COMPILED BY THE CAMP DIRECTOR BUT LOST BY THE
INFORMANT
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 07-00-1975
IT IS CONSIDERED GOOD LUCK TO TIE A STRING OF THREAD AROUND A NEW
BORN BABY'S WRIST AND TIE SEVEN KNOTS INTO THE THREAD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): SEVEN KNOTS
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR
IF A PREGNANT LADY IS ALWAYS BOTHERED BY A CERTAIN PERSON, THEN
THAT'CN MOCK, REGGIE IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR
IF A PREGNANT WOMAN WISHES FOR A LITTLE GIRL, SHE WILL HAVE A LITTLE
BOY, IF SHE WISHES FOR A LITTLE BOY, SHE WILL HAVE HER WISH TO HAVE
A LITTLE BOY. THAT'S WHY THERE ARE MORE BOYS IN THE WORLD
THAN GIRLS. YOU ONLY HAVE A LITTLE GIRL BY CHANCE OR LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Good luck |
IF YOU DREAM THAT A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY IS DYING THEN SOMEONE IN
YOUR FAMILY IS PREGNANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): COMPENSATION ; OPPOSITES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Dreams |
Date learned: 00-00-1965 ; 10-20-1987
IF YOU DREAM ABOUT A FISH IT MEANS THAT SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY IS
PREGNANT AND DOESN'T KNOW IT.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fish BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Dreams |
Date learned: 11-00-1980
IF A PREGNANT WOMAN IS CARRYING HER CHILD LOW THEN HER BABY
WILL BE A BOY.
Where learned: INDIANA ; INDIANAPOLIS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 11-00-1987
IF AN ESKIMO MAN HAS COMMITTED A CRIME ON SOMEONE, HIS UNBORN
CHILDREN WILL HAVE NO TEETH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-10-1987
IF YOU DREAM OF A WEDDING IT IS A SIGN OF BIRTH.
Submitter comment: POLISH SUPERSTITION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 10-10-1987
If a baby girl is desired, put a hatchet under the bed.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001940S
WHEN I WAS PREGNANT WITH MY FIRST CHILD I CONTINUALLY HAD
CRAVINGS FOR STRAWBERRIES. I WAS KNOWN TO EAT STRAWBERRIES
MORE THAN 3 TIMES IN A GIVEN DAY. MY MOTHER ONCE TOLD ME TO
STOP THIS HABIT OR MY CHILD WOULD LOOK LIKE A STRAWBERRY.
SHE SAID THAT IN THE OLD COUNTRY (HUNGARY), SUCH THINGS HAD
HAPPENED MANY TIMES. SHE SAID THAT MY CHILD WOULD CARRY WITH
HER, FOREVER, A REMINDER OF MY CRAVING. AS IT GOES, MY FIRST
CHILD WAS BORN WITH A STRAWBERRY SHAPED BIRTHMARK ON HER LEFT
LEG. NOW, SOME 25 YEARS LATER, SHE STILL HAS THE BIRTHMARK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHGATE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
ONLY THOSE BORN IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER SHOULD WEAR THE OPAL,
IT WILL BRING ALL OTHERS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WHITMORE LAKE
James Callow Keyword(s): JEWELRY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F100 BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- P647 BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-24-1988
THE ANCIENT GREEKS BELIEVED THAT THE WOMB HAD TWO POUCHES,
THE ONE ON THE RIGHT FOR MALE INFANTS AND THE ONE ON THE
LEFT FOR FEMALE INFANTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-01-1988
PREGNANT WOMEN SHOULD NOT GO TO FUNERALS AND LOOK UPON
THE DECEASED PERSON; OTHERWISE THEIR CHILD WILL LOOK LIKE
THE DECEASED PERSON THEY SAW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Marriage |
"MONDAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE,
TUESDAY'S CHILD IS FULL OF GRACE,
WEDNESDAY'S CHILD IS FULL OF WOE,
THURSDAY'S CHILD HAS FAR TO GO,
FRIDAY'S CHILD IS LOVING AND GIVING,
SATURDAY'S CHILD WORKS FOR A LIVING,
AND SUNDAY'S CHILD IS FAIR AND WISE AND GOOD AND GAY."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 02-20-1990
IF YOU SEE A PERSON WHO WAS BORN WITH RED HAIR, IT MEANS
THAT THEIR PARENTS MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL SOMETIME
THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 04-01-1990
This actually happened to my informant's great-
grandmother. If a pregnant woman happens to get
injured and touches a part of her body the baby will
have a mark on that part of it's body.
As in the case I learned about, the woman's great-
grandmother slipped and twisted her ankle. When she
fell she held her ankle in pain. When the baby was
born she had a hand print around the same ankle that
was injured in the mother's slip and fall!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001988 ca
If a pregnant woman sees something die, like an animal
or a person, during her pregnancy the baby will have
a birth-mark in the shape of the animal or person
that she saw die.
My informant seemed quite sure about this. Someone
that she knew saw a person get hit by a car when she
was pregnant and her baby had what looked like a red
mark shaped like a person on its back.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00001988 ca