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IF YOU PUT A LOT OF SALT ON YOUR FOOD, IT MEANS YOU
HAVE A GREAT CAPACITY TO LOVE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 02-18-1971
ITALIAN BELIEF
A PREGNANT WOMAN MUST NOT TOUCH HER FACE IN FRIGHT
BECAUSE THIS WILL CAUSE THE BABY TO BE MARKED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-10-1969
ITALIAN BELIEF
A PREGNANT WOMAN MUST NOT TOUCH HER FACE IN FRIGHT, LEST
THE BABY BE MARKED. SHE SHOULD, INSTEAD, PUT HER HANDS
ON THE BACK OF HER BUTTOCKS, SO THAT IF THE BABY IS
MARKED, IT WON'T SHOW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 12-00-1981
A PREGNANT WOMAN MUST NOT SIT WITH HER LEGS TUCKED
UNDERNEATH HER, BECAUSE THIS COULD CAUSE THE UNBORN
CHILD TO BE KILLED. I THINK THIS IS AN ITALIAN
BELIEF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALSO BAD FOR THE CIRCULATION.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-10-1969
THE RIGHT OVARY PRODUCES GIRLS; LEFT OVARY PRODUCES BOYS.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT ACTUALLY FOUND THIS IN THE ANN LANDERS
COLUMN OF THE "DETROIT NEWS."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; FARMINGTON ; DETROIT ; CHORUS OFFICE
| Subject headings: | Prophet / Seer / Soothsayer BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU RAISE BOTH YOUR ARMS OVER YOUR HEAD WHEN
YOU'RE PREGNANT, YOU WILL HAVE A BOY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 09-00-1969
PEOPLE THINK THAT THE HAIR AND FINGERNAILS ON CORPSES
CONTINUE TO GROW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
IF ONE OF YOUR WISDOM TEETH COMES OUT, ONE OF YOUR
RELATIVES WILL DIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; THAILAND ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-02-1971
THIS WAS COLLECTED WHILE AT VIRGINIA BEACH IN THE SUMMER
OF 1966. UPON LOOKING AT SEVERAL PEOPLE'S FEET,
MRS. SWEROCK MADE THE FOLLOWING REMARK; WHICH SHE HAD
HEARD WHEN A LITTLE GIRL:
IF A WIFE'S TOE NEXT TO THE BIG TOE IS TALLER THAN THE
BIG TOE, SHE WILL DIE BEFORE HER HUSBAND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN, ASSUMED ; WYANDOTTE ; VIRGINIA BEACH ; VIRGINIA, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN ; 00-00-1966
ALL THE LIES YOU TELL SHOW UP AS WHITE SPOTS IN
YOUR FINGERNAILS, AND WHEN YOU MAKE GOOD THOSE LIES,
THE WHITE MARKS DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 02-22-1967
A BLISTER ON YOUR TONGUE MEANS THAT YOU TOLD A LIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; EAST DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 04-02-1967
TO START THE DAY "ON THE RIGHT FOOT," ONE MUST COVER
THE RIGHT FOOT FIRST AND THE LEFT ONE LAST.
Submitter comment: FROM MOTHER.
Where learned: HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 11-05-1967
WHEN WHITE SPOTS COME TO THE TOP OF YOUR FINGERNAILS,
SOMETHING GOOD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU.
Submitter comment: TOLD BY MY GRANDMOTHER TO MY MOTHER AND ME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 02-22-1967
CHILDREN WHO EAT BREAD CRUST WILL HAVE CURLY HAIR.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED AS A CHILD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 11-25-1967
IF A MAN HAS A GAP BETWEEN HIS TWO FRONT TEETH, HE
LOVES WOMEN AND MONEY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PUTTING LEMON JUICE IN YOUR HAIR WHEN YOU WASH IT
WILL MAKE YOUR HAIR BLONDER.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
IF YOU PIERCE YOUR EARS AND THEN PUT EARRINGS
IN RIGHT AWAY, YOUR EYES WILL TURN GREEN.
Where learned: DETROIT ; PASTEUR SCHOOL ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 01-29-1968
YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EAT YOUR BREAD BECAUSE IT WILL
PUT HAIR ON YOUR CHEST, IF YOU DO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GRAND RAPIDS
James Callow Keyword(s): MASCULINITY ; VIRILITY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
IF YOU EAT THE CRUST OF YOUR BREAD, YOU'LL HAVE
CURLY HAIR.
Submitter comment: TAUGHT TO ME BY MY PARENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 12-04-1967
IF YOU EAT A LOT OF CARROTS YOU WILL HAVE CURLY
HAIR.
Submitter comment: SOURCE: FRIEND
Where learned: NOT GIVEN ; DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN