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A MAN COULD BE SCARED OUT OF HIS SEVEN SENSES.
Submitter comment: FROM BOYFRIEND
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several |
Date learned: 10-08-1967
HOLY WEEK CUSTOM
AN ITALIAN CUSTOM FOR HOLY THURSDAY IS TO VISIT SEVEN CHURCHES.
A FAMILY WOULD SPEND A HALF-HOUR IN EACH CHURCH AND SAY PRAYERS AS A
FORM OF PENANCE.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS DONE IN ITALY BUT NOT IN THE UNITED STATES. THE FAMILY
WOULD WALK TO EACH CHURCH, SO THEY PICKED THOSE THAT WERE CLOSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | 663 Holy Thursday 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several Favorites BELIEF -- Church BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 02-25-1982
CREOLE BELIEF
BROKEN MIRROR IS SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK
Where learned: CALIFORNIA ; BREAUX BRIDGE ; LOS ANGELES
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Measure of time Year BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1930
SUPERSTITION
DROP A MIRROR AND IT BREAKS MEANS SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Furniture (bed, table, chair, etc.) |
IF YOU TAKE AN EGG LAID ON GOOD FRIDAY AND YOU PUT IT UNDER YOUR
ARM UNTIL SUNDAY, A SEVEN HEADED MONSTER WILL COME OUT. HE SHOULD
CALL YOU "MASTER". IF NOT, YOU START SMASHING HIS HEADS UNTIL HE
CALLS YOU MASTER. THEN YOU CAN ASK HIM WHATEVER YOU WANT. TO GET
RID OF HIM, YOU THROW HIM IN THE SEA WITHOUT LOOKING.
Where learned: GUADELOUPE
James Callow Keyword(s): GENIE
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday Food Drink -- Animal product Egg BELIEF -- Abnormal in size |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
BREAKING A MIRROR WILL BRING YOU SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK.
Where learned: GUADELOUPE
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 00-00-1969
YOU SHOULD TURN YOUR TONGUE SEVEN TIMES IN YOUR MOUTH BEFORE
TALKING FOR YOU NOT TO SAY STUPIDITIES.
Where learned: GUADELOUPE
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
BLACK CATS ARE BELIEVED TO BE EVIL. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BRING
BAD LUCK. SOME PEOPLE USE BLACK CATS TO DO WITCHCRAFT.
Submitter comment: IT IS SAID THAT CATS HAVE SEVEN LIVES; THEY DO NOT DIE THAT EASY.
Where learned: GUADELOUPE
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
IF YOU KILL A CAT YOU WILL HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK.
Where learned: GUADELOUPE
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
IN ORDER TO CURE SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN SICK, THE "QUIMBOISEUR" WILL
GIVE THE PERSON A BATH USING THE SAME WATER THAT SEVEN DOGS HAD
BEEN BATHED IN.
Where learned: GUADELOUPE
Keyword(s): "QUIMBOISEUR" IS SOMEONE THAT PRACTICES WITCHCRAFT AND WHITE MAGIC.
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
THERE IS A MASQUERADE CALLED "ORO" THAT SHOWS UP ONCE IN A YEAR
IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF NIGERIA. IT IS FORBIDDEN FOR WOMEN TO
SEE IT. IF ANY WOMAN SEES IT, SHE WILL DIE BEFORE THE SEVENTH DAY.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANTS LOOKED SCARED WHILE NARRATING ITEM.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Form Grouping Movement BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-00-1984
IF A BABY IS TEETHING YOU ARE TO GET SOME WHITE THREAD WITH
SEVEN WHITE BUTTONS FROM THE SAME SHIRT PUT IT AROUND THE BABIES
NECK AND HE OR SHE WON'T BE FRETFUL.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; CENTERVILLE
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Use of Object |
Date learned: 01-15-1984
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR YOU WILL HAVE SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; CENTERVILLE
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 04091984CA
CHRISTMAS IN ITALY
THIS IS THE WAY MRS. POPP CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS
UNTIL SHE WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD, WHEN SHE AND HER FAMILY
MOVED TO AMERICA, LEAVING THE TRADITIONS IN ITALY.
CHRISTMAS IN ITALY STARTS IN EARLY FALL AND ENDS ON JANUARY 6
WITH THE ARRIVAL OF LA BAFANA, SANTA'S ASSISTANT.
IN THE EARLY FALL THE YOUNG CHILDREN WOULD GO HOUSE TO
HOUSE BEGGING FOR WOOD, PREPARING FOR THE MOST EXCITING
PART OF THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, THE GIANT BONFIRE. EVERY YEAR
THE BIGGEST THICKEST LOG, CALLED THE YULE LOG WAS SAVED
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FOR GOOD LUCK. INSTEAD OF A CHRISTMAS
TREE ITALIANS SET UP A PRESEPIO, AN ELABORATE MODEL OF
BETHLEHEM. THE CRADLE WAS LEFT EMPTY UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE
WHEN A SPECIAL CHILD WAS GIVEN THE HONOR OF PLACING THE
SMALL STATUE IN THE CRADLE. AT THE CENONE (GREAT BIG DINNER)
SEVEN DIFFERENT KINDS OF FISH ARE SERVED. BEFORE THE FAMILY
GOES TO BED THEY LEAVE CAKES AND CANDY ON THE TABLE AS AN OPEN
INVITATION FOR MARY AND HER SMALL CHILD TO SPEND THE NIGHT.
THIS WAS THEIR WAY OF TELLING MARY THAT THEY NEVER WANTED HER
TO LOOK FOR A PLACE TO LAY HER CHILD, SHE WAS ALWAYS WELCOME
IN THEIR HOMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Date learned: 02-00-1984
IF IT RAINS ON EASTER SUNDAY, IT WILL RAIN ON SEVEN CONSECUTIVE
SUNDAYS AFTERWARDS.
Submitter comment:
THIS FOLK BELIEF WAS COMMUNICATED TO BRIAN BY HIS MOTHER WHEN
BRIAN WAS A CHILD AND GROWING UP IN RURAL OHIO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 11-02-1984 ; 00001960S
WHEN YOU BREAK A MIRROR, YOU WILL
HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: SHE DID NOT BELIEVE IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1976 ; 00-00-1985
THE XHOSA TRIBE OF SOUTH AFRICA HAD AN INITIATION
RITE INVOLVING CIRCUMCISION. WHEN A BOY REACHED FIFTEEN,
HE WAS TO BE CIRCUMCISED TO BRING HIM TO MANHOOD. THE
CIRCUMCISION WAS DONE WITH AN ASSEGAI (A WOODEN SPEAR)
AND THE FORESKIN WAS THEN PUT IN AN ANTHILL TO BE
DEVOURED BY THE ANTS, SYMBOLIZING HIS DIMINISHING BOYHOOD.
HE THEN SPENT SEVEN DAYS IN A SMALL LODGE BY THE ANTHILL
WITH THE OTHERS PARTICIPATING IN THE RITE. AFTER THE SEVEN
DAYS, THE MEN EMERGED FROM THE LODGE, BURNED IT DOWN, AND
DID SEVERAL RITUALISTIC DANCES TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE NOW
MEN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Maturity BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 11-13-1987
IN THE IBO TRIBE OF NIGERIA, WHENEVER A MAN COMMITS
AN ABOMINATION UNINTENTIONALLY, SUCH AS AN ACCIDENTAL
KILLING, HE AND HIS FAMILY MUST FLEE INTO EXILE TO
HIS MOTHER'S TRIBAL LAND BEFORE SUNRISE THE NEXT DAY.
AT THAT TIME, HIS FELLOW TRIBESMEN WILL DESTROY HIS
DWELLINGS AND REMAINING POSSESSIONS. NO HATRED IS INVOLVED
IN THIS; IT IS SIMPLY A WAY OF CLEANSING THE DESECRATED LAND.
THE FAMILY MUST REMAIN IN EXILE FOR SEVEN YEARS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Common law |
Date learned: 11-13-1987
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
Balinese custom
In Bali, persons who are to marry must remain in the house
for seven days to prevent bad luck.
Where learned: Bali ; Indonesia
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Before wedding BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1955