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IRISH HALLOWEEN CUSTOM
THE INFORMANT TELLS OF THE HALLOWEENS WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG AND HER
MOTHER WOULD HIDE THINGS IN THE MASHED POTATOES. AT DINNERTIME,
EVERYONE WOULD FIND THEIR SURPRISE (A THIMBLE, RING, ETC.--SOMETHING
THAT WOULDN'T BE EASY TO SWALLOW) AND THE LUCKY ONE WOULD FIND A
DIME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): GIFTS IN FOOD
Date learned: 11-01-1969
IF YOU WRITE A LIST OF 7 NAMES ON HALLOWEEN AND PUT IT UNDER YOUR
PILLOW, THE ONE YOU DREAM OF WILL BE YOUR HUSBAND.
Submitter comment: SHE AND HER SISTER DID THIS AS YOUNG GIRLS; IT WORKED FOR THE SISTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; RIVER ROUGE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween |
Date learned: 02-10-1968
HALLOWEEN
ANOTHER GAME IS BLIND FOLDING YOUR PARTNER AFTER HE PICKED OUT A
PICTURE OF A PRETTY GIRL THEN ASKING HIM TO KISS THE PICTURE
AFTER THE BLINDFOLD IS ON. IN THE MEANTIME A SAUCER OF FLOUR IS
SLIPPED OVER THE PICTURE AND HE ENDS UP WITH A WHITE FACE.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PEORIA
Keyword(s): PRANKS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
HALLOWEEN
ANOTHER TRICK IS TO TELL SOMEONE THAT YOU CAN PIN A CUP OF WATER INTO
THE TOP OF A DRAPE.
WHILE YOU ARE STANDING ON A CHAIR TRYING TO PIN THE CUP OF WATER YOUR
AUDIENCE ACCIDENTLY GETS A CUP OF WATER ON HIS HEAD.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PEORIA
Keyword(s): PRANKS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
HALLOWEEN CUSTOM
UPON THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF HALLOWEEN CHILDREN USUALLY WOULD GET
IN TROUBLE SIMPLY BY HAVING FUN. IN THE OLD DAYS CHILDREN WOULD
DISASSEMBLE HORSE'S CARRIAGE AND THEN REASSEMBLE THE CARRIAGE ON
THE ROOF OF THE OWNER'S BARN.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT SAID THAT HE AND OTHER CHILDREN OFTEN PERFORMED THIS
ACT TO SOMEONE ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PRANKS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 10-31-1971
HALLOWEEN
IT WAS A CUSTOM IN PLYMOUTH, INDIANA 20 YRS. AGO TO KNOCK DOWN
FARMERS' OUTHOUSES ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT. A GROUP OF FOUR OR MORE
TEENAGERS WOULD DO THIS EVERY YEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PRANKS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 10-10-1971
OMEN
ITALIANS BELIEVE THAT ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, THE EVE OF ALL SAINTS DAY,
ALL THE DEAD PEOPLE MARCH IN A PROCESSION, WITH THEIR THUMBS AS
CANDLES. IF ONE HEARS A KNOCK ON THEIR WINDOW NEAR MIDNIGHT, IT
IS A SIGN THAT DEATH WILL OCCUR WITHIN THAT HOUSEHOLD WITHIN THE
YEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALLEN PARK
| Subject headings: | Observation CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 10-00-1971
HALLOWEEN TRADITION
IT IS TRADITIONAL TO HAVE SCAVENGER HUNTS AROUND HALLOWEEN TIME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- September 23 equinox to December 20 Also used for Advent. |
Date learned: 11-00-1969
WHO WILL BECOME A VAMPIRE
A PERSON WILL BE A VAMPIRE IF HE IS BORN ON HALLOWEEN
OR CONCEIVED ON WOLPURGIS NIGHT--THE NIGHT BEFORE MAY 1.
Where learned: ENGLAND ; WORCESTER
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- April 30 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May 1 May Day CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween BELIEF -- Werewolf Vampire |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
LEGEND
EVERY HALLOWEEN NIGHT THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN GOES OUT LOOKING
FOR HIS HEAD.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST ; Headless ; Horseman ; Legend ; Scary ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F103 BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-15-1968
DEVILS NIGHT PRANK
IN THE LITTLE TOWN OF SMOOTH ROCK FALLS ONTARIO CANADA, ONE PRANK FOR
DEVIL'S NIGHT CONSISTED OF BOYS TAKING A FARMER'S WAGON APART. THEY
WOULD THEN PUT IT TOGETHER ON TOP
OF THE FARMER'S BARN, AND LEAVE
IT THERE FOR THE FARMER TO FIND IT IN THE MORNING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F103 |
Date learned: 10-29-1977
HALLOWEEN
ON ALL SOULS DAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, ABOUT FIVE PEOPLE DRESS UP
AS GHOSTS AND GO THROUGH THE TOWN. THEY RECEIVE FOOD FOR THIS.
Submitter comment: THIS CUSTOM IS OBSERVED IN POLAND.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween |
Date learned: 04-14-1979
WHEN I WAS IN GRADE SCHOOL THE NUNS MADE US DRESS UP AS OUR PATRON
SAINT ON HALLOWEEN.
Submitter comment: GRADE SCHOOL ST. MICHAEL'S OF LIVONIA
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIVONIA
| Subject headings: | DRAMA -- Religious CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween BELIEF -- Religious hero |
Date learned: GRADE SCHOOL
HALLOWEEN CUSTOMS
INSTEAD OF GOING OUT ON DEVIL'S NIGHT, THE CHILDREN WOULD USUALLY
GO OUT ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT AND UPSET TOILETS THAT WERE OUTSIDE IF
THE PEOPLE WOULD NOT GIVE THEM A TREAT.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; MINDEN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween |
Date learned: 00-00-1925
AX MURDER HOLLOW, PENNSYLVANIA
THERE IS AN AREA IN PENNSYLVANIA KNOWN AS AX MURDER HOLLOW. THERE
WAS A MASS MURDER WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE AREA AND ALL THE DEATHS
WERE THE RESULT OF AN AX. PEOPLE GO THERE NOW ON HALLOWEEN EXPECTIN
TO SEE THE MURDERER REAPPEAR.
James Callow comment: MURDERER NOT CALLED A GHOST, ONLY IMPLIED.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): VIOLENT DEATHS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-15-1968
HALLOWEEN RHYME
TRICK OR TREAT SMELL MY FEET IF YOU DIE YOU KNOW WHY.
Where learned: UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Custom Festival C840.1031 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween |
Date learned: CA00001973
DEVIL'S NIGHT PRANK
MAKING A DUMMY OF A PERSON AND THROWING IT IN FRONT OF
AN ONCOMING CAR.
Submitter comment:
THIS PRANK IS PERFORMED ON OCTOBER 30, THE DAY BEFORE HALLOWEEN
IT'S PURPOSE IS TO SCARE THE DRIVER AND POSSIBLY MAKE HIM
SWERVE HIS CAR ONTO A LAWN OR INTO GARBAGE CANS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
DEVIL'S NIGHT
ON DEVIL'S NIGHT CHILDREN WOULD "INVADE" THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ON
THIS HALLOWEEN EVE, THE KID WOULD DO SUCH THINGS AS:
SOAP WINDOWS, RING DOOR BELLS, AND TOILET-PAPER TREES. SOME
PRANKSTERS WILL INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN MORE HARSH PRANKS AS:
LETTING AIR OUT OF TIRES, BREAKING EGGS ON CARS, OR EVEN DAMAGE
PROPERTY
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Sterling Heights
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F103 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
HALLOWEEN PRANK
A GOOD PRANK MY FRIEND WOULD DO NEAR HALLOWEEN WAS BORROW SOME OLD
CLOTHES AND STUFF THEM WITH HAY. HE WOULD THEN GET SOME DUCK'S
BLOOD FROM THE GROCER AND SPLASH IT OVER THE BODY, AND THEN LEAVE IT
ON SOMEONE'S PORCH.
Submitter comment:
THIS HALLOWEEN GAG STOPPED WHEN THE DEPRESSION CAME AND CLOTHES
WERE NOT MISUSED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 00-00-1920
GEORGIA HALLOWEEN CUSTOM
"DADDY TOLD US THAT EVERY HALLOWEEN NIGHT,
YOU SHOULD FACE SOUTH-EAST AND SAY A LITTLE RHYME I CAN'T REMEMBER,
AND IT WOULD PREVENT BLACKBEARD'S GHOST FROM GETTING YOU."
Submitter comment:
THE COLLECTOR RESEARCHED THIS GEORGIA SUPERSTITION, AND FOUND
THAT BLACKBEARD'S ISLAND, THE SITE WHERE THE ENGLISH PIRATE
SUPPOSEDLY ESTABLISHED HIS HEADQUARTERS, LIES JUST OFF OF
GEORGIA'S SOUTH-EAST COAST.
Where learned: OHIO ; FLORIDA ; ALLIANCE ; EUSTIS
Date learned: 11-13-1980 ; 00001920S