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ACCORDING TO GREEK ORTHODOX LEGEND, THE WEATHER ON GOOD FRIDAY
IS ALWAYS BAD, PARTICULARLY AROUND SIX IN THE EVENING. THIS APPLIES
TO THE GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER, NOT THE TRADITIONAL EASTER WHICH
FALLS ON DIFFERENT DATES.
Where learned: MISSOURI ; KANSAS CITY
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 00-00-1975
GOOD FRIDAY
ACCORDING TO MRS. KEHOE, IT ALWAYS RAINS ON GOOD FRIDAY BETWEEN
12:00 AND 3:00.
Submitter comment: THIS INFORMANT REALLY BELIEVES IT RAINS ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BLOOMFIELD HILLS
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 12-03-1982
HAIR CUTTING BELIEF
HAVING YOUR HAIR CUT ON GOOD FRIDAY WILL BRING GOOD LUCK
FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR. MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD THIS TO MY
MOTHER IN DUQUESNE, PENNSYLVANIA AROUND 1945. MY MOTHER
THINKS THAT MY GRANDMOTHER BELIEVED IT TO BE TRUE BUT
DOESN'T RECALL ANYONE ACTUALLY HAVING THEIR HAIR CUT ON
GOOD FRIDAY IN ORDER TO BRING GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
THE GRANDMOTHER, ELIZABETH DORULLA MARTIN IS OF SLOVAKIAN
DESCENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
Date learned: 09-00-1982
AS CHILDREN WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK, WATCH TELEVISION
OR ENGAGE IN ANY FRIVOLOUS ACTIVITY BETWEEN TWELVE O'CLOCK
AND THREE O'CLOCK ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 00-00-1953
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
ON GOOD FRIDAY, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 12:00-3:00,
YOU SHOULD SIT DOWN AND PRAY BECAUSE THESE ARE THE HOURS
THAT JESUS WAS HANGING ON THE CROSS.
CO[ EVERY GOOD FRIDAY UNTIL I REACHED THE AGE OF 10, MY
Submitter comment: EVERY GOOD FRIDAY UNTIL I REACHED THE AGE OF 10, MY
Where learned: OHIO ; CLEVELAND
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 00-00-1920
MY INFORMANT TOLD ME OF A SUPERSTITION IN HIS FAMILY
IN REGARD TO EASTER. THIS CATHOLIC FAMILY BELIEVES
THAT ALL CONFESSIONS GIVEN ON GOOD FRIDAY ARE WORTHLESS.
CONSEQUENTLY, HIS FAMILY WOULD RECEIVE THE SACRAMENT OF
RECONCILIATION ON HOLY THURSDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Holy Thursday 663 Good Friday Favorites BELIEF -- Church |
ALWAYS PLANT PEAS, POTATOES, AND ONIONS ON GOOD FRIDAY AND YOU WILL
HAVE A GOOD CROP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Ortonville
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- Animal Husbandry Farming Ranching |
Date learned: 00001930S CA. ; 11001987 CA.
Plant potatoes on Good Friday.
Submitter comment: My father's parents did this every year.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Oakley
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F535 |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
Wearing a vibrant color such as red, yellow or pink on Good
Friday is setting yourself up for bad encounters all
throughout the day.
Submitter comment:
Bright colors represent happy times and these colors would
hardly be appropriate to be worn on Good Friday.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Clothes, Jacket.
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1989
On Good Friday if you crack a fresh egg into a glass of water
you will see a religious symbol of life.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: O3001991
On Good Friday, my mom and I make up Easter baskets with eggs
in them. Then we take the baskets to church, put them on the
altar, and the priest will bless the baskets.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00001970S
PLANT SWEET PEA AND PEA SEEDS ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TROY
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F476 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting F663.33 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
INFORMANT'S MOTHER WAS BROUGHT UP ON A FARM. SHE
ALWAYS PLANTED SWEET PEAS ON GOOD FRIDAY MORNING
BECAUSE IT WAS THE PROPER TIME OF YEAR FOR
PLANTING IN ORDER FOR HER CROP TO COME UP THE BEST.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 02-10-1970
WHEN PLANTING A FIELD OF CROPS, DO NOT PLANT ON ANY
DAY OTHER THAN GOOD FRIDAY. THIS WILL GUARANTEE A
GOOD CROP.
Where learned: SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 09-18-1969
IF YOU PLANT SOMETHING ON GOOD FRIDAY YOU'LL HAVE A
PLENTIFUL CROP AT HARVEST TIME.
Submitter comment:
SYLVIA COLLECTED THIS FROM HER SISTER WHO IN TURN
LEARNED IT AT THE NURSES' LOUNGE AT BEAUMONT
HOSPITAL, ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 09-23-1967
IT ALWAYS RAINS ON GOOD FRIDAY BETWEEN 12-3 P.M.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
ON GOOD FRIDAY IT IS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO RAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 02-28-1970
POLISH CUSTOM FOR GOOD FRIDAY: NO ONE SAYS A WORD
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 12 NOON AND 3 O'CLOCK IN THE
AFTERNOON.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 09-00-1969
GOOD FRIDAY
INFORMANT RECALLED THAT AS A CHILD, HER PARENTS REQUIRED
HER TO KEEP SILENCE BETWEEN 12:00 P.M. AND 3:00 P.M.
ON GOOD FRIDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; SAINT RITAS CONVENT
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 03-01-1970