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TO CAUSE RAIN
WHEN YOU KILL A SNAKE, HANG IT UP WITH BELLY UP AND IT WILL RAIN IN THREE DAYS.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 07-20-1968
WAKING UP SNAKES
THEY SAY THAT THE FIRST THUNDERRSTORM IN MARCH WAKES UP THE SNAKES.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 07-20-1968
CONQUERING ENEMIES
IF YOU KILL THE FIRST SNAKE YOU SEE IN THE SPRING, YOU CONQUER ALL YOUR ENEMIES.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HERNDON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 07-20-1968
A SUPERSTITION
IF A CAT GETS IN A BABY'S CRADLE, IT WILL STEAL THE BABY'S
BREATH AND KILL IT.
Submitter comment: I HEARD THIS SUPERSTITION FROM MY MOTHER WHEN I WAS A LITTLE
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 08-08-1968
"A RATTLESNAKE WON'T CROSS A HORSEHAIR ROPE"
IF SLEEPING IN THE WOODS, A HORSEHAIR ROPE PLACED ON THE
GROUND AROUND YOU WILL KEEP RATTLESNAKES AWAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-15-1972
MUD SNAKES HAVE STINGERS IN THEIR TAILS AND STING TREES TO KILL
THEM. MUDE SNAKES LIVE IN SWAMPY AREAS AND HAVE PAINTED TAILS
WHICH ARE BURROWED FOR TRACTION.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-15-1972
BELIEF
GROW MINT OR TOMATOES BY CABBAGE TO KEEP WORMS AWAY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Animal Husbandry Farming Ranching BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
SET GARLIC AROUND PEACH TREES TO STOP BUGS AND WORMS.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Animal Husbandry Farming Ranching BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 03-29-1969
BELIEF
TO FRIGHTEN OFF BIRDS FROM YOUR GARDEN, PLACE A
LENGTH OF GARDEN HOSE IN IT AND THEY WILL THINK
IT'S A SNAKE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CLASS ASSIGNMENT ; NASHVILLE ; PEABODY COLLEGE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 03-07-1969
IF I PULLED A HAIR FROM A HORSE'S TAIL AND SEALED IT
IN A JAR OF MY OWN URINE, THE HAIR WOULD TURN
OVERNIGHT INTO A SNAKE.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; BLACK BOY: A RECORD OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH ; SIGNET BOOK ; NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ; PAGE 81
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFORMATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mammal |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
A RATTLESNAKE WON'T CROSS A HORSEHAIR ROPE.
IF SLEEPING IN THE WOODS, A HORSEHAIR ROPE PLACED
ON THE GROUND AROUND YOU WILL KEEP RATTLESNAKES AWAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-15-1972
MUD SNAKES HAVE STINGERS IN THEIR TAILS AND STING
TREES TO KILL THEM.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-15-1972
THERE ARE BATS UP IN KIRKLAND TOWER. WHEN THE REPAIRMEN WERE
DOING WORK ON THE TOWER LAST YEAR, THEY DISTURBED THEM. ONE
OF THE BATS HUNG FOR A DAY TO THE OUTSIDE OF A WINDOW UPSIDE
DOWN AND SCARED THE SECRETARY.
Where learned: VANDERBILT ARCHITECTURE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
WHEN A WOOLY WORM CRAWLS PAST ONE, HE IS SUPPOSED TO SPIT
IMMEDIATELY TO BREAK THE BAD LUCK THAT IT IS CAUSING.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; LAFAYETTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Bad luck BELIEF -- Conversions SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 04-29-1969
GLASS SNAKE
I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE TELL AND PROFESS BELIEF IN THE "GLASS SNAKE"
IN BOTH KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. I THINK A CHARACTERISTIC OF
PEOPLE OF BOTH STATES, ESPECIALLY IN THE RURAL AND MOUNTAINOUS
AREAS, IS THAT THEY TAKE DELIGHT IN "PULLING EACH OTHER'S LEGS."
I HAVE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS TELL ME THINGS IN ALL SERIOUSNESS
AS HAPPENING TO THEM OR SOMEONE THAT THEY WILL NAME THAT NEVER
HAPPENED AT ALL. I DOUBT IF ANYONE REALLY BELIEVES THE "GLASS
SNAKE" TALE, YET MANY WILL PROFESS A BELIEF IN IT.
THERE IS A SNAKE THAT WHEN APPROACHED BY AN ENEMY WILL BREAK
ITSELF APART INTO TWO OR THREE PIECES AND SCATTER IN ALL
DIRECTIONS. WHEN THE DANGER IS PASSED, THE SNAKE WILL RE-JOIN
ITSELF AND GO ON ITS WAY.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THIS WAS TOLD TO SISTER MARY ANTHONY BARR BY A YOUNG NEGRO
GIRL IN COLLEGE: TO DREAM OF FISH IS A SIGN OF PREGNANCY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Dreams Dreams about animals |
Date learned: 00001965 SUMMER
CURSE FOR GRINNING AT WORMS
IF YOU GRIN OR SHOW YOUR TEETH AT A 1,000 LEG WORM, YOU DIE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
NEVER KILL A BLACKSNAKE FOUND IN THE BARN; IT WILL EAT RATS
AND MICE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RED BOILING SPRINGS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 03-26-1972
IF A NEW MOON IS ON ITS BACK, THE INDIAN HUNTERS WILL NOT
GO HUNTING; BUT IF IT IS TURNED ON ITS TIPS, WATER HAS
RUN OUT AND THEY CAN GO HUNTING.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RED BOILING SPRINGS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Moon |
Date learned: 04-10-1972