Dr. James T. Callow publications
Browse by
Questions or comments on this site? Please email davidsor@udmercy.edu.
The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
Your search for P882.135 returned 63 results.
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
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
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, IT IS POSSIBLE TO WARD OFF THE BAD
LUCK THAT IT WILL BRING BY THROWING IT IMMEDIATELY INTO
RUNNING WATER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MARTIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Running water BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror BELIEF -- Conversions Mirror |
Date learned: 00001947CA
Superstition
Break a mirror and you'll have seven years of bad luck. Open an
umbrella indoors and something bad will happen to you. Walk
underneath a ladder and you'll have an accident.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ECORSE
Date learned: 00-00-1968
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, IT IS SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
THIS STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT MIRRORS WERE EX-
PENSIVE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Where learned: SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several Favorites BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 03-05-1968
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR IT'S BAD LUCK IN CHINA AND
ESPECIALLY WHEN A COUPLE WHO ARE IN LOVE BREAK
A MIRROR, THEY WILL SEPARATE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS SUPERSTITION IN TAIWAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; TAIWAN
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Dating Courtship BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 02-12-1971
IT IS BAD LUCK TO HOLD A BABY UP TO THE MIRROR
TO SEE HIMSELF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 02-28-1970
NEVER LOOK INTO A MIRROR OVER THE SHOULDER OF ANOTHER
PERSON; IT BRINGS BAD LUCK TO BOTH.
Submitter comment:
SHE TOLD ME THIS WHEN WE FIRST WERE ROOMMATES IN
COLLEGE, BUT DIDN'T SEEM TO BELIEVE IT SINCE THERE
WAS ONLY ONE MIRROR FOR BOTH OF US, AND INEVITABLY
SHARING WAS NECESSARY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MARYGROVE COLLEGE ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, YOU WILL HAVE SEVEN YEARS
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 10-30-1968
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, YOU WILL HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; EAST DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 03-28-1967
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DROP A MIRROR?
SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: FROM HIS BROTHER, JOE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 04-15-1967
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK WILL
COME YOUR WAY.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS LONG AGO.
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 12-04-1967
SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK WHEN YOU BREAK A MIRROR.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: LIVING ROOM
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 10-25-1967
BREAKING A MIRROR IS SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR YOU WILL HAVE SEVEN YEARS
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
IN MEXICO, IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR YOU WILL HAVE SEVEN
YEARS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ANN ARBOR
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 02-04-1968
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, YOU'LL HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BREAKING A MIRROR MEANS SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
TO BREAK A MIRROR CAUSES SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN