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IF WISHES WERE HORSES, BEGGARS WOULD RIDE
Submitter comment: I PICKED THIS SAYING UP IN ST. LOUIS WHEN I WAS ABOUT 11 OR 12.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): METAPHOR
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
IF WOOLEN FLEECES SPREAD THE HEAVENLY WAY, BE SURE NO RAIN
DISTURBS THE SUMMER DAY.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): RIME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 09-07-1969
RETORT
UPON PASSING WIND (FARTING) ONE WOULD SAY "LET THEM FLY, THEY ARE NO
WORTH FEATHERING ANYWAY."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD METAPHOR
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 02-16-1980
BELIEF
IF SOMEONE STEPS OVER YOU AS AN INFANT, YOU WILL BE SHORT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC MAGIC.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00001920S ; 02-16-1980
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WEATHER VERSE
RED SKY AT NIGHT
SAILOR'S DELIGHT.
RED SKY IN THE MORNING
SAILORS TAKE WARNING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; FEMININE RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 00001950S
WEATHER BELIEF
RAIN BEFORE SEVEN.
SHINE BEFIRE ELEVEN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; FEMININE RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001950S
COLD HANDS, WARM HEART
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): AFFECTION ; ALLITERATION FOR CONTRAST ; CONTRAST ; ELLIPSIS ; LOVE ; METONYMY ; TENDERNESS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 00001950S
A CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
IN VERACRUZ IT IS BELIEVED THAT TUBERCULOSIS CAN BE CURED BY DRINKIN
THE WARM BLOOD OF A FRESHLY SLAUGHTERED COW..
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): MEXICO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-00-1980
BELIEF IN A MEANS OF CAUSING A CHILD TO BE SMALL
NEVER STEP OVER A CRAWLING BABY BECAUSE YOU WILL STUNT ITS GROWTH.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HER MOTHER IN-LAW WHO FIRMLY BELIEVES IT
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): HEIGHT ; HOMEOPATHIC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 01-31-1980
BELIEF IN A METHOD OF CURING ASTHMA
STAND AN ASTHMATIC CHILD STRAIGHT AGAINST A TREE AND MARK THE SPOT
AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD WITH A NAIL. AFTER THE CHILD MOVES TO THE
SIDE, DRIVE THE NAIL ALL THE WAY INTO THE TREE. AS SOON AS THE
CHILD'S HEIGHT PASSES THE NAIL, HE WILL BE RID OF HIS ASTHMA.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS IN MONTERREY, MEXICO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-05-1980 ; 12-00-1979
BELIEF CONCERNING HAIR
IF A GIRL GETS HER HAIR BLUNTLY CUT WITH A MACHETE WHEN THE MOON IS
FULL, HER HAIR WILL GROW BACK VERY, VERY LONG.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM HER MEXICAN MOTHER WHO IS IN HER MID 40'S
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 02-05-1980
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, WE THROW WATER OUT THE
WINDOWS BY THE BUCKETS TO SEND AWAY ALL BAD THINGS THAT CAME DURING
THE YEAR
Submitter comment: THEY DO THIS IN SAN JUAN.
Where learned: PUERTO RICO ; SAN JUAN
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC MAGIC ; PURIFICATION OF THE YEAR.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F123 BELIEF -- Measure of time Year |
Date learned: CA00001950
IT IS BAD LUCK FOR A WOMAN TO CAN FOOD DURING HER MONTHLY PERIOD.
IF SHE DOES, THE FOOD WILL SPOIL.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT'S MOTHERIN-LAW REALLY BELIEVED AND ABIDED BY THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): MENSTRUATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 02-17-1980
BIRD PROVERB (SPANISH)
IN LAST YEAR'S NESTS THERE ARE NO BIRDS TODAY.
TRANSLATION OF
SPANISH TEXT NOT KEYPUNCHED. SEE ORIGINAL 5 X 8 INCH CARD.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): METAPHOR ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 03-00-1968
IN LOVE, THERE IS ALWAYS ONE WHO KISSES AND ONE WHO OFFERS THE CHEEK
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM ; COLLECTORS HOME
Keyword(s): METAPHOR ; OBSERVATION ; REPETITION
James Callow Keyword(s): LEADING AND FOLLOWING AMONG LOVERS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 04-05-1971
IN ORDER TO GET THE FRUIT, YOU HAVE TO CLIMB THE TREE.
Submitter comment:
(YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD FOR WHAT YOU GET.) MARILOU'S INFORMANT WAS HE
GRANDMOTHER BRIDGET O'CONNOR, 81, WIDOWED, IRISH FROM LONDON,
ONTARIO.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): METAPHOR ; OBSERVATION ; PARALLELISM
James Callow Keyword(s): CANADA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-08-1972
WEATHER RHYME
IN THE MORNING MOUNTAINS,
IN THE EVENING FOUNTAINS.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; CONTRAST ; ELLIPSIS ; FEMININE RHYME ; OBSERVATION PREDICTION ; PARALLELISM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 09-07-1969
COUNTING-OUT RHYME
ACKA BACKA,
SOWED THE CROCKA,
ACKA BACKA BOO.
IN COMES UNCLE SAM,
AND OUT GOES Y*O*U}}
Submitter comment: INFORMANT IS FROM PENNSYLVANIA
Data entry tech comment:
IN THE LATE 1960'S
I LEARNED A VARIANT OF THIS COUNTING-OUT RHYME AS A CHILD IN DETROIT
ACKA BACKA SODA CRACKA
ACKA BACKA BOO
IF YOUR FATHER CHEWS TOBACKA
OUT GOES YOU.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): NONSENSE WORDS ; REPETITION ; RHYME: ABCB
James Callow Keyword(s): SODA CRACKER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
ANIMAL RHYME
THE ELEPHANT IS A PRETTY BIRD,
IT FLITS FROM BOUGH TO BOUGH.
IT BUILDS ITS NEST IN A RHUBARB TREE
AND WHISTLES LIKE A COW.
Where learned: ONTARIO ; OAKVILLE
Keyword(s): HUMOR ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Prose Narrative C820.442 |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR