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LIGHT TREE
WHAT TREE CAN YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND?
A PALM TREE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT DOES NOT REMEMBER WHERE HE LEARNED THIS
Where learned: WASHINGTON DC
Keyword(s): BODY PART PLANT STRENGTH ; CONUNDRUM
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-12-1967
RUSSIAN RIDDLE
WHAT TWO BROTHERS LIVE ACROSS A
BRIDGE FROM EACH OTHER BUT NEVER MEET?
TWO EYES.
Where learned: RUSSIA ; MOSCOW
Keyword(s): BODY PARTS ; FAMILY METAPHOR
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- True Riddle |
Date learned: 00-00-1905
WITH WHAT TWO ANIMALS DO YOU ALWAYS GO TO BED?
YOUR TWO CALVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): BODY PARTS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
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RIDDLE
WHAT IS ALWAYS UNDER SHELTER BUT ALWAYS WET?
THE TONGUE
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS IN DORMITORY
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): BODY PART ; OPPOSITIONAL: CAUSAL CONTRADICTIVE
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- True Riddle RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-27-1967
RIDDLE
WHY SHOULDN'T YOU TELL A SECRET IN THE GARDEN?
BECAUSE THE CORN HAS EARS
Where learned: SHOPPING
Keyword(s): PUN ON ONE OF THE PARTS OF THE BODY ; VEGETABLE
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
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IRISH LEGEND
IT SEEMS THAT MY GRANDMOTHER KNEW A WOMAN IN IRELAND WHO TOLD HER
THE STORY OF HER SON. ONE DAY WHEN THE LITTLE BOY WAS BEING CHASTISED
HE RAISED HIS HAND IN ANGER TO HIS MOTHER. SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE
LITTLE BOY DIED. A FEW DAYS AFTER HE WAS BURIED HIS MOTHER WAS CALLED
TO THE GRAVE SITE. THERE WAS THE LITTLE BOY'S HAND STICKING UP OUT
OF THE GROUND. A PRIEST WAS SUMMONED AND AFTER A SERIES OF RITUALS
AND APPLICATIONS OF HOLY WATER THE HAND RECEDED INTO THE GROUND. THIS
INCIDENT OF COURSE WAS AN EXAMPLE FOR THE TOWNSPEOPLE OF WHAT
HAPPENS TO CHILDREN WHO DO NOT RESPECT THEIR PARENTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BODY PART
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1937
If you feel pain in your right leg this means that something
bad is about to happen to you.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Body, Hurt
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1985
Chin Tickler
I remember this little game my grandmother played on my face
and head. She would knock on my head and say, "head knocker", then
touch my eyes and say, "eye peepers," then pinch my nose and say,
"nose blower," then place her finger on my mouth and say, "mouth
chopper" and tickle under my chin and say, "chin tickler."
Submitter comment:
The two of us would continue the little game, laughing until
one of us would finally give in due to stomach pain from laughter.
I did the same with my children.
Where learned: Grandmother
James Callow Keyword(s): Names for body parts
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics SPEECH -- Vocabulary |
Date learned: 00001950S
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Yellow Ribbon
This is a story about John and Jane. They lived next door to each other, went to school together, and loved each other very much. John was a normal happy boy and Jane was a happy girl who always wore a yellow ribbon . Jane kept answering "perhaps some day I'll tell you."
Time went by, and John and Jane were engaged. Jane told John she would tell him about the ribbon on their wedding day. On their wedding day, they forgot about the yellow ribbon. Next day, however, John asked why she wore it again. She replied that they were happily married so what difference does it make?
Time went by and it was their golden anniversary and John asked about the ribbon again. Jane asked him to wait a little longer since he has waited so long already. Finally, Jane became very ill and was dying. John asked again to please tell him why she wore the yellow ribbon.
"All right," said Jane. "You can untie it." So John untied the yellow ribbon and Jane's head fell off.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original Boggs Numbers [B600 B642] are crossed outand B667.1 is substituted.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Myself
Keyword(s): Anniversary ; BEHEADING ; BODY ; CURIOSITY ; Curious ; DEATH ; DECAPITATION ; DYING ; HEAD ; LOVE ; MARRIAGE ; Neighbors ; SECRET ; Yellow Ribbon
| Subject headings: | 6677 Formula Tale |
Superstition: Animals
Turtle:
If a turtle clamp your toe or your finger, it won't let it go until it thunder.
Submitter comment:
Informant learned from childhood
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [P752] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; BELIEF ; Bite ; BODY PART ; Finger ; SUPERSTITION ; Thunder ; TOE ; Turtle ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Proverb
All the water I bathe with doesn't go on my skin alone.
Submitter comment:
Meaning: All my good fortunes are not mine alone, Others benefit from it.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
The A in All and the first letter of each last name on the card are each underlined.
Dup. of WPP
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ;
Keyword(s): Bathe ; BODY ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; SKIN ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
All the water I bathe in doesn't go on my skin.
Submitter comment:
All the benefits I get from being in this world doesn't/don't help me alone. -Interpretation. Told by mother.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
The word Proverb is crossed out as a title.
The letter A in All is underlined twice.
Dup. of WPP
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Bathe ; BODY ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; SKIN ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
Blood is thicker than water.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
The B of the word Blood is underlined.
Dup of WPP
Keyword(s): BLOOD ; BODY ; Clan ; FAMILY ; METAPHOR ; Obligation ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A house without a woman and firelight is like a body without a soul or sprite.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V700] crossed out. Replaced with current classfication.
Located in a pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): BODY ; Domesticity ; Feminine ; FIRE ; Firelight ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Soul ; SPIRIT ; Warmth ; Woman
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Joke
Easter Joke:
"Easter will be a little late this year, they found the body."
Submitter comment:
Sign on the desk of a room in Payne Hall, Peabody College.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): BODY ; Easter ; holiday ; JOKE ; RELIGION ; Resurrection
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Saying
Paddle your own canoe
(Mind your own business)
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: FLORIDA ; Plant City
Keyword(s): Busybody ; CANOE ; Maxim ; Paddle ; PROVERB ; Saying
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary |
Belief
The pishtace are nocturnal murderers of Indians. The pishtaco murder Indians in order to obtain human fat to be sold as lubricants for machinery and to be used in pharmacuticals.
The legend derives from 16th and 17th centurey Spanish practices of using human body fats as treatment for wounds and diseases. the people who tell this tale are poor Indians and the pishtaco are usually wealthy industrial men in the area. The tale helps draw lines of social class.
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Where learned: Journal of American Folklore ; The Pishtaco: Institutionalized Fear in Highland Peru
Keyword(s): BODY ; Cultural ; Culture ; Fat ; FEAR ; HORROR ; INDIAN ; INDUSTRY ; Kill ; Lubrication ; Machinery ; MEDICINE ; MURDER ; Native American ; Peru ; Peruvian ; Pharmaceutical ; Pishtaco ; Poor ; Social Class ; Wealthy
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |