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Custom; Agriculture
Plant cucumbers by the dark of the moon. If you plant them by the light of the moon, they will just make vines.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; Crop ; Cucumber ; Dark ; FARMING ; LIGHT ; Lore ; MOON ; PLANT ; VEGETABLE ; Vine
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Working |
Custom; Agriculture
Plant potatoes in February in the dark of the moon.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; CUSTOM ; Dark ; FARMING ; HARVEST ; MOON ; PLANT ; Potatoes
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time F574.82.640 |
Custom; Agriculture
Plant beans when the sign is in the arms and the moon is dark.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ;
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; Arms ; Astrological ; ASTRONOMY ; Beans ; Dark ; FARMING ; MOON ; PLANT ; PLANTING ; SIGN ; Sky
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Working |
Custom; Agriculture
Plant beans on Good Friday
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Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; Beans ; FARMING ; Good Friday ; holiday ; PLANT ; Religious Holiday
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Week Day Hour |
Language
In the summer of 1816 there were frosts during each of the summer months in Hyde Park Vt. and much of the surrounding area. These frosts during the summer months discouraged many of the local farmers who abandoned their farms and moved westward. During the summer of 1816 a poem was written which is often recalled by Vermonters and printed in Vermont newspapers when the summers are unusually cool. The poem discourages people from leaving the area. the poem says:
"Moses saud we are to inhabit all the world, warmer climates lead to more vices, one doesn't change wives because of a wrinkle or farms because of a cold summer.
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Where learned: New York Folklore Quarterly ; Fitch Against Immigration
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; Chill ; FARMING ; Frost ; HARVEST ; Hyde Park ; Language ; Moses ; poem ; Region ; SEASON ; Summer ; Summer ; Vermont ; WINTER ; Wives ; Wrinkle
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time |
Environmental Factor
Product of Environmental Factor:
Making a scarecrow for vegetable garden.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; ENVIRONMENT ; Farm ; Scarecrow ; VEGETABLE
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Weaving material For costuming in dance or drama, see C484. Flax Hemp Jute |
Custom
Grammaw's Average Day:
"...go milk the cow and put the milk in the springhouse...churn sum buttermilk 'n make the butter...'n make a batch of hominy...rest a little whilst shelling peas...hoe and weed the garden 'n carry sum vegetables back to the cabin...take sic Mandy Lou sum soup on the next farm 'n gather sum herbs to doctor wid later on...shell sum butterbeans...gather sum pears 'n make sum preserves...git the aigs outta the nests 'n get the goat outta the garden...cook three meals a day."
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Boiling and Baking ; Booger Hollow
Keyword(s): ; Average ; Beans ; Chores ; CUSTOM ; Day ; Domestic ; Excerpt ; FARMING ; GARDEN ; Goat ; Grandma ; Narrative ; Peas ; Prose ; Shell ; Story ; VEGETABLE ; WORK
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Routine activity |
RED CLOUDS AT NIGHT,
SHEPARD'S DELIGHT.
RED CLOUDS IN THE MORNING,
SHEPARD'S WARNING.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; Clouds ; Clouds ; COLOR ; Delight ; FARMING ; METEOROLOGY ; MORNING ; Night ; OMEN ; Portent ; Red ; Shepard ; SIGN ; WARNING ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
Super
Plant beans when the moon sign is in the arm. If you do, beans will hang out heavy with many pods like fingers. Otherwise the beans will be shaded inside under the leaves and there will not be as many pods.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SPRINGFIELD ; L.G. Corbin
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; Arm ; ASTROLOGY ; Beans ; FARMING ; GARDEN ; PLANT ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Working |
Prediction
It will be a cold winter if the shucks on the corn get tight and thick all over the ear.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SPRINGFIELD
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; CORN ; FARMING ; PREDICTION ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Working |
Superstition
Potatoes should be planted by the dark of the moon. Otherwise there will be mostly vines and no potatoes.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SPRINGFIELD ; L.G. Corbin
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; FARMING ; GARDENING ; MOON ; Potatoes ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Working |
Prose-Weather
When you hear the first whipoorwhill call, its the right time to plant the corn.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Ashland City
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; BIRDS ; CORN ; FARMING ; GARDENING ; PLANT ; Prose
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Air Weather Fire |
FARMER BILL'S WILL
THE C.Y.O. BOY'S CAMP IS LOCATED AT PT. SANILAC, MICHIGAN.
MURPHY'S CREEK RUNS THROUGH THE CAMP AND AT ONE POINT, THERE IS A
LARGE SARCOPHAGUS SHAPED STONE IN THE MIDDLE. ON IT ARE A NUMBER OF
SCRAMBLED LETTERS AND NUMBERS. IT IS SAID THAT THIS IS BILL MURPHY'S
GRAVE. HE HAD OWNED AND FARMED THE LAND AT ONE TIME, IF ANY OF THE
CAMPERS STAYED OUT AT NIGHT ON A MOONLESS EVENING, THEY COULD SEE THE
COFFIN LID OPENED. IN THE DISTANCE
A SINGLE FIGURE COULD BE OUTLINED.
IT WAS OLD BILL PLOWING HIS FIELDS. I LEARNED THIS WHEN AT CAMP,
BUT NEVER SAW BILL.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Port Sanilac
Keyword(s): Bill ; FARMER ; GHOST ; Haunt ; Legend ; Tale ; Will
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
HARVEST
SIVIETA ZOFIJA, COKTOSY ROZEFIJA.
Translated: Saint Sophia helps to ripen the grain.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; FARMING ; Grain ; Grain ; HARVEST ; Patron ; Saint ; Saint Sophia
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Autumn Fall Harvest Thanksgiving BELIEF -- Religious hero |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
MAGIC BELIEF
IF A COW DOESN'T PRODUCE MILK, IT'S BECAUSE THE WITCH
HAD CAST A SPELL, THEREFORE, BEFORE ALL HOLY DAYS, POLISH
VILLAGERS WOULD BURN BLESSED HERBS IN AN INCENSE BURNER IN THE
BARN, BELIEVING THAT THE SMOKE WOULD CHASE AWAY THE WITCH.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Cow ; CURSE ; FARMING ; MAGIC ; Milk ; POLAND
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Typical Elements of a Festive Pattern BELIEF -- Witch Shaman |
Date learned: 02-07-1971
POLISH BELIEF
MANY POLISH PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT WHEN THE MOON IS FULL, IT IS
A GOOD TIME TO PICK MUSHROOMS.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): FARMING ; Full ; HARVEST ; MOON ; Mushrooms ; POLISH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 00001930S
FLOWERDAYS AND BEANS
YOU ARE NOT TO PLANT BEANS DURING THE FLOWERDAYS. ( AGAIN
MY FATHER COULD NOT REMEMBER THE SPECIFIC TIME). MY GRANDFATHER
PLANTED A ROW OF BEANS DURING THE FLOWERDAYS AND ANOTHER AFTER THE
DAYS WERE PAST. THE ROW PLANTED DURING THE DAYS GREW WITH AN
ABUNDANCE OF BLOSSOMS BUT VERY FEW BEANS. THE ROW PLANTED AFTER
THE FLOWERDAYS GREW WITH FEW BLOSSOMS BUT WITH AN ABUNDANCE
OF BEANS.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Mount Clemens
Keyword(s): Beans ; BELIEF ; FARMING ; Flowerdays ; GARDENING ; HARVEST ; Horticulture
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 10-30-1968
WHEN TO PLANT YOUR CROPS
THE GENERAL CONSENSUS ACCORDING TO MY FATHER, IS THAT THERE
IS A CERTAIN TIME OF THE MOON WHEN IT IS FAVORABLE TO PLANT
YOUR CROPS SO THAT THEY WILL BE PRODUCTIVE. IF YOU DO NOT PLANT
AT THIS TIME THE CROPS WILL NOT BE PRODUCTIVE. MY FATHER WAS
UNABLE TO RECALL THE EXACT TIME OF THE MOON.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Mount Clemens
Keyword(s): Botany ; CROPS ; FARMING ; HARVEST ; Horticulture ; MOON ; PLANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 10-30-1968
TALLER CORN
IF YOU PLANT CORN DURING A CERTAIN TIME OF THE MOON, IT
WILL GROW MUCH TALLER THAN CORN PLANTED AT ANOTHER TIME.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Mount Clemens
Keyword(s): CORN ; FARMING ; HARVEST ; Horticulture ; MOON ; PLANTING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 11-08-1968
BELIEF
THERE ARE CUFFS ON PANTS BECAUSE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN FARMERS USED
TO ROLL UP THEIR TROUSERS WHEN THEY WENT TO WORK IN THE FIELDS.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Cuffed ; English ; Farmers ; Fashion ; Functions ; Menswear ; Origin ; Pants
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 11-05-1968