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IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, BAD LUCK WILL
FOLLOW WITHIN TWO WEEKS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-21-1968
DON'T LET A BLACK CAT CROSS YOUR PATH.
Where learned: CAR
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-15-1968
IT IS BAD LUCK IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 04-02-1968
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, YOU'LL HAVE
BAD LUCK FOR THE REST OF THE DAY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT DOESN'T REMEMBER (SOURCE).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 00001967 AUTUMN
IT'S BAD LUCK TO LET A BLACK CAT CROSS YOUR PATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-25-1969
IT IS CONSIDERED BAD LUCK IF A BLACK CAT WALKS
ACROSS YOUR PATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
BLACK CAT WALKS IN FRONT OF YOU, BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: FROM MOTHER.
Where learned: NEIGHBOR
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-01-1967
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, YOU WILL HAVE
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; EAST DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-28-1967
BAD LUCK WILL COME TO ONE WHO HAS A BLACK CAT
CROSS HIS PATH.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS WHEN I WAS A CHILD.
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-27-1967
A BLACK CAT CROSSING YOUR PATH IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 12-00-1967
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, YOU'LL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT'S BAD LUCK TO LET A BLACK CAT WALK IN FRONT OF YOU.
Where learned: INDIANA ; Jeffersonville
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 04-18-1971
WHEN YOU SEE A BLACK CAT IN THE MORNING, AND HE
PASSES IN FRONT OF YOU, IT IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-03-1971
IF SOMEBODY GOES IN ONE DOOR AND OUT THE OTHER, (THEY)
HE WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT WAS NOT SURE WHERE HE HEARD THIS, BUT HE
ADDED IT HAPPENED TO HIM ONCE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 04-18-1965
SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT WHEN VISITING, IF THEY DON'T
GO OUT THE SAME DOOR THEY CAME IN, THEY WILL HAVE
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 03-00-1968
IT IS BAD LUCK NOT TO GO OUT THE SAME DOOR YOU CAME IN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 10-01-1968
THE DOOR THAT YOU ENTER A PERSON'S HOME IS THE DOOR
YOU MUST LEAVE BY OR ELSE BAD LUCK WILL BEFALL YOU
THE REST OF THE DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 10-25-1968
ALWAYS GO OUT THE SAME DOOR YOU CAME IN. IF YOU FAIL
TO DO SO, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT FIRMLY BELIEVES THIS AND WILL NOT ALLOW
ANYONE TO EXIT A DOOR THEY DID NOT ENTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 11-07-1971
IT IS BAD LUCK TO LEAVE FROM A HOUSE IN A DIFFERENT
DOOR THAN YOU CAME IN.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S BROTHER NEVER BROKE THIS BELIEF, ALWAYS
ENTERING AND EXITING FROM THE SAME DOOR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OAK PARK
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 01-24-1972
TO LEAD WITH THE LEFT FOOT OUT OF A DOOR IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 11-00-1971