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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Language
To spell separate, remember "caught in a trap by a rat" that way, you'll not replace "a" with "e".
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Keyword(s): Language ; Mnemonics ; rat ; Separate ; SPELLING ; Trap ; Vocabulary
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Jump Rope Jingle
Running Through School:
I want to register
For First Grade
This is how you
Spell my name
N-A-M-E (Spell name of jumper)
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Language ; NAME ; Register ; RHYME ; SCHOOL ; Spell ; SPELLING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Food: Recipe
Beef Tea:
1 lb lean beef, cut into small pieces. Put into a glass canning jar, without a drop of water, cover tightly and set in a pot of cold water. Heat gradually to a boil and continue this streadily for three hours, until the meat is like white rags and the juice drawn out. Season with salt to tast and, when cold, skim.
Submitter comment:
My mother used to fix this for me as a child when I was sick and couldn't keep anything in my stomach.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Beef ; Beverage ; Boil ; Boil ; Broth ; Canning ; DRINK ; FOOD ; Liquid ; Simmer ; Skim ; TEA
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Mixed preparation in liquid |
Society
The author, Lee Hardin, argues the case that Greenwich Village in New York was the first of America's Bohemian communities, that the west coast bohemian villages were offspring of Greenwich Village.
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Where learned: Journal of American Folklore ; Folk Music Revival
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Bohemian ; Greenwich Village ; NEW YORK ; Social Class ; Social Group ; West Coast
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
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 |
Poem
Feeling that the Indians had been seriously mistreated Longfellow wrote in 1854, that he had found a plan for a poem on the American Indians that was fitting to their beautiful traditions. The poem did not totally portray the indians totally accurately.
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Where learned: New York Folklore Quarterly ; The Making of Hiawatha
Keyword(s): AMERICAN INDIAN ; INDIAN ; Language ; LONGFELLOW ; poem ; Traditions
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Legend |
Religion
An extremely grim account of religious confraternities in New Mexico and Colorado which practice self-flagellation and other penitent practices, especially on Good Friday.
The article explores the history behind and classifies different types of Muerte (death images) which are pulled on carts by penitents.
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Where learned: Journal of American Folklore ; The Origin of the Penitence Death Cart
Keyword(s): Colorado ; CUSTOM ; DEATH ; Flagellation ; Images ; Inflicted ; Muerte ; New Mexico ; REGIONAL ; RELIGION ; Self
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
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 |
Language
Nickname for Grandfather:
"grandpa"
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Grandfather ; Grandpa ; Language ; Nickname
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Language
Tongue-Twister:
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Submitter comment:
She learned it when she was growing up.
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James Callow comment:
Why Verse?
Original BN [C870.570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; BABY ; Buggy ; Bumper ; Language ; Rubber ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Saying
Out of Cite [sic]
This saying, used by young people, means that something is enjoyable, pleasing, or otherwise good. It can be paralleled with such jargon as "cool," "bad," or "mellow."
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WESTLAND
Keyword(s): Bad ; Cite ; Cool ; Era ; Jargon ; Language ; Mellow ; Nickname ; SLANG
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Verse
The Tutor:
A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot;
said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tooters to toot?"
Submitter comment:
Origin: Grandmother: Sarah Lipchinsky, New York City
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Verse?
Where learned: Bagley School
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Flute ; Language ; MUSIC ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; Teach ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Toot ; Tutor ; Youngster
James Callow Keyword(s): TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Blue bottom trousers, buttons made of brass, loose around the ankles tight around the ass. Ask me any questions surely I won't tell, if you don't believe me you can go to WELL...hello operator give me number nine; if the line is busy give me back my dime.
Other endings might be "you look like frankenstein" or any "-ine" ending.
Submitter comment:
He learned it in school when he was about 10 or 11
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Taste? Also, Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Blue ; Button ; Dime ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Language ; Operator ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; SONG ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Trousers ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
A tooter who tutored the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
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James Callow comment:
Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Flute ; Language ; MUSIC ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Toot ; Tutor ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Entry filtered.
Proverbial Saying
Retort:
Can't come in cans; cans come in success.
Submitter comment:
In school, 7th grade St. Theodore, SSJ, had on blackboard.
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James Callow comment:
Meaning?
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; CAN ; Can't ; Language ; Maxim ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PROVERB ; PUN ; RETORT ; SUCCESS ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Next day after never when two Sundays come together.
Submitter comment:
I heard it from my father.
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James Callow comment:
Should be under Rotten Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Day ; Language ; Never ; Never ; Next ; RETORT ; RHYME ; SLANG ; Sundays
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
A traditional reply to the word "hey" is "hay is for horses"
When a person, in conversation, pauses and says "well," then traditional answer is "wells are for water."
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V400, V300, S260] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; Hay ; Hey ; HORSES ; Language ; RETORT ; SLANG ; WATER ; Well
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Do you think money grows on trees?
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Class?
Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Language ; MONEY ; RETORT ; SLANG ; Tree
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
At dinner time, a parental question/statement as a result of crude behavior is "were you raised in a barn?"
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V400, V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Barn ; Crude ; Language ; MANNERS ; Raised ; RETORT ; Rude ; Saying
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |