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CATS KILL INFANTS BY SUCKING THEIR BREATH.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Babies ; BREATH ; Cats ; Infants ; Kill
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-14-1973
A VEIN SHOWING ACROSS THE NOSE INDICATES A SHORT LIFE.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; LIFE ; NOSE ; Vein
Date learned: 10-13-1973
AN OPAL LOSES BRILLIANCE WHEN THE WEARER IS ILL.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Brilliance ; Gem ; ILLNESS ; Opal
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure |
Date learned: 10-13-1973
BIRTHMARKS ARE DUE TO MOTHER WITNESSING UNPLEASANT OR
FRIGHTNING SIGHTS.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Birthmark ; Frighten ; Witness
Date learned: 10-13-1973
BABIES ARE FOUND UNDER THE CABBAGE LEAVES IN THE GARDEN.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Babies ; BABY ; Cabbage ; GARDEN ; Tale
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Creation and Order of Human Life BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Birth |
A CONVERSION TO SEEING A BLACK CAT CROSS THE ROAD
WHILE DRIVING IS TO MAKE AN "X" ON THE WINDSHIELD.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Black ; CAT ; Cross ; DRIVING ; Road ; SUPERSTITION ; X
James Callow Keyword(s): AUTOMOBILE
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, SOMEONE'S COMING WITH A HOLE IN
THEIR BRITCHES.
Submitter comment:
BRITCHES=PANTS
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): BRITCHES ; Company ; Hole ; HOSPITALITY ; ITCH ; NOSE ; OMEN
| Subject headings: | Observation Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
IT'S BAD LUCK TO TURN AROUND AND GO BACK TO GET
SOMETHING YOU FORGOT WHEN STARTING ON A TRIP.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Bad ; LUCK ; Return ; TRIP ; Turn Around
| 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: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
SMOKE FOLLOWS BEAUTY.
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"SMOKE FROM AN OUT-OF-DOOR FIRE DRIFTS TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
PERSON WITHIN RANGE"--#675 IN HAND, NORTH CAROLINA.
ALSO SEE HAND & TALLEY, UTAH #2134; PUCKETT OHIO #5713.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; BEAUTY ; Maxim ; Saying ; Smoke
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Human Being BELIEF -- Fire PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
REALLY REALLY OLD GREASY RAG, AND PUT TWO WALNUTS IN IT. WHOEVER HAS THE WARTS MUST CARRY IT IN POCKET FOR TWO DAYS.
THEN AFTER THE DAYS, BURY IT DEEP IN GROUND AND CAN'T
TELL A SOUL WHERE YOU HID IT.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): AILMENT ; Bury ; CURE ; Grease ; Rag ; REMEDY ; SECRET ; Walnuts ; Wart
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
CURE FOR INDIGESTION:
BAKING SODA IN WATER.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): AILMENT ; Baking Soda ; CURE ; INDIGESTION ; REMEDY ; WATER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
CURE FOR COUGHING:
MIX BAKING SODA AND MOLASSES
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): AILMENT ; Baking Soda ; COUGH ; CURE ; Molasses ; REMEDY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
IF A SNAPPING TURTLE BITES YOUR TOE, HE WON'T LET GO
UNTIL IT THUNDERS.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Turtle, Snapping, Bite, Thunder, Toe
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
THINGS OR PEOPLE ALWAYS COME IN THREE'S.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Maxim ; NUMBERS ; NUMBERS ; NUMEROLOGY ; People ; Saying ; Things ; THREE
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
IF BOTTOM OF FEET BURN, IT'LL RAIN.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Burn ; FEET ; OMEN ; Rain ; SIGN ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
IF COWS LAY DOWN UNDER A TREE, YOU CAN BE SURE IT'S GOING
TO RAIN.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): BEHAVIOR ; Cows ; OMEN ; Rain ; SIGN ; Tree ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
IF IT RAINS ON FIRST DAY OF MONTH, THERE'LL BE
FIFTEEN DAYS OF RAIN DURING THAT MONTH.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CORNERSVILLE
Keyword(s): Fifteen ; Month ; NUMBER ; OMEN ; Rain ; SIGN ; WEATHER
Date learned: 00001972-00001973 (ASSUMED)
IT IS A COMMON BELIEF AMONG GRAVEDIGGERS (OR WAS) THAT
A DEAD MAN'S "REST" WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE QUALITY OF
THE EARTH IN WHICH HE IS BURIED--THAT IF IT IS SOFT AND
CLAYLIKE, HE WILL NOT BE DISTURBED, BUT IF IT IS HARD
AND STONY, HIS GHOST WILL BE RESTLESS.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): AFTERLIFE ; BELIEF ; Clay ; GHOST ; GHOSTS ; Grave ; Gravedigger ; Haunt ; Peace ; QUALITY ; Rock ; Soil
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
WHENEVER A GROUP OF CATS GATHER IN A GRAVEYARD ON THE
NIGHT OF THE NEW MOON, THEY ARE INHABITED FOR THAT NIGHT
BY THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD. THEY WILL CONVERSE (LOUDLY)
ALL NIGHT LONG, BUT IN THE MORNING THEY WILL BE "ONLY"
CATS AGAIN.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MCKENZIE
Keyword(s): Cats ; Dead ; GHOST ; GRAVEYARD ; Inhabit ; MOON ; New Moon ; SPIRIT ; Tale
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 10-14-1973