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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Custom; Agriculture
Letter dated 1852 relates the events of a negro corn-shucking. Slaves invite their friends from neighboring plantations and they make a party out of shucking a tremendous amount of corn.
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Where learned: Journal of American Folklore ; A Negros Corn Shucking
Keyword(s): CORN ; CUSTOM ; Gathering ; HARVEST ; NEGRO ; PARTY ; Plantation ; Shuck ; Slavery ; Slaves ; South
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Autumn Fall Harvest Thanksgiving |
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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 |
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 |
PARSLEY BELIEF
A WOMAN WILL LOSE HER HUSBAND IF SHE TRANSPLANTS
PARSLEY.
Submitter comment:
HER MOTHER BELIEVED THIS, AND ATTRIBUTED THE PREMATURE
DEATHS OF SEVERAL NEIGHBORS TO THEIR WIVES TRANSPLANTING
PARSLEY.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; DEATH ; GARDENING ; HUSBAND ; Parsley ; SUPERSTITION ; Transplant ; Wife
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 03-10-1968
PLANT BELIEF
IF A PLANT THAT WAS GIVEN TO YOU BY A FRIEND DIES, THEN
THE FRIENDSHIP DIES, TEND BOTH WELL.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Botany ; DEATH ; fortune ; FRIENDSHIP ; GIFT ; PLANT ; Relationship ; SUPERSTITION ; WISDOM
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE ; HOMEOPATHIC ; Positive
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 11-19-1971
PLANT LEGEND
THERE IS A TREE BY THE TWO OCEANS WHICH PUTS YOU TO SLEEP WHEN
YOU SIT UNDER IT. UPON AWAKENING, YOU ARE COVERED WITH HIVES
AND THE ONLY CURE IS TO WASH IN THE OCEANS--SALT WATER REMOVES
THE HIVES.
Submitter comment:
MISS ZITZEWITZ LEARNED OF THIS FROM HER MOTHER AS A CHILD.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Botanical ; HIVES ; Legend ; Ocean ; PLANT ; Tree
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Water BELIEF -- Earth |
PLANT LEGEND
THERE IS A TREE BY THE TWO OCEANS WHICH PUTS YOU TO SLEEP WHEN
YOU SIT UNDER IT. UPON AWAKENING, YOU ARE COVERED WITH HIVES
AND THE ONLY CURE IS TO WASH IN THE OCEANS--SALT WATER REMOVES
THE HIVES.
Submitter comment:
MISS ZITZEWITZ LEARNED OF THIS FROM HER MOTHER AS A CHILD.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Botanical ; HIVES ; Legend ; Ocean ; PLANTS ; Tree
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Water BELIEF -- Earth |
Date learned: 10-01-1963
PLANT LEGEND
THERE IS A TREE BY THE TWO OCEANS WHICH PUTS YOU TO SLEEP WHEN
YOU SIT UNDER IT. UPON AWAKENING, YOU ARE COVERED WITH HIVES
AND THE ONLY CURE IS TO WASH IN THE OCEANS--SALT WATER REMOVES
THE HIVES.
Submitter comment:
MISS ZITZEWITZ LEARNED OF THIS FROM HER MOTHER AS A CHILD.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Botany ; HIVES ; Legend ; Ocean ; PLANT ; Tree
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Water BELIEF -- Earth |
Date learned: 10-01-1963
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
FOLKLORE OF GOOD LUCK
IN JAPAN, BAMBOO IS HUNG IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE HOUSE TO GIVE ITS
STRENGTH TO WARD OFF SICKNESS AND TO BE ABLE TO KEEP WORKING.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
Keyword(s): Holistic ; Japan ; LUCK ; PLANT ; SYMBOL
James Callow Keyword(s): AMULET
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: CA00001935
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ORIGINS OF GAMES: "MANY ARE ROOTED IN FESTIVE PLANTING
AND HARVEST CELEBRATIONS. 'DROP THE HANDKERCHIEF'
AND 'IN AND OUT THE WINDOW' PROBABLY STARTED WITH
CHILDREN MAKING FUN OF THE DATING HABITS OF BIG
BROTHERS AND SISTERS."
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Where learned: "NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL BULLETIN"
Keyword(s): Copy ; COURTSHIP ; Festive ; GAMES ; HARVEST ; Mimic ; PLANTING ; Play ; RITUAL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime |
LEAVES
IF THE LEAVES TURN UP AND UNDER IT'S GOING TO RAIN.
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IT USUALLY DOES RAIN IF THIS HAPPENS. IT IS A VERY GOOD
SIGN FOR TELLING IF IT IS GOING TO RAIN.
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Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5235 25TH
James Callow Keyword(s): BELIEF ; PLANT
| Subject headings: | Air / Weather / Fire BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Plants |
HOME STORM PROTECTION
WHENEVER A STORM WOULD ARISE, MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD PUT
A BLESSED PALM IN THE WINDOW.
Submitter comment:
BY PLACING A BLESSED PALM IN THE WINDOW, INFORMANT'S GRANDMOTHER
BELIEVED THIS WOULD PREVENT LIGHTNING FROM STRIKING THE HOUSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |
Date learned: 11-20-1971
HAZELWOOD TREE LEGEND
THERE IS A LEGEND ABOUT THE HAZELWOOD TREE. WHEN MARY AND JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE FLEEING TO EGYPT THEY CAME TO A POPLAR TREE THAT WAS BIG AND TALL AND STRAIGHT. MARY ASKED THE POPLAR TREE TO COVER HER UP AND PROTECT HER FROM THE RAIN. THE POPLAR TREE WOULD NOT. MARY SAID,"MAY YOU NEVER HAVE YOUR LIMBS DOWN AND MAY YOUR LEAVES NEVER REST." THIS IS WHY THE POPLAR TREE IS ALWAYS TREMBLING WHETHER THERE IS ANY WIND OR NOT. THE NEXT TREE MARY CAME TO WAS THE HAZLEWOOD TREE. THEY DO NOT GROW VERY HIGH, ARE SQUATTY AND ALWAYS HAVE A LOT OF BRANCHES ON THEM. MARY ASKED THE HAZELWOOD TREE TO COVER HER AND IT DID. SHE BLESSED THE TREE IN RETURN SAYING, "MAY YOU BE BLESSED FOR ETERNITY BECAUSE YOU HAD SHELTERED ME. MAY YOUR LEAVES BE A MEDICINE TO PEOPLE THAT NEED YOU. HEAL THEM OF THEIR DISEASES. AND MAY YOU BEAR FRUIT FOR MANKIND AND BEASTS." SINCE THEN THE HAZLEWOOD TREE HAS PRODUCED LOTS OF NUTS CALLED FILBERTS.
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Poplar branches reach up, as if arms extended in prayer.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT ANIMAL
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero Food Drink -- Plant food Nut BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-04-1972
GARLIC BELIEF
GARLIC BUILDS UP THE BLOOD.
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Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: informant's home
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-20-1969
FLOWER CUSTOM AND BELIEF
IF YOU RECEIVE FLOWERS FROM SOMEONE, DON'T THANK THEM. IF YOU DO, THE FLOWERS WON'T GROW. GOD SHOULD BE THANKED FOR CREATING THE FLOWERS AND MAKING THEM GROW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; INFORMANT'S HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Creator BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-22-1970
MAKE A WISH
MAKE A WISH AND BLOW ON A DANDELION THAT HAS GONE TO SEED AND THE SEED WILL CARRY THE WISH TO THE FOUR WINDS.
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Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT ; WEED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
CORN BELIEF
CORN IS FOR THE ANIMALS, NOT FOR PEOPLE.
Submitter comment:
A BELGIAN FRIEND TOLD MY HUSBAND AND I THIS, AND
HE WILL NOT EAT CORN.
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Informant is collector's husband.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT ; VEGETABLE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1964