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IF YOU TOUCHED A FROG, YOU'D GET WARTS.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT RELATED THIS BELIEF, BUT DID NOT SEEM
TO HOLD CREDENCE IN IT HIMSELF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
Date learned: 11-23-1970
HOME REMEDY FOR COLD OR COUGH: TAKE A BOTTLE OF
BOURBON, EMPTY INTO A FRUIT JAR. ADD ROCK CANDY,
SUNFLOWER SEEDS, HONEY, SLICED ORANGES, LEMONS.
LET STAND AND USE AS NEEDED.
Submitter comment: REMEDY WAS USED WHEN INFORMANT WAS A YOUNG BOY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
COW DUNG WAS SOMETIMES USED TO CURE A SORE THROAT. IT
WAS APPLIED TO THE OUTSIDE OF THROAT, AND THEN CLOTHS
WERE WRAPPED AROUND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
GOOSE LARD WAS USED A LOT AS A REMEDY FOR CHEST COLDS.
THE CHEST WAS RUBBED WITH IT.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT RECALLS THIS FROM HIS CHILDHOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
CERTAIN RHEUMATIC ACHES AND PAINS INDICATE A DRASTIC
CHANGE IN THE WEATHER CAN BE EXPECTED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Pains |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, MRS. FINNIGAN, USED
TO COME OVER TO VISIT MY GRANDMOTHER AND OFTEN THEY
HAD TEA. SHE WOULD TURN HER CUP OVER AND TURN IT
AROUND THREE TIMES, TAKE THE CUP OFF THE SAUCER
AND READ THE TEA LEAVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object Plant |
Date learned: 03-02-1971
IF A WOMAN WALKED INTO A ROOM WHERE BEER WAS
FERMENTING, AND SHE WAS IN HER MONTHLY PERIOD,
YOU'D HAVE A SPOILED BATCH OF BEER.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT RELATED BELIEF BUT DID NOT HOLD
CREDENCE IN IT HIMSELF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Alcoholic beverage Fermented BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
IF YOUR PALM OF EITHER HAND ITCHES, IT MEANS THAT
SOMEONE IS GOING TO GIVE YOU MONEY.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT WAS TOLD THIS BY A NEIGHBOR WHEN SHE WAS
GROWING UP IN HAMTRAMCK (MICHIGAN).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails |
Date learned: 09-28-1971
LEGEND ABOUT THE DEVIL
DURING LENT, AT NIGHT, IF YOU WENT TO A DANCE OR A
SHOW, YOU'D MEET THE DEVIL ON THE WAY HOME. HE'D
BE ALL DRESSED UP, BUT YOU COULD TELL HIM BY HIS
FEET; HE'D HAVE HOOFS. HE'D HAVE A CLEFT HOOF FOR
A FOOT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
Keyword(s): CLOVEN HOOFS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
BELIEF ABOUT A GHOST
MY MOTHER WAS VERY ILL. BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THE
ILLNESS, HER BED WAS PLACED IN THE PARLOR. SOMEBODY
USUALLY SAT WITH HER AT ALL TIMES. THERE WAS A
PIANO IN THE PARLOR. ALL OF A SUDDEN A NOISE CAME FROM
THE PIANO, AS IF A KEY WAS BEING STRUCK.
THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT THIS INCIDENT MADE SUCH AN IMPRESSION
UPON HIM AS A CHILD, THAT HE HAS NEVER FORGOTTEN IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
Keyword(s): SICKROOM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
THERE WAS A FARMER BOY WHO SWALLOWED THE SEEDS TO
WATERMELONS WHEN HE ATE THEM AND WATERMELONS GREW
IN HIS STOMACH SO YOU SHOULDN'T SWALLOW THE SEEDS
WHEN YOU EAT WATERMELON, YOU SHOULD SPIT THEM OUT.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT'S MOTHER TOLD HIM THIS WHEN HE WAS
TEN YEARS OLD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Physically handicapped Deformed PROSE NARRATIVE -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SUPERSTITION
{TO AVOID BEING STRUCK} DURING A THUNDERSTORM, IN
ENGLAND, IN THE EARLY 1900S, EVERYONE COVERED THEIR
SILVERWARE AND MIRRORS FOR FEAR OF BEING STRUCK BY
LIGHNING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ENGLAND ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00001900S EARLY ; 03-09-1971
GAME
THAT'S LIFE.
WHAT'S LIFE?
A MAGAZINE.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
IT COSTS TWENTY CENTS.
I{VE} ONLY GOT A NICKEL.
THAT'S LIFE.
WHAT'S LIFE?
ETC.
Submitter comment:
I PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS A CHILD, IT ONLY CONSISTS
OF REPREATING THE SAYING AND CAN GO ON FOREVER; IT
MAY ALSO BE SUNG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THERE WAS ONE ABOUT THE PRIEST WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ALL THE
SINS HE HEARD IN CONFESSION. THEN THE DOORBELL RANG, AND HE
NEVER SHOWED UP AGAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Supernatural Being PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 10-00-1970
HYDE PARK
TEXT KEYPUNCHED IN NOVEMBER, 1972--ALSO IN 5X8 FILE CABINET
THERE WERE THESE TWO MEN WHO USED TO COME TO HYDE PARK ALL THE TIME.
ONE WAS A FUNDAMENTALIST, AND THE OTHER WAS AN ATHEIST. THE ATHEIST
ALWAYS SAID "IF THERE IS A GOD, LET HIM STRIKE ME DOWN."AND THE
FUNDAMENTALIST SAID"YOU'D BETTER WATCH IT OR HE WILL." SO THE
FUNDAMENTALIST GOT A GUN AND HID BEHIND A BUSH AND WHEN THE ATHEIST
SAID HIS LINE, HE SHOT HIM. BUT THE FUNDAMENTALIST THOUGHT HE KILLED
HIM AND SAID "WELL MAYBE THERE ISN{T A GOD IF HE LET ME KILL HIM."
AND AS THE ATHEIST RECOVERED, HE SAID "MAYBE THERE IS A GOD." SO
FROM THEN ON, THEY CHANGED PLACES IN THE PARK.
Submitter comment: FUNDAMENTALIST
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
LEGEND ABOUT THE DEVIL
DURING LENT, AT NIGHT, IF YOU WENT TO A DANCE OR A
SHOW, YOU'D MEET THE DEVIL ON THE WAY HOME. HE'D
BE ALL DRESSED UP, BUT YOU COULD TELL HIM BY HIS
FEET; HE'D HAVE HOOFS. HE'D HAVE A CLEFT HOOF FOR
A FOOT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
Keyword(s): CLOVEN HOOFS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
BELIEF ABOUT A GHOST
MY MOTHER WAS VERY ILL. BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THE
ILLNESS, HER BED WAS PLACED IN THE PARLOR. SOMEBODY
USUALLY SAT WITH HER AT ALL TIMES. THERE WAS A
PIANO IN THE PARLOR. ALL OF A SUDDEN A NOISE CAME FROM
THE PIANO, AS IF A KEY WAS BEING STRUCK.
THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT THIS INCIDENT MADE SUCH AN IMPRESSION
UPON HIM AS A CHILD, THAT HE HAS NEVER FORGOTTEN IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
Keyword(s): SICKROOM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
THERE WAS A FARMER BOY WHO SWALLOWED THE SEEDS TO
WATERMELONS WHEN HE ATE THEM AND WATERMELONS GREW
IN HIS STOMACH SO YOU SHOULDN'T SWALLOW THE SEEDS
WHEN YOU EAT WATERMELON, YOU SHOULD SPIT THEM OUT.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT'S MOTHER TOLD HIM THIS WHEN HE WAS
TEN YEARS OLD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Physically handicapped Deformed PROSE NARRATIVE -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SUPERSTITION
{TO AVOID BEING STRUCK} DURING A THUNDERSTORM, IN
ENGLAND, IN THE EARLY 1900S, EVERYONE COVERED THEIR
SILVERWARE AND MIRRORS FOR FEAR OF BEING STRUCK BY
LIGHNING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ENGLAND ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00001900S EARLY ; 03-09-1971
GAME
THAT'S LIFE.
WHAT'S LIFE?
A MAGAZINE.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
IT COSTS TWENTY CENTS.
I{VE} ONLY GOT A NICKEL.
THAT'S LIFE.
WHAT'S LIFE?
ETC.
Submitter comment:
I PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS A CHILD, IT ONLY CONSISTS
OF REPREATING THE SAYING AND CAN GO ON FOREVER; IT
MAY ALSO BE SUNG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formula tale |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN