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EVERY TIME HIS SISTER'S BOYFRIEND CAME OVER, HE
WOULD CRINGE WITH FEAR WHENEVER THE DOG CAME
NEAR HIM. HIS BELIEF WAS THAT DOGS BROUGHT
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-00-1967
NEVER CROSS THE PATH OF A BLACK CAT.
Submitter comment: THIS IS A SUPERSTITION THAT'S KNOWN TO EVERYONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-15-1971
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
IF YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING AND THE FIRST THING
YOU SEE IN THE MORNING IS A BLACK CAT, YOU ARE
GOING TO GET BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS BAD LUCK TO KILL A LADYBUG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): INSECT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
RIDDLE
HOW FAR IN CAN YOU GO INTO A FOREST?
-- HALF WAY. THEN YOU START GOING OUT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; COLLECTORS HOME ; TOLD IN
Keyword(s): DISTANCE MEASURMENT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
IT IS BELIEVED THAT KILLING AN ALBATROSS WILL BRING
BAD LUCK TO THE PEOPLE ON THE SHIP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD ; MARITIME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
IT IS BAD LUCK TO KILL AN ALBATROSS WHILE ON BOARD
SHIP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD ; MARITIME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 03-15-1968
SAILORS NEVER KILL AN ALBATROSS BECAUSE THIS WILL
BRING BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM ONE OF HER FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD ; MARITIME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-11-1971
KILLING AN ALBATROSS IN OPEN SEASON IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BIRD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-25-1969
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
IF YOU WHISTLE OR SING AT THE TABLE, YOU WISH BAD
LUCK ON SOMEONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 10-03-1969
NEW YEAR'S DAY FOOD TRADITION
ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, THE CORN BREAD HAD WITH THE POOR BOY'S MEAL
CONTAINS A DIME WHICH WILL GIVE GOOD LUCK TO THE PERSON WHO GETS IT.
Submitter comment: ITEM WAS LEARNED IN WEST VIRGINIA ALTHOUGH COLLECTED IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BOTSFORD GRADE SCHOOL ; CLARENCEVILLE DISTRICT
Date learned: 11-00-1982
IT IS BAD LUCK FOR ACTORS AND ACTRESSES TO WHISTLE
IN THEIR DRESSING ROOMS BEFORE GOING ON STAGE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | DRAMA -- Secular BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
NEW YEAR'S DAY FOOD TRADITION
ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, A POOR BOY'S MEAL IS HAD CONSISTING OF BOILED
CABBAGE, BOILED POTATOES, HAM HOCKS AND CORN BREAD.
Submitter comment: ITEM WAS LEARNED IN WEST VIRGINIA ALTHOUGH COLLECTED IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BOTSFORD GRADE SCHOOL ; CLARENCEVILLE DISTRICT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's Food Drink -- Typical menus for the various meals For meal hours, see F574.84. Special or festive meals |
Date learned: 11-00-1982
IF A GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE WALKING TOGETHER AND ONE OF
THEM WALKS AROUND THE TREE, THE ONE WHO WALKED
AROUND THE TREE WILL HAVE SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities BELIEF -- Bad luck Plants |
Date learned: 10-30-1968
IF YOU SEW ON SUNDAY, IT'S BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT WAS TOLD THIS BY HIS PENNSYLVANIA MOTHER
IN HIS CHILDHOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Date learned: 01-12-1967
SEEING YOUR ADOPTED SON OR DAUGHTER THE FIRST THING
IN THE MORNING IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
DO NOT EVER MOVE INTO A HOUSE IF THE CHIMNEY OF THE
HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET IS BURNING. IT WILL ONLY
BRING BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 03-03-1971
IT IS BAD LUCK FOR A COUPLE TO HAVE THEIR PICTURE
TAKEN TOGETHER. IT WILL LEAD TO A BREAK-UP IN
THE ROMANCE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): Photography
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Marriage Dating Courtship BELIEF -- Bad luck Activities |
Date learned: 03-01-1971