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IF YOU WALK AROUND A POLE YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| 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: NOT GIVEN
DON'T PLAY WITH YOUR SHADOW IN THE MIRROR OR YOU WILL LOSE
YOUR SHADOW.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU WASH YOUR CLOTHES ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, YOU WILL WASH
SOMEONE OUT OF YOUR FAMILY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
KILL A RED BIRD AND YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
JEPSEN WEED--GOOD FOR SWELLING AND FOR HEADACHE. CRUSH
IT AND PUT IT IN A CLOTH (BRUISE IT).
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BROWNED FLOUR FOR HEAT RASH
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
MULLEIN HERB IS GOOD FOR SWELLING. STEEP THIS IN WATER
AND THEN BATHE THE SWOLLEN PART IN IT. DON'T DRINK THIS!
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WILD SAGE (STEEP THIS)---GOOD FOR MEASLES. THIS WILL BRING
OUT THE MEASLES. MAKES YOU BREAK OUT IN A RASH SO IT WON'T
SETTLE INTERNALLY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS BAD LUCK TO LET THE SHADOW OF THE CASKET FALL ON
THE MIRROR, IT WILL ALSO TURN THE MIRRORS BLACK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Bad luck Crucial moment of life |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
MINT IN WATER---GOOD FOR UPSET STOMACH
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH TURN AROUND AND SPIT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
GOOD FRIDAY---PLANT SOMETHING ON THIS DAY.
FIRST PLANTING DAY---BETTER GROWTH FOR PLANTS
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Animal Husbandry Farming Ranching BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- P663 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A CAT CAN CHARM BIRDS WITH THEIR EYES, THIS IS HOW THEY
CATCH BIRDS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Bird |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SAY MARY BETH TEN TIMES IN THE MIRROR AND IF SHE COMES AND
SMILES AT YOU SHE WILL BE YOUR FRIEND, BUT IF SHE DOESN'T
SMILE SHE WILL CHOKE YOU. NO ONE KNEW WHO MARY BETH WAS,
BUT THEY BELIEVED SHE COULD COME.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Charm / Enchantment / Conjuration 686 First / Once / One / Newness BELIEF -- Witch Shaman |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ASPHODEL PLANT (ASPHIDITY) WORN AROUND NECK TO WARD OFF
GERMS, MEASLES, ETC. MAGGIE SAID IT WAS WORN TO SCHOOL.
NOW ASPHIDITY SMELLS SO BAD THAT IT WAS PROBABLY WORKING
BECAUSE ALL THE KIDS KEPT THEIR DISTANCES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): ASAFETIDA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
DURING THE FIRST THREE MONTHS IF A (PREGNANT) WOMAN CRAVES
SOME FOOD SUCH AS CAKE AND SHE DOESN'T GET IT WHEN SHE IS CRAVING
FOR IT SHE MUST BE SURE TO PUT HER HANDS ON THE BACK
OF HER RUMP BECAUSE WHERE EVER SHE PLACES HER HANDS
THAT IS WHERE A BIRTHMARK WILL DEVELOP.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT WAS TOLD TO ME BY A BLACK MAN THAT IT WAS UNLUCKY TO
RECEIVE A KNIFE WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. THEREFORE, HE SAID
I SHOULD NEVER RECEIVE A KNIFE AS A GIFT, BUT MUST AT
LEAST GIVE THE PERSON WHO WAS OFFERING ME THE KNIFE A
PENNY. THE MAN COULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT BY PAYING FOR
THE KNIFE IT WAS MORE PERSONALLY HIS AND THEREBY THE
KNIFE WOULD PROTECT HIM MORE WHEN HE USED IT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU DROP A KNIFE, A MAN IS SUPPOSE (D) TO COME TO VISIT
WITHIN THE DAY FROM THE DIRECTION THAT THE KNIFE IS
POINTING. IF YOU DROP A FORK IT MEANS A WOMAN, IF YOU
DROP A SPOON IT MEANS A CHILD.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU DROP A SPOON IT MEANS A LADY GUEST IS COMING.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 07-01-1973
IF YOU DROP A FORK IT MEANS MALE GUEST IS COMING.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 07-01-1973