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Belief: Weather
RED SKY IN MORNING, SAILOR'S WARNING
RED SKY AT NIGHT, SAILOR'S DELIGHT
Submitter comment:
TAUGHT TO ME WHEN I WAS A KID.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BLOOMFIELD HILLS
Keyword(s): COLOR ; NATURE ; Nautical ; Ocean ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; Sailor ; Sky ; WARNING ; WEATHER
Date learned: 11-23-1979
FUNERAL CUSTOM
THE ST. AMOUR'S HAVE ALWAYS HAD THE SONG "NOW I SEE
HIM FACE TO FACE " PLAYED OR SANG AT FAMILY FUNERALS.
Submitter comment:
THIS TRADITION STARTED WITH MRS. ST. AMOUR,S GRANDMOTHER.
IT WAS PLAYED AT HER FUNERAL.
IT WAS ALSO PLAYED AT HER OLDER SISTER,S FUNERAL.
MRS. ST. AMOUR'S AUNT HEARD THIS SONG THROUGH THE BED SPRINGS
ON HER DEATH BED.
SHE DIED A SHORT TIME LATER.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BLOOMFIELD HILLS
Keyword(s): CUSTOM ; Funeral ; RITUAL ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Crucial moment of life Life cycle C434.546 |
Date learned: 12-03-1982
Retort
In answer to Polish greeting of "jak tam wiszi," (how's it hanging?) one might say "STOI!"
It literally means standing, but may be translated as "up tight and out of sight" or "everything is ok."
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added By TRD
James Callow comment:
Reply to Greeting. Greeting itself is already on another card. Greeting?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Casual ; CONVERSATION ; POLISH ; RETORT ; SLANG
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Duplicate
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Maxim ; PROCRASTINATION ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
When Mrs. Bergen poured me a cup of hot tea, she said "Look at all the money that I gave you." The "money" refers to all the air bubbles which accumulate in your cup and gather at the center, which look like silver change is one stretches his imagination.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [N446 f578.4] crossed out. Nothing Replaces them.
Submission card located in a pile marked To Be Classified.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON ; Shiawassee Apartments ; Farmington Place
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; COIN MONEY ; Fortune Telling ; MONEY ; SUPERSTITION ; TEA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object BELIEF -- Use of Object Food PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Asking for money from a stranger and getting it can prove
to be rewarding for the man or woman who has given the
money out. For the reason being that "Good Luck" will
follow him or her for the rest of the day.
Submitter comment:
My father seemed very optimistic when he was telling me
this story.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
Keyword(s): money, green
James Callow Keyword(s): donor
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Measure of quality Monetary systemMoneyWealth BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1983
A TONGUE WEIGHS PRACTICALLY NOTHING, YET IT'S HARD TO HOLD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-20-1987 ; 10-24-1987
POLISH SAYING
LIVE, NOT DIE.
(ONE SAYS THIS TO SOMEONE WHO IS HAVING A GOOD TIME SO
THAT HE WILL NOT GET CARRIED AWAY.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
WHEN THERE ARE TWO COOKS THERE IS NOTHING.
(TOO MANY WORKING AT A JOB WILL SPOIL IT.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH CUSTOM FOR EPIPHANY
FOR EPIPHANY ONE WOULD GO TO CHURCH AND GET CHALK
AND INCENSE. WITH THE CHALK ONE WOULD WRITE ABOVE THE
DOORWAY TO ONE'S HOME THE NUMBER OF THE NEW YEAR AND THE
INITIALS OF THE THREE KINGS. IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:
19 + K + M + B + 84
THIS STOOD FOR PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS IN THE NEW YEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 6 Twelfth Day Epiphany |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH CUSTOMS FOR SAINT JOSEPH'S DAY
JOSEPH IS POLAND'S PATRON SAINT. ON HIS FEAST DAY WHICH
FALLS DURING LENT, THE PEOPLE WERE DISPENSED WITH THE
OBSERVENCE OF LENT. IT WAS A DAY OF RELIEF FROM THE
FASTING AND OTHER PRACTICES. IN AMERICA THE PEOPLE
OF POLISH DESCENT WEAR RED AND WHITE WHICH ARE POLAND'S
NATIONAL COLORS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- March 19 Feast of St. Joseph |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING IN RHYME
"STARDUSH NE ARDUSH"
OLD AGE ISN'T A PLEASURE
Submitter comment: I DON'T KNOW IF THE SPELLING OF THE POLISH IS CORRECT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
AS LIFE, SO DEATH.
(AS YOU LIVE, SO YOU WILL DIE.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
James Callow Keyword(s): ELLIPSIS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
THE OX DOES NOT REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS A CALF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
AS JACOB TO GOD, SO GOD TO JACOB.
(AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
James Callow Keyword(s): CHIASMUS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
A COTTAGE POOR BUT CLEAN.
Submitter comment: THE POLISH ALWAYS HAVE A CLEAN, WELL KEPT HOUSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
MOTHER'S VOICE IS GOD'S VOICE.
(MOTHER KNOWS BEST.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
EACH SCRAPES HIS OWN TURNIP.
(EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SAYING
TO AN OLD MAID EVEN HER HOUSE DRESS IS IN HER WAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: 12-00-1983
POLISH SALUTATION
WHEN ONE MEETS A CLERIC OR NUN, ONE SAYS:
"PRAISED BE JESUS CHRIST."
THE PRIEST OR NUN THEN ANSWERS:
"FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Farmington Hills
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 12-00-1983