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WHENEVER I MADE URINE, I SHOULD SPIT INTO IT FOR GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; SIGNET BOOK ; THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ; PAGE 81
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Good luck Body parts and functions |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
IF YOU SPAT ON EACH GRAIN OF CORN THAT WAS PLANTED, THE CORN
WOULD GROW TALL AND BEAR WELL.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; SIGNET BOOK ; THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ; PAGE 82
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
IF I WAS GOOD TO MY MOTHER, I WOULD GROW OLD AND RICH.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; SIGNET BOOK ; THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ; PAGE 82
Date learned: 00-00-1945
IF I COVERED A MIRROR WHEN A STORM WAS RAGING, THE LIGHTNING
WOULD NOT STRIKE ME.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; SIGNET BOOK ; THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ; PAGE 82
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
JUMP-ROPE RIME
SALT, PEPPER, VINEGAR, SPICE.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; WILSON
Keyword(s): SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 03-12-1972
SPIRIT OF THE HOUSE
IT IS AN ITALIAN BELIEF THAT EVERY HOUSEHOLD HAS A GOOD
SPIRIT THAT REMAINS WITH IT, AND CAN SOMETIMES BE SEEN.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: NEW YORK ; AUBURN
Keyword(s): GHOST ; Haunt ; HAUNTED HOUSE ; Home ; House ; Italian ; SPIRIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 12-00-1971
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"'WILL HE OR WILL HE NOT?' HE ASKED HIMSELF. HE TOOK A COIN
FROM HIS POCKET AND SPUN IT UPON THE FLOOR. 'HEADS, HE SEES
HER; TAILS, HE DOES NOT.'"
Where learned: NEW YORK ; COLLIER BOOKS ; PAGE 94
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object P860.16 |
Date learned: 00-00-1969
WHEN A MEMBER OF THE JEWISH FAITH IS BURIED, A MEMBER OF THEIR
FAMILY MUST SHOVEL THE FIRST SHOVEL OF DIRT ONTO THE CASKET.
IF THEY ARE MARRIED IT MUST BE THE SPOUSE. IF THEY ARE NOT MARRIED
IT MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY.
Submitter comment: LEARNED IN BROOKLYN NEW YORK
Where learned: NEW YORK ; BROOKLYN
GRAFFITI
JESUS SAVES...S & H GREEN STAMPS.
Submitter comment:
I READ THIS AT THE MEN'S JOHN OF AN ICE CREAM PARLOUR IN GREENWICH VILLAGE.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; GREENWICH VILLAGE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Date learned: 08-00-1969
SPIRIT OF THE HOUSE
ITALIANS BELIEVE THAT EVERY HOUSEHOLD HAS A GOOD SPIRIT,
OR GHOST. THE INFORMANT SAYS THAT SHE WAS LYING AWAKE
IN BED LATE ONE NIGHT ABOUT 35 YEARS AGO. SHE HEARD A
CREAKING NOISE OUTSIDE THE DOOR OF THE BEDROOM AND SAW
THE FIGURE OF THE WOMAN WITH DARK HAIR AND A WHITE
NIGHTGOWN GLIDE BY INTO THE LIVING ROOM. SHE THOUGHT
ONE OF HER FOUR DAUGHTERS HAD COME DOWNSTAIRS, BUT SHE
HAD HEARD NO ONE ON THE STAIRWAY. MRS. TROIANI GOT OUT
OF BED AND WENT INTO THE LIVING ROOM. THERE WAS NO ONE
THERE. SHE THEN WENT UPSTAIRS AND FOUND ALL FOUR
DAUGHTERS FAST ASLEEP. THE DAUGHTERS INSIST STILL THAT
THEY DID NOT GO DOWNSTAIRS THAT NIGHT. MRS. TROIANI
BELIEVES THAT SHE SAW THE "SPIRIT OF THE HOUSE."
Where learned: NEW YORK ; AUBURN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 12-00-1971
DRINKING
IF SOMEONE OFFERS YOU A DRINK OUT OF HIS GLASS AND YOU
REFUSE IT, IT MEANS "I DON'T CARE FOR YOU."
Submitter comment: PRACTICE LEARNED IN HOME OF MUNICH, GERMANY
Where learned: NEW YORK ; BRONXVILLE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
SPIRIT OF THE HOUSE
IT IS AN ITALIAN BELIEF THAT EVERY HOUSEHOLD HAS A GOOD
SPIRIT THAT REMAINS WITH IT AND SOMETIMES CAN BE SEEN.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; AUBURN
James Callow Keyword(s): COBOLD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 12-00-1971
SPIRIT OF THE HOUSE
ITALIANS BELIEVE THAT EVERY HOUSEHOLD HAS A GOOD SPIRIT,
OR GHOST. THE INFORMANT SAYS THAT SHE WAS LYING AWAKE
IN BED LATE ONE NIGHT ABOUT 35 YEARS AGO. SHE HEARD A
CREAKING NOISE OUTSIDE THE DOOR OF THE BEDROOM AND SAW
THE FIGURE OF THE WOMAN WITH DARK HAIR AND A WHITE
NIGHTGOWN GLIDE BY INTO THE LIVING ROOM. SHE THOUGHT
ONE OF HER FOUR DAUGHTERS HAD COME DOWNSTAIRS, BUT SHE
HAD HEARD NO ONE ON THE STAIRWAY. MRS. TROIANI GOT OUT
OF BED AND WENT INTO THE LIVING ROOM. THERE WAS NO ONE
THERE. SHE THEN WENT UPSTAIRS AND FOUND ALL FOUR
DAUGHTERS FAST ASLEEP. THE DAUGHTERS INSIST STILL THAT
THEY DID NOT GO DOWNSTAIRS THAT NIGHT. MRS. TROIANI
BELIEVES THAT SHE SAW THE "SPIRIT OF THE HOUSE."
Where learned: NEW YORK ; AUBURN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 12-00-1971
BEAVER
A COMMON CHILDHOOD GAME PLAYED DURING CAR TRIPS IS
COUNTING "BEAVERS," OR STATION WAGONS, WITH THE WINNER
BEING THE ONE HAVING COUNTED THE MOST BEAVERS DURING
THE TRIP. THE FIRST PERSON TO SEE A STATION WAGON SAYS
"BEAVER," AND CLAIMS IT AS HIS. IN THIS WAY TOTALS
ARE ADDED.
Submitter comment: THIS GAME WAS FREQUENTLY PLAYED BY MYSELF DURING CHILDHOOD.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; POUGHKEEPSIE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C531 |
"IF GOD, IN ANCIENT TIMES, HAD SPOKEN TO MEN IN VISIONS OF THE
NIGHT, WHAT EASIER WAY COULD THERE BE FOR HIM TO CONVEY HIS
MEANING TO PEOPLE OF ALL AGES? SCIENCE, WHICH HAS SHATTERED
MANY AN IDOL AND DESTROYED MANY A DELUSION, HAS MADE BUT SLIGHT
INROADS UPON THE SHADOWY REALM OF DREAMS. FOR MIS' MOLLY, TO
WHOM SCIENCE WOULD HAVE MEANT NOTHING AND PSYCHOLOGY WOULD
HAVE BEEN A MEANINGLESS TERM, THE LAND OF DREAMS WAS CAREFULLY
MAPPED AND BOUNDED. EACH DREAM HAD SOME SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE,
OR WAS AT LEAST SUSCEPTIBLE OF CLASSIFICATION UNDER SOME
SIGNIFICANT HEAD. DREAMS, AS A GENERAL RULE, WENT BY
CONTRARIES; BUT A DREAM THREE TIMES REPEATED WAS A CERTAIN
PORTENT OF THE THING DEFINED."
Where learned: NEW YORK ; COLLIER BOOKS ; PAGE 84
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Dreams |
Date learned: 00-00-1969
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.
A CHANT OF THE TITLE IS SAID WHILE THE PLAYERS, IN TURN, MAKE
DIFFERENT GESTURES. ALL THE PLAYERS MUST DO THE GESTURES IN TURN
AND IN THE RIGHT MANNER, AND THE WINNER IS THE LAST PERSON WHO
COMPLETES THE SERIES WITHOUT A MISTAKE.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; FAIRPORT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime C500.522 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Memory |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
TAUNTING SONG
I'M GOING TO SEND MY BOY TO BONA,
ACROSS THE DIRTY RAILROAD TRACKS.
I'M GOING TO SEND MY BOY TO BONA,
AND HOPE TO HELL HE DON'T COME BACK, HE DON'T COME BACK. MM
I'M GOING TO SEND MY BOY TO BONA,
WHERE THEY WILL EDUCATE HIM WELL, LIKE HELL.
I'M GOING TO SEND MY BOY TO BONA,
OH YES I AM, LIKE HELL.
HERE'S TO DEAR OLD BONA-A! WUMPHF!
THIS SONG IS SUNG MANY TIMES AT EACH CANISIUS COLLEGE-
ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL GAME BY THE CANISIUS
FANS. THERE EXISTS A FIERCE RIVALRY BETWEEN THE TWO.
Submitter comment:
"BONA" IS PRONOUNCED LIKE THE FIRST TWO SYLLABLES OF
BONAVENTURE.
Data entry tech comment:
Keypunched by R.J.Miller 11/82
Updated by TRD 01/12
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
Keyword(s): EDUCATION ; HUMOR ; IRONY ; Lyrics ; RHYME ; SONG
James Callow Keyword(s): EDUCATION ; IRONY ; SATIRE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School |
Date learned: 11-00-1966
FOOD BELIEF
IF YOU EAT SPINACH, YOU'LL HAVE LONG HAIR AND ROSY CHEEKS.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant is collector's mother.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE ; FUNCTION ; Positive
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Vegetable Food Drink -- Special Form and PurposeObject of Bodily Consumption BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD