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IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, YOU'RE GOING TO KISS A FOOL.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; GADSDEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose |
Date learned: 09-12-1973
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES ON THE RIGHT SIDE, A WOMAN IS COMING;
ON THE LEFT SIDE AND A MAN IS COMING.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; GADSDEN
James Callow Keyword(s): LEFT RIGHT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose |
Date learned: 09-12-1973
A WHISTLING WOMAN AND A CROWING HEN ALWAYS COME TO
SOME BAD END.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; GADSDEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 09-24-1973
NOT GIVEN
SHE'S SO SKINNY SHE HAS TO STAND TWICE TO MAKE A SHADOW.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
SLICKER'N A GREASED PIG.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
SLOW AS MOLASSES IN JANUARY.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
PROVERB
SMOKE FOLLOWS BEAUTY.
Data entry tech comment:
I USED TO HEAR THIS FROM WOMEN WHO DIDN'T SMOKE CIGARETTES
WHEN THE SMOKE FROM OTHER PEOPLE'S CIGARETTES WENT IN THEIR
FACES.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NOT GIVEN
SNAKE IT'D A BIT YA.
Submitter comment:
CONTRACTION OF "IF IT HAD BEEN A SNAKE, IT WOULD HAVE
BIT YOU," MEANING THAT AN OBJECT A PERSON WAS HUNTING
WAS RIGHT AT HIS ELBOW.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
SO DEEF HE CAN'T HEAR THUNDER.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
Keyword(s): DEAF
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
THAT TAKES THE RAG OFF THE BUSH!
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
YOU SCARED MY MULE
Submitter comment: YOU SURPRISED ME.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
THE ICE WILL BE OFF THE RIVER BY MIDNIGHT.
Submitter comment: ON A HOT DAY IN SUMMER SAY:
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
PROVERB: TAKING FOR GRANTED
YOU NEVER MISS THE WATER TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
HOW TO CALL SALLY CARTER
IN A SEANCE, PEARLS MUST BE PRESENT FOR SALLY TO GIVE A SIGN.
IF THEY ARE AND SHE DOES, WHEN THE SEANCE IS OVER THE PEARLS
WILL HAVE DISAPPEARED.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
SALLY CARTER---GHOST
SALLY DIED OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO FROM PNEUMONIA. HER GRAVE
IS IN THE FAMILY GRAVEYARD LOCATED BEHIND HER HOME, THE
THORNTON HOUSE. ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO, A FAMILY REUNION WAS
HELD THERE. ONE COUSIN, A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BASKETBALL PLAYER,
HAD TO SLEEP UPSTAIRS ON A COT.THE NEXT MORNING, HE WAS
FOUND SLEEPING IN HIS PARENT'S ROOM, HAVING MOVED THE COT.
HE WOULD SPEAK TO NO ONE UNTIL HIS UNCLE FINALLY ASKED WHAT
WAS WRONG. HE MOTIONED FOR HIS UNCLE TO FOLLOW HIM. THE
COUSIN WENT TO THE GRAVEYARD AND THEY FOUND SALLY'S
TOMBSTONE TIPPED OVER. HE THEN EXPLAINED, "DURING THE NIGHT,
A WOMAN CAME TO MY COT AND WOKE ME BY RUBBING MY FOREHEAD.
I WAS TERRIFIED AS SHE WAS A STRANGER AND APPEARED TRANSLUCENT.
SHE TOLD ME TO PLEASE GO TO THE GRAVEYARD. HER TOMBSTONE HAD
FALLEN AND WOULD I PLEASE REPLACE IT." ACCO RDING TO THE
WOMAN LIVING THERE NOW, THEY HAVE OFTEN HEARD SALLY WALKING
DOWN THE STAIRS AND SLAMMING THE BACK DOOR BEHIND HER. SHE
NEVER WALKS UP THEM, ONLY DOWN.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
SAYING
SEE A PIN, PICK IT UP
AND ALL DAY LONG, YOU'LL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C646 BELIEF -- PC86 |
Date learned: 06-30-1973
BELIEF
IF A TURTLE BITES YOU, HE WON'T LET GO 'TIL IT THUNDERS.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 07-01-1973
BELIEF
MAKE A WISH WHEN YOU GO UNDER A TREE THAT OVERHANGS THE ROAD
COMPLETELY AND YOUR WISH WILO COME TRUE.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 07-01-1973
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
THE LORD WILLIN' AND THE CRICK DON'T RISE.
Submitter comment:
THIS EXPRESSION IS SAID BY MR. SMITH WHO LIVES BETWEEN NOTTASULGA
AND LOCKAPOGO, ALABAMA. THE INFORMANT SAID THAT MR. SMITH WAS
LEARY OF COMMITTING HIMSELF TO SOMETHING THAT HE FELT WAS IN THE
POWER OF THE LORD TO KEEP HIM FROM ACCOMPOLISHING, AND THAT HE
FELT BY SAYING THIS THAT HE WASN'T TEMPING FATE. THE INFORMANT
SAID THAT HE HAD HEARD MR. SMITH SAY THIS MANY TIMES DURING THE
PAST FIFTEEN YEARS.
Data entry tech comment: COLLECTOR'S MISPELLINGS RETAINED.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; LOCKAPOGO ; NOTASULGA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
SAYING
A MAN WHO KEEPS DIRTY FINGERNAILS DO NOT TOUCH MUCH WATER.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; MOBILE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1950