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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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IF TWO PEOPLE SAY SOMETHING AT THE SAME TIME, ONE SAYS "JINX" AND COUNTS TO TEN. IF TEN IS REACHED BEFORE THE OTHER PERSON SAYS "STOP," THE SECOND PERSON OWES THE FIRST TEN COKES.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NOT LIFTING YOUR FEET WHEN GOING OVER RAILROAD TRACKS MEANS YOU'LL LOSE YOUR BOYFRIEND.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
TAKING THE BITE OF FOOD THAT HAPPENS TO BE THE LAST MEANS YOU'LL BE AN OLD MAID OR BACHELOR.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PENNY IN THE BOTTOM OF A NEW PURSE IF GIVEN AS A GIFT INSURES MONEY THERE ALWAYS.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
JOHNNY OVER THE OCEAN,
JOHNNY OVER THE SEA,
JOHNNY BROKE A TEA-POT
AND BLAMED IT ONTO ME.
I TOLD MA, MA TOLD PA
AND JOHNNY GOT A LICKING
HA HA HA!
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED
GOD'S MOVING THE FURNITURE WHEN IT THUNDERS: "GOD'S MOVING
THE FURNITURE."
Submitter comment:
Learned in childhood.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.2 BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7 |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
Games--Chants or Warnings
"Poison or stone poison"--player was tagged if he stepped off stones.
Chant--"Tread not purposely on pebblestones for it is the art of a fool."
"Honey Pots." The "honey pot" was a boy or girl coiled up and carried by two other children in a "chair" made by crossing the hands and arms. The players often chanted--"Carry your honey not safe and sound, or it will fall upon the ground."
It was the fate of some "honey pots" to find themselves sprawled on the ground and easy prey for marauding "bears."
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Meeting the King and Queen of England
A kind of trick game. All the children are kept outside the room except two, a male and a female. These two sit on two chairs with about the space of another chair between them. The chairs are draped with a sheet in order that when the "king" and "queen" sit on the chairs, the vacant space is not visible.Then one by one the other children are brought in individually and requested by the king and queen to sit between them. Of course, the child falls . . . expecting to sit on a chair but instead finding only air.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Postman's Knock
One person is outside the room. He knocks at the door and says, "I've got a letter here." Someone says, "Who for?" To which the postman gives a name and then kisses whoever the "letter" was for.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Games
In jump rope slang:
Hot peppers or red hots--turning the rope very fast.
High waters--swaying the rope back and forth--each time getting higher and higher.
Run through school--Each person "runs in" and jumps once, then twice, then three times, and on up to twelve. Those who miss are considered "out."
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Jump Rope Slang
"Front doors"--face the rope as it turns clockwise, run and jump into it.
"Back doors"--face the rope as it turns counter clockwise, run and jump into it.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Bob and Sue (any 2 children's names)
Sittin' in a tree
K-i-s-s-i-n-g.
First comes love
Then comes marriage.
Then comes Sue with a baby carriage.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Games
Chuck-farthing, May-pole dancing, marbles, hoop and hide, fishing, blindman's bluff, King am I, hop-skip-jump, I send a letter to my love, cricket, leap-frog, bird-nesting, and tag.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime |
Saying
You will never amount to anything, unless you turn over a new leaf.
Data entry tech comment:
Explanation: evils of wrong doings.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Fudge, fudge
tell the judge
Mama wants a newborn baby
Wrap it up in tissue paper
send it down the elevator,
Boy, girl, triplets, twins,
(repeat until jumper misses--what she misses on is what she'll have)
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Bathing beauty
thinks she's cutie
All she wears is a yellow suitie
If you jump to 29 . . .
Submitter comment:
(rest forgotten)
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Blue bells, cockle shells
eevy, ivy over
Skip rope, who can tell
eevy, ivy, over . . .
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Children's Wake-Up Rhyme
Wake up, wake up, wake up
The sun is up
The dew is on the buttercup
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Submitter comment:
Informant sung this to brothers and sisters.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Saying
Oh Johnny Doodlebug,
Come up and I'll give you a bushel of corn!
Submitter comment:
We were told that if we find a cone-shaped pit under rock ledges and said these lines, that the insect would climb out and show itself.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Old Saying
You must not sing at the table, likely to bring misfortune to you: Sing before you eat, You'll cry before you sleep.
Sing at the table,
Sing in bed,
Bugger-man will get you
When you are dead!
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |