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AFTER USING SALT, YOU SHOULD THROW A PINCH OF IT
OVER YOUR LEFT SHOULDER TO INSURE GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS FROM A FRIEND.
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Upper body, arms, neck BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Good luck Activities |
Date learned: 12-04-1967
IF YOU BREAK A MIRROR, SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK WILL
COME YOUR WAY.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS LONG AGO.
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several BELIEF -- Bad luck Mirror |
Date learned: 12-04-1967
BAD LUCK WILL COME TO A PERSON WHO WALKS UNDER
A LADDER.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS AS A CHILD.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Angular forms BELIEF -- Bad luck Ladder (angles, pyramid, etc.) |
Date learned: 11-28-1967
BAD LUCK WILL COME TO ONE WHO OPENS AN
UMBRELLA IN A HOUSE.
Submitter comment:
HEARD THIS FROM A FRIEND AFTER OPENING THE
UMBRELLA IN HIS HOUSE IN 1963.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Umbrella |
Date learned: 10-00-1963
BAD LUCK WILL COME TO ONE WHO HAS A BLACK CAT
CROSS HIS PATH.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS WHEN I WAS A CHILD.
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 11-27-1967
IF A SINGLE GIRL TAKES A TWIG FROM A CHERRY TREE
DURING THE WINTER TIME AND BRINGS IT IN THE HOUSE AND
PUTS IT IN A GLASS OF WATER TO BLOOM, SHE WILL KNOW
IF SHE WILL MARRY WITHIN A YEAR. IF THE TWIG GIVES
A BLOSSOM SHE WILL, IF IT DOESN'T, SHE WON'T.
| Subject headings: | 862 Use of object for determining future spouse |
Date learned: 02-11-1972
IF YOU KILL A SPIDER IT WILL RAIN.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS FROM A FRIEND LONG AGO.
Date learned: 12-01-1967
IF AT NIGHT THE MOON HAS A YELLOW RING AROUND IT,
IT WILL RAIN THE NEXT DAY.
Submitter comment: I HEARD THIS FROM MY MOTHER WHEN AT THE AGE OF 10.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Observation of galactic or celestial bodies |
Date learned: 11-07-1967
A ROLLING STONE CATCHES NO MOSS.
Submitter comment: HEARD THIS IN GRADE SCHOOL.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-04-1967
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SLEEPING IN CHURCH
IF YOU FALL ASLEEP IN CHURCH, AN USHER WILL COME AND TICKLE
YOUR NOSE TO WAKE YOU.
Submitter comment:
DONE TO INFORMANT IN YOUNGER DAYS.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Nose BELIEF -- Church |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SLEEPING IN CHURCH
IF YOU FALL ASLEEP IN CHURCH, AN USHER WILL COME AND TICKLE
YOUR NOSE TO WAKE YOU.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THIS WAS DONE TO HIM IN HIS YOUNGER DAYS.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant told to collector, his son, during childhood.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; OHIO ; CANTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Nose BELIEF -- Church |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN