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EYELASH SUPERSTITION
IF AN EYELASH COMES OUT, PUT IT ON THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD AND MAKE A WISH. IF THE EYELASH STICKS TO THE FINGER, THE WISH WILL NOT COME TRUE. IF IT STICKS TO THE HAIR, THE WISH WILL COME TRUE.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Legend |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
SNAPPING TURTLE
A SNAPPING TURTLE, IF IT BITES, WON'T TURN LOOSE UNTIL IT
THUNDERS.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
WEDDING GOWN
A HAIR SEWN INTO A WEDDING GOWN BY AN ENEMY OF THE BRIDE IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
HEM SUPERSTITION
IF YOUR HEM IS TURNED UP, KISS IT AND MAKE A WISH AND IT
WILL COME TRUE.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Legend |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
Old Maid
IF YOU TAKE THE LAST SERVING OF ANYTHING, YOU WILL BE AN OLD MAID.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Legend |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
OLD MAID
IF SOMEONE SWEEPS DIRECTLY UNDER YOUR FEET, YOU WILL BE AN OLD MAID.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Legend |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
MENSTRUATION STORY
IF A WOMAN KISSES A MAN WHILE SHE IS MENSTRUATING, SHE WILL BEAR AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
MENSTRUATION STORY
IF A WOMAN TAKES A DROP OF HER MENSTRUAL BLOOD AND PUTS IT IN A MAN'S DRINK, HE WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH HER.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
MENSTRUATION STORY
A MENSTRUATING WOMAN SHOULDN'T CHURN, BECAUSE BUTTER WON'T MAKE.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
MENSTRUATION STORY
A MENSTRUATING WOMAN CAN'T CAN FOOD, AS IT WILL RUIN.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
MENSTRUATION STORY
A MENSTRUATING WOMAN SHOULDN'T GET A PERMANENT IN HER HAIR DURING THIS TIME, AS IT WON'T "TAKE."
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
HE'S A SIMPLE TOOL.
Submitter comment:
THIS EXPRESSION IS USED BY MASONS AND BRICKLAYERS TO
DESCRIBE A PERSON THAT CAN'T DO MANY COMPLICATED THINGS.
IT REFERS TO A CROW BAR OR A HAMMER, OR ANOTHER SIMPLE
TOOL THAT ANYONE CAN USE, THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE MUCH
SKILL TO USE. THE INFORMANT SAID THAT HE HAS HEARD THIS
FROM MASONS AND BRICKLAYERS IN ALABAMA, GEORGIA, AND
TENNESSEE DURING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS (1950S-1970S).
Where learned: ALABAMA ; GEORGIA ; TENNESSEE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
SNAKES
IF A SNAKE TURNS HIS STOMACH UP TO THE SKY, THAT MEANS IT WILL
RAIN.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 07-22-1968
Never put old clothes on a new born baby, especially
firstborn -- was considered bad luck.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; Greenville
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1920
PROVERB
IT'S HOT AS HELL WITH THE LID OFF.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; GAINESVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 08-05-1968
DURING MY CHILDHOOD, I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER (MRS. M. C. BROWN
SR., GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA) GETTING VERY UPSET WHEN ANYONE WOULD
PUT A HAT ON ONE OF HER BEDS. SHE FELT THAT THIS WAS VERY
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; GAINESVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Furniture (bed, table, chair, etc.) BELIEF -- Bad luck Clothing (dress, hat, shoes, suit, etc.) |
Date learned: 08-01-1968
I REMEMBER THAT WHEN I WAS A CHILD AND WOULD WALK DOWN THE
STREET WITH MY GRANDMOTHER, MRS. M. C. BROWN, SR., GAINESVILLE,
GEORGIA, SHE WOULD INSIST THAT WE WALK IN STEP. SHE SAID WE
WOULD HAVE GOOD LUCK IF WE DID.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; GAINESVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Good luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
DON'T THANK ANYBODY WHEN THEY GIVE YOU A PLANT FOR YOUR
GARDEN; IT'S BAD LUCK; THE PLANT WON'T GROW.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; GAINESVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: 07-00-1968
BLOOD ON THE RISERS
HE WAS JUST A ROOKIE TROOPER,
AND HE SURELY SHOOK WITH FRIGHT.
HE CHECKED OFF HIS EQUIPMENT,
AND MADE SURE HIS PACK WAS TIGHT.
HE HAD TO SIT AND LISTEN TO THOSE
AWFUL ENGINES ROAR.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS) GORY, GORY WHAT A HELLUVA WAY TO DIE.
GORY, GORY WHAT A HELLUVA WAY TO DIE.
GORY, GORY WHAT A HELLUVA WAY TO DIE.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
IS EVERYBODY HAPPY,
CRIED THE SERGEANT LOOKING UP?
OUR HERO FEEBLY ANSWERED, YES,
AND THEN THEY STOOD HIM UP.
HE JUMPED INTO THE ICY BLAST,
HIS STATIC LINE UNHOOKED.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS) MM
HE COUNTED LOUD, HE COUNTED LONG,
HE WAITED FOR THE SHOCK.
HE FELT THE WIND, HE FELT THE COLD,
HE FELT THE AWFUL DROP.
HE JERKED THE CORD, THE SILK SPILLED OUT,
AND WRAPPED AROUND HIS LEGS.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS) MM
THE RISERS SWUNG AROUND HIS NECK,
CONNECTORS CRACKED HIS DOME.
SUSPENSION LINES WERE TIED IN KNOTS,
AROUND HIS SKINNY BONES.
HIS CANOPY BECAME HIS SHROUD,
AND HE HURLED INTO THE EARTH.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS) MM
THE DAYS HE LIVED AND LOVED AND LAUGHED,
KEPT RUNNING THROUGH HIS MIND.
HE THOUGHT ABOUT THE GIRLS BACK HOME,
THE ONES HE LEFT BEHIND.
HE THOUGHT ABOUT THE MEDICS,
AND HE WONDERED WHAT THEY'D FIND.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS) MM
THE AMBULANCE WAS ON THE SPOT.
THE JEEPS WERE RUNNING WILD.
THE MEDICS JUMPED AND SCREAMED WITH GLEE,
AND ROLLED THEIR SLEEVES AND SMILED.
FOR IT HAD BEEN A WEEK OR SO
SINCE LAST A CHUTE HAD FAILED.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS) MM
HE HIT THE GROUND, THE SOUND WAS SPLAT.
HIS BLOOD WENT SPURTING HIGH.
HIS COMRADES THEN WERE HEARD TO SAY,
WHAT A HELLUVA WAY TO DIE.
HE LAY THERE ROLLING TO AND FRO,
IN THE WELTER OF HIS GORE.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS) MM
THERE WAS BLOOD UPON THE RISERS.
THERE WAS BRAIN UPON THE CHUTE.
INTESTINES WERE A'DANGLIN' FROM
THIS PARATROOPER'S BOOTS.
THEY PICKED HIM UP STILL IN THE CHUTE,
AND POURED HIM FROM HIS BOOTS.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE. MM
(CHORUS)
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A MARCHING CADENCE SUNG TO THE TUNE
OF "BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC." UNITED
STATES ARMY AIRBORNE SCHOOL IS A THREE-WEEK
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION AT FORT BENNING,
GEORGIA. THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF INSTRUCTION
CONSIST OF GROUND AND TOWER TRAINING. THE
THIRD WEEK CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF SUCCESSFULLY
COMPLETING FIVE PARACHUTE JUMPS FROM AN AIRCRAFT
IN FLIGHT. AFTER SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF
GROUND AND TOWER TRAINING, BUT PRIOR TO JUMP
WEEK, "BLOOD ON THE RISERS" RECORDINGS ARE
PLAYED ON LOUDSPEAKERS THROUGHOUT THE STUDENT
COMPANY AREA AS A FORM OF GOOD-NATURED INTIMIDATION
BY THE CADRE.
"RISERS" REFERS TO HEAVY NYLON STRAPS WHICH
EXTEND FROM THE PARACHUTE HARNESS TO THE SUSPENSION
LINES. "STATIC LINE" IS A CORD WHICH IS SNAPPED
TO A WIRE RUNNING THE LENGTH OF THE INTERIOR OF
THE AIRCRAFT, AND WHICH OPENS THE CHUTE
AUTOMATICALLY AS THE JUMPER EXITS THE AIRCRAFT.
THE "COUNT" REFERS TO THE JUMPER'S SILENTLY
COUNTING TO FOUR AND AWAITING THE OPENING SHOCK
OF THE PARACHUTE, LETTING HIM KNOW THAT THE
PARACHUTE HAS DEPLOYED SAFELY. THE "CONNECTORS"
ARE HEAVY ALUMINUM CLIPS WHICH ATTACH THE RISERS
SECURELY TO THE PARACHUTE HARNESS AT CHEST LEVEL.
"SUSPENSION LINES" ARE THE SEVERAL NARROW NYLON
CORDS WHICH RUN FROM THE RISERS TO THE EDGE OF
THE PARACHUTE CANOPY.
THE SONG IS SUNG BY THE STUDENT COMPANY
AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY AS THE PARACHUTIST
WINGS ARE PINNED ON AFTER THE FIFTH QUALIFYING
JUMP.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; FORT BENNING
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION (STANZA 3). ; MEDIAL ITERATION (STANZA 3).
June Bugs
As a child, we played a game of catching bugs and tieing a
string to their leg and letting them fly in a circle around us.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; ATHENS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 01001952 CA