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ROPE-JUMPING RHYME
JOHNNY OVER THE OCEAN,
JOHNNY OVER THE SEA.
JOHNNY BROKE A DISH AND BLAMED IT ON ME.
I TOLD MA.
MA TOLD PA.
JOHNNY GOT A LICKIN' AND HA, HA, HA!
(JUMP ROPE RHYME)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED
Cincinnati--A Jump Rope Verse
CIN, CIN, CIN
A NICKEL AND A PIN.
A DUTCHY AND A FATTY--
THAT'S THE WAY YOU SPELL -- CINCINNATI.
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-04-1965
BUCKINGHAM
"BUCK THE KING/AND EAT THE HAM
THAT'S THE WAY YOU SPELL BUCKINGHAM."
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-04-1965
CHICAGO
A CHICKEN IN A CAR, AND THE CAR CAN'T GO. THAT'S THE WAY TO SPELL
CHICAGO
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C70 C70.560 |
Date learned: 10-04-1965
DUCK, DUCK, GRAY DUCK
ALL CHILDREN (SQUAT POSITION) ARE IN A CIRCLE. ONE
PERSON WALKS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE CIRCLE AND TAPS
EACH ONE ON THE HEAD, SAYING, "DUCK" ON EACH ONE.
WHEN HE HITS A HEAD AND SAYS "GRAY DUCK" THAT PERSON
MUST CHASE THE TAPPER. THE TAPPER MUST GET TO THE
OTHER CHILD'S POSITION IN THE CIRCLE AND SQUAT
BEFORE HE IS CAUGHT. IF HE IS CAUGHT, HE NOW TAKES
THE PLACE OF THE ONE OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE AND THE GAME
CONTINUES.
James Callow Keyword(s): COLOR: GRAY ; CONFIGURATION: CIRCLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Racing Chasing Fighting |
Date learned: 00001964-1965
FOX AND GEESE
THIS WAS PLAYED AT ST. STANISLAUS SCHOOL IN 1926-30
IN TOLEDO, OHIO.
IN THE SNOW, A CIRCLE WAS MADE (DIAGRAM ON 5 X 8 CARD).
EVERY PLAYER STOOD AT A QUADRANT. AT A WORD YOU HAD
TO EXCHANGE PLACES. THE IDEA WAS FOR THE ONE IN THE
MIDDLE TO GET IN THE QUADRANT.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Racing Chasing Fighting |
Date learned: 10-12-1965
ON THE SATURDAY BEFORE EASTER, THE FOOD TO BE EATEN ON
EASTER SUNDAY IS PREPARED. THE TRADITIONAL MEAL IS
HAM, HOME-MADE SAUSAGE, HOME-MADE BREAD AND COFFEE
CAKE, DECORATED HARD BOILED EGGS, AN EASTER LAMB
MADE OF BUTTER, AS WELL AS AN EASTER LAMB CAKE.
A BASKET WITH A PORTION OF EACH OF THESE FOODS IS
PACKED, AND TAKEN TO THE CHURCH TO BE BLESSED BY THE
PARISH PRIEST. THIS IS CALLED "SWIECONKA."
THIS IS DONE IN THE HOPE THAT A FAMILY WILL BE BLESSED
WITH A BOUNTIFUL SUPPLY OF FOOD ALL YEAR.
| Subject headings: | 663 Holy Saturday CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday Food Drink -- Typical menus for the various meals For meal hours, see F574.84. Special or festive meals |
Date learned: 10-27-1968
IRISH NEW YEAR'S EVE
AT MIDNIGHT GUESTS WOULD FATHER, EACH HAVE A PENNY, TAKE
ONE FROM THE PERSON ON THE LEFT AND PASS YOURS TO THE
PERSON ON YOUR RIGHT. THIS MEANS YOU WILL NEVER BE
BROKE THROUGH THE YEAR.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 31 New Year's Eve BELIEF -- Use of Object BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
GERMAN CUSTOM
AT MIDNIGHT ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, SAUERKRAUT, PEAS AND
HERRING WAS SERVED ON WEDGES OF BREAD OR DRACKERS.
THEY REPRESENT GOOD HEALTH, MANY FRIENDS, AND WEALTH.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 31 New Year's Eve Food Drink -- Typical menus for the various meals For meal hours, see F574.84. Special or festive meals |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
SHIVAREE OR BELLING
CHILDREN AND GROWNUPS WOULD GATHER (FROM SEVERAL MILES
IN ALL DIRECTIONS) OUTSIDE THE HOUSE OF NEWLYWEDS ON
THEIR HONEYMOON NIGHT AND "SHIVAREE" THEM, BEATING ON
TIN PANS AND MAKING OTHER LOUD NOISES. IF THE GANG
WAS EXPECTED THAT EVENING, THE NEWLYWEDS NEVER LIT A
LAMP. THE CROWD DID NOT KNOW FOR SURE IF THEY WERE
HOME AND AFTER SOME TIME OF THIS TERRIBLE NOISE
MAKING, WOULD LEAVE. BUT IF THEY WERE SURE THEY WERE
HOME, THIS NOISE WAS KEPT UP UNTIL THE YOUNG COUPLE GOT
DRESSED AND SERVED THE GANG REFRESHMENTS. THE SHIVAREE
USUALLY TOOK PLACE ABOUT MIDNIGHT.
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage F545.1341 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A GIFT OF RED ROSES IS A SIGN OF TRUE LOVE.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Gifts |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
POLISH
WHENEVER THE PEOPLE ATTENDING A BREAKFAST OR A
RECEPTION OF A WEDDING COUPLE, TAP THE WATER GLASS
WITH A PIECE OF SILVERWARE SIGNIFIES THEIR WISH
TO SEE THE COUPLE KISS.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Glassware tapping |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
AT A POLISH WEDDING THEY USED TO SHAVE THE GROOM AND
THE BRIDE WAS GIVEN A BABY CAP (CZYPCK) AND THEN
SHE WOULD GIVE IT TO HER MOTHER AND GET A BLESSING.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Reception |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THIS DUTCH CUSTOM IS CALLED A "BELLING." IT'S
A CHIVAREE BEFORE A WEDDING INCLUDING THE CLANGING
OF BELLS, SHOOTING GUNS, BANGING PANS, ETC.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage F545.055 |
Date learned: 10-09-1965
OYSTERS WERE NEVER EATEN IN THE MONTHS THAT HAD NO
"R" IN THEM.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Consumption ; CUSTOM ; FOOD ; Letter ; Oysters ; RITUAL ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Custom CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Month Food Drink -- Meat Fish and other animal life related to water |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
GERMAN CUSTOM
THE GERMANS BURY THEIR DEAD WITH HEADS TO EAST SO WHEN
THEY ARRANGE THEIR FURNITURE (BEDS) THEY ARE THE
OPPOSITE WAY.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 09-07-1965
CANADIAN SUPERSTITION
PEOPLE IN ALASKA AND CANADA WANT TO BE BURIED WITH
THEIR HEAD TO THE NORTH. THEY ARE AFRAID OF THE
MAGNETIC REVERSAL IF THEY WERE OTHERWISE BURIED.
Where learned: OHIO ; ALASKA ; TOLEDO ; CANADA
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 09-07-1965
GERMAN CUSTOM
IT IS A GERMAN CUSTOM THAT IF A PERSON DIES, ONLY ONE
PERSON STAYED UP ALL NIGHT WITH THE CORPSE. THE
CLOCK WAS STOPPED AT DEATH TIME AND ALL MIRRORS
WERE COVERED.
Data entry tech comment: JEWISH?
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
IRISH SUPERSTITION
THE IRISH BELIEVED THAT SOMEONE MUST STAY AWAKE ALL
NIGHT WITH THE DEAD PERSON AT A WAKE. THEY STAYED
UP ALL NIGHT AND CELEBRATED BY DRINKING.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 09-17-1965
ON THE WAY TO THE CEMETERY, THE HEARSE PAUSES IN FRONT
OF THE DECEASED PERSON'S HOME AS A LAST FAREWELL TO
HIS EARTHLY DWELLING.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN