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IF YOU GO TO BED AND LAUGH AFTER YOU'RE IN BED, YOU'LL GET
UP CRYING.
Where learned: HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Measure of time Sleeping |
Date learned: 03-23-1969
IF YOU DROP A FORK A WOMAN IS COMING, A KNIFE FOR A MAN, AND
SPOON MEANS BOTH.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Silverware
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 03-23-1969
DON'T HAVE YOUR PICTURE MADE WITH AN ANIMAL OR ONE OF YOU
WILL DIE WITHIN A YEAR.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Measure of time Year BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 03-23-1969
YOU SHOULD PLANT POTATOES ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY FOR A
GOOD CROP.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- March 17 Feast of St. Patrick BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 03-25-1969
PUT ST. JOHN'S WORK (WORT?) IN (A) PILLOW TO FORETELL ONE'S
FUTURE IN DREAMS.
Where learned: HOME ; VIRGINIA, ASSUMED ; NORTH GARDEN
Keyword(s): PLANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Dreams BELIEF -- Use of Object Plant |
Date learned: 03-29-1969
A FRIDAY NIGHT DREAM TOLD BEFORE BREAKFAST ON SATURDAY WILL
COME TRUE.
Where learned: HOME ; VIRGINIA, ASSUMED ; NORTH GARDEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Dreams |
Date learned: 03-23-1969
IF YOU DREAM OF FIRE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MAD. IF YOU DREAM
OF A BIRTH, IT IS A SIGN OF DEATH.
Where learned: HOME ; VIRGINIA, ASSUMED ; NORTH GARDEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Dreams BELIEF -- Dreams Foretelling a death |
Date learned: 03-23-1969
PICKING UP TOADS WILL GIVE YOU WARTS.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Specific distinguishing characteristic Dimple, wart, mole, scar, freckle, birthmark, strawberry mark, bruise, spot (on any part of body) BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 08-10-1968
TO KEEP FROM CATCHING A COLD, WEAR A STONE AROUND YOUR NECK.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 08-10-1968
IF GIVING A BUTCHER KNIFE TO A BRIDE-TO-BE, ALWAYS LAY IT DOWN
AND LET HER PICK IT UP. THE REASON IS THAT IF YOU HAND IT TO
HER, IT WILL CUT HER LOVE IN HALF.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Service Table furnishing and decoration Implement to handle food BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 08-10-1968
IT IS BAD LUCK FOR THE BRIDE-TO-BE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
REHEARSAL OF HER WEDDING.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Wedding rehearsal BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.545 |
Date learned: 08-08-1968
OLD SAUN JUAN
OLD SAUN JUAN IS A FORT THAT IS SURROUNDED BY HIGH WALLS
TO PROTECT THE PUERTO RICANS FROM ATTACK
WHEN THEY WERE AT WAR, THE MAN WHO STOOD LOOK-OUT IN THE
TOWER SAW THE GHOSTLY FIGURE OF A WOMAN. EVERY TIME
THEY WERE GOING TO BE ATTACKED THE WOMAN WOULD APPEAR
AND WARN THEM OF THE INVADERS. THE NAME OF THE WOMAN
WAS GARRITA.
Submitter comment: SHE SAID THAT THIS FOLKTALE WENT AROUND ALL OF THE VILLAGES.
Where learned: HOME ; PUERTO RICO
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00001960'S ; 11-00-1987
PROVERBIAL
...STRAIGHT AS A DIE AND STIFF AS A RAMROD.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; TRAVERSE CITY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 02-21-1970
VOWS MADE IN STORMS ARE FORGOTTEN IN CALMS.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 12-25-1969
LUCK BELIEF
IF YOU SEE THE FIRST STAR OUT AT NIGHT, YOU WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: MY FATHER WAS TOLD THIS BY HIS MOTHER WHEN HE WAS A BOY.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON ; TOLD BY ; FATHER
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 02-18-1970
BELIEF
IF YOU HAVE A LARGE "V" SHAPED LINE IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND,
IT IS CALLED YPUR LIFE LINE
AND YOU WILL LIVE TO AN OLD AGE.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDMOTHER IS ALWAYS LOOKING AT OUR PALMS
THIS IS SOMETHING SHE HAS HEARD OF
AND BELIEVED IN SINCE SHE WAS A CHILD IN ENGLAND.
Where learned: HOME ; Grandmother ; TOLD BY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-24-1970
BIRD IN THE HOUSE SUPERSTITION
IF A BIRD FLIES INTO YOUR HOUSE, SOMEONE WILL DIE IN THE NEAR FUTURE
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BORN IN ENGLAND, AND THIS SUPERSTITION WAS REALLY
BELIEVED WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD.
Where learned: HOME ; Grandmother ; TOLD BY
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 02-26-1970
CUSTOM
KOSHER FOOD IS FOOD THAT HAS BEEN BLESSED
BY THE RABBI TO MAKE IT PURE.
Submitter comment: THIS JEWISH CUSTOM IS STILL PRACTICED TODAY.
Where learned: HOME ; UNCLE ; ; TOLD AT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 02-02-1970
BELIEF-SUPERSTITION
INFORMANT WOULD NEVER SEAT 13 PEOPLE
TOGETHER AT ONE TABLE FOR A MEAL, AS IT IS EXTREMELY
MISFORTUNATE AND BRINGS BAD LUCK. ONCE AS A CHILD
THERE WERE 13 AT A THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER AT HER HOUSE
AND BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HER UNCLE GREGORY, ONE OF THOSE
AT THE TABLE, DIED. INFORMANT FIRMLY ADHERES TO THE
BELIEF THAT 13 AT THE DINNER TABLE IS A BAD LUCK OMEN.
Where learned: HOME ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described |
MIRACLE IN ROME
IN A CATHEDRAL IN ROME THERE WAS A PRIEST, WHO WAS NOT A FIRM
BELIEVER SAYING MASS. WHEN HE SPLIT THE HOST SOME BLOOD SPILLED
FROM IT ON TO THE CORPOREAL ON THE ALTAR. EVERY YEAR ON GOOD FRIDAY
THE BLOOD LIQUIFIES.
Where learned: HOME ; DETROIT, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 11-23-1968