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PREGNANCY BELIEF
IF THE EXPECTANT MOTHER'S STOMACH COMES TO A POINT, SHE WILL
HAVE A BOY.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 09-22-1969
PREGNANCY BELIEF
AN EXPECTANT MOTHER MUST NEVER MAKE REMARKS ABOUT AN
UGLY PERSON, IF SHE DOES HER CHILD WILL LOOK LIKE THAT
UGLY ONE.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-12-1969
HOW TO STOP A VAMPIRE
YOU CAN STOP A VAMPIRE WITH A CRUCIFIX,
WITH GARLIC FLOWERS (THE SCENT
KILLS THEM), OR BY CATCHING THEM OUTSIDE THEIR GRAVE IN THE DAYTIME.
ANY VAMPIRE THAT GOES OUTSIDE HIS GRAVE IN THE DAYTIME
DESERVES TO BE KILLED ANYWAY, IF HE'S STUPID ENOUGH TO
DO THAT.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Werewolf Vampire |
Date learned: 11-19-1968
LEGEND
WEREWOLVES COME OUT WHEN THERE IS A FULL MOON.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Lycan ; SUPERSTITION ; Undead ; Werewolf
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Werewolf Vampire |
Date learned: 03-15-1968
GHOST STORY
IN WHISKEY HOLLOW, NEW YORK A CERTAIN MAN WAS ARRESTED AND
PLACED IN THE LOCAL JAIL. (REASON UNKNOWN.) HE WAS LEFT THERE
AND EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT HIM. HE FINALLY DIED THERE. SOON AFTER
PEOPLE BEGAN TO SEE HIS GHOST CALLING TO BE LET OUT. EVEN TODAY
PARENTS WARN THEIR CHILDREN TO BEWARE THE GHOST OF WHISKEY HOLLOW.
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST ; Legend ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-14-1970
BELIEF CONCERNING DEATH
UKRANIANS BELIEVE THAT A PERSONS SPIRIT STAYS ON EARTH FOR
NINE DAYS AFTER DEATH. IT THEN TAKES THE SPIRIT FORTY DAYS TO GET TO
HEAVEN. IT IS THOUGHT THAT THIS BELIEF REPRESENTS
THE FORTY DAYS AFTER CHRIST'S DEATH, BEFORE HE AROSE.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Christ ; DEATH ; NUMBER ; RELIGION ; SYMBOLISM ; UKRAINIAN
| Subject headings: | 686 Ninths / Nine BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Number P686.1.40 |
Date learned: 03-26-1972
TO KEEP GHOSTS AWAY
TO KEEP YOURSELF FREE FROM GHOSTS PEE IN A CIRCLE AND STAND
IN THE CENTER. THE GHOST WILL NOT COME INSIDE THE CIRCLE
AFTER YOU.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST ; SUPERSTITION ; SYMBOL ; URINATE ; Ward
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-05-1971
PIPAL TREE
THE PIPAL TREE IS A TREE FOUND IN INDIA WHICH THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IS
A TREE INFESTED WITH GHOSTS.
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; GHOST ; GHOSTS ; India ; Pipal ; SUPERSTITION ; Tree
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 03-05-1971
A LATE BATH
THIS IS TOLD TO YOUNG CHILDREN: IF YOU DON'T TAKE YOUR
BATH EARLY YOU WILL SEE THE WATER MOVING AROUND AS A GHOST IS
IN THE TUB.
Submitter comment:
TOLD BY GRANDMOTHER
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; FUNCTION ; GHOST ; KIDS ; THREAT ; WATER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
GHOST LEGEND
THERE PERSISTS A LEGEND IN MACEDONIA, THAT IF A
DECEASED WILL APPEAR TO SOME MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
PERSON DIES THEN WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THE DEATH THE GHOST OF THE
Submitter comment:
JAMES LEARNED THIS FROM HIS PARENTS.
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST ; Legend ; Lore ; Macedonia ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-10-1967
LEGEND
EVERY HALLOWEEN NIGHT THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN GOES OUT LOOKING
FOR HIS HEAD.
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST ; Headless ; Horseman ; Legend ; Scary ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F103 BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-15-1968
PINCH OF THE DEAD
WHEN YOU FIND A BLACK AND BLUE MARK ON YOUR BODY AND
YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM, IT MEANS THAT SOMEONE
WHO IS CLOSE TO YOU, AND THAT DIED, AND THAT NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS
HAS COME BACK AND WANTS TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF THIS NEED.
THEREFORE, HE PINCHES YOU AND LEAVES A BLACK AND BLUE MARK AS A
SYMBOL OR SIGN OF HIS NEED.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Dead ; Haunt ; Pinch ; SUPERSTITION ; Undead
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 03-31-1970
BOOGIEMAN BELIEF
WHEN I WAS A KID MY PARENTS USED TO TELL ME THAT OLD UNCLE
GEORGE WAS THIS GHOST THAT LIVED IN THE BASEMENT AND
THAT HE WOULD COME UP AT NIGHT AND EAT ME ALIVE IF I WAS BAD.
(I USED TO HAVE A PICTURE IN MY MIND
OF EXACTLY WHAT UNCLE GEORGE LOOKED
LIKE. HE WAS EXTREMELY OLD AND DUMB, LIKE JETHRO.)
Submitter comment:
JETHRO IS A MUSCLE BOUND HILLBILLY OF A SUCCESSFUL TV SHOW CALLED
THE "BEVERLY HILLBILLIES".
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Boogieman ; CHILDREN ; FUNCTION ; Legend ; Scare ; SUPERSTITION ; Tale ; THREAT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-02-1970
SUPERSTITION
NEVER TRY TO GET IN TOUCH WITH SPIRITS BECAUSE THEY WILL
COME BACK AND TRY TO GET YOU TO DO WHAT THEY COULDN'T GET YOU
TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
WARDING OFF GHOSTS
GHOSTS DON'T COME IN TENS. WHENEVER YOU SEE ONE, SAY:
"TEN, TEN, THE BIBLE TEN," AND THEY WILL GO AWAY.
Submitter comment:
INFORMER DOESN'T BELIEVE IN THIS STRONGLY.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): BIBLE ; GHOST ; Haunt ; RELIGION ; Repel ; SUPERSTITION ; Ward Off
| Subject headings: | 686 First / Once / One / Newness BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-26-1972
SPIRTIUAL BELIEF
EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN SPIRIT WHO WILL TALK TO HIM THROUGH
THE OUIJA BOARD.
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Communicate ; GAME ; GHOST ; Haunt ; Ouija ; SPIRIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
BRUISES
IF YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND YOU ARE ALL COVERED WITH
BRUISES, IT MEANS A DEAD PERSON HAS TOUCHED YOU IN THE NIGHT.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Bruises ; Dead ; DEATH ; GHOST ; SLEEP ; Sleeping ; Touch
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 03-31-1968
COLLEGE BELIEF
IF A VIRGIN EVER WALKS PAST THE BEAUMONT TOWERS AT
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, THE TOWER WILL CRUMBLE.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Crumble ; Destroy ; Legend ; SUPERSTITION ; Tower ; Urban Legend ; Virgin
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 01-24-1972
GOING ON A DATE? WHAT BOY SHALL I TAKE? (RED HOT PEPPER, JOHN, JOE,
PETE, FRED). GOING ON A DATE? WHAT COLOR DRESS SHALL I WEAR? (RED HOT
PEPPER, RED, YELLOW, ETC.)
GOING ON A DATE? WHAT KIND OF FLOWERS SHALL
I TAKE? (RED HOT PEPPERS, ROSES, PANSIES, ETC.) GOING ON A DATE? WHAT
COLOR SHOES? (SAME BUSINESS)
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT COULDN'T REMEMBER WHERE SHE LEARNED THIS BUT
IT WAS WHEN SHE WAS IN GRADE SCHOOL.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; FOLEY HALL
Keyword(s): SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 03-30-1967
FREDERICH THE GREAT
FREDERICH THE GREAT IS BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN A MOUNTAIN IN
GERMANY, GUARDED BY RAVENS. IF GREAT NATIONAL TROUBLE ARISES, THE
RAVENS WILL WAKE HIM UP AND HE WILL SAVE GERMANY.
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): FREDERICK ; Germany ; Guard ; MOUNTAIN ; Ravens
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Secular hero BELIEF -- Bird |
Date learned: 11-00-1968