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WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND BLACK AND WHITE AND BLACK AND WHITE?
A NUN FALLING DOWN STAIRS
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
WHAT'S THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE SIXTY-NINE?
EIGHT SOMETHING?
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
WHAT'S HARDER THAN GETTING A PREGNANT ELEPHANT IN A
VOLKSWAGON?
GETTING AN ELEPHANT PREGNANT IN A VOLKSWAGON.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
WHAT IS PURPLE AND CONQUERED THE WORLD?
ALEXANDER THE GRAPE
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
WHAT'S BIG AND PURPLE AND STOMPS OUT FOREST FIRES?
SMOKEY THE GRAPE
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
IF TEN CROWS ARE SITTING ON A FENCE AND YOU SHOOT ONE, HOW
MANY ARE LEFT?
ONE, BECAUSE THE OTHER NINE YOU DIDN'T SHOOT FLEW AWAY.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
WHAT DO YOU CALL A TWO-STORY OUTHOUSE?
BIG JOHN
AT THIS TIME THERE WAS A SONG ON THE RADIO ABOUT A
COALMINER NAMED BIG JOHN.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
KNOCK, KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?
BOO.
BOO WHO?
WHAT ARE YOU CRYING FOR?
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
WHEN TWO PEOPLE SAY A WORD AT THE SAME TIME, THEY MAY CLASP
HANDS AND PRESS THEIR THUMBS TOGETHER. AS THEY DO THIS, THEY
MAKE A WISH AND PRONOUNCE "THUMBS". IF THEY DO NOT SPEAK
UNTIL SPOKEN TO, THE WISH WILL COME TRUE.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001968 (ASSUMED)
IN THE TOWN THAT MY PARENTS CAME FROM IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, THE
CHURCH WAS HAUNTED AND PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT NO ONE COULD GO IN THERE
AFTER SUNSET. IF YOU WERE PASSING BY IN THE EVENING, YOU COULD
HEAR ALL SORTS OF STRANGE NOISES AND MOANINGS, EVEN SCREAMS.
ONE WOMAN SAID THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE THE STORIES AND THAT SHE
MEANT TO GO IN THERE ONE EVENING AND SEE FOR HERSELF. SHE DID
GO IN THERE AFTER MIDNIGHT AND WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN. THE NEXT
MORNING ALL OF HER CLOTHING WAS FOUND ON THE FLOOR OF THE CHURCH.
Where learned: OHIO ; CLEVELAND ; TOLD IN
Keyword(s): GHOST ; HAUNTED CHURCH
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 09-10-1972
IF YOU SEE A HAYWAGON LOADED WITH HAY AND MAKE A WISH, IT WILL
COME TRUE, BUT YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THE HAYWAGON AGAIN AFTER
WISHING.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001968 (ASSUMED)
A PINK SUNSET MEANS GOOD WEATHER ON THE FOLLOWING DAY. A
YELLOW SUNSET MEANS BAD WEATHER AND RAIN ON THE FOLLOWING
DAY.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001968 (ASSUMED)
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS THE LEAVES ON TREES SO THAT YOU CAN SEE
THE UNDER SIDES
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001968 (ASSUMED)
WHEN DOGS EAT GRASS, IT MEANS RAIN.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001968 (ASSUMED)
THE LENGTH OF THE ORANGE OR MIDDLE BAND ON A "WOOLYBEAR"
CATERPILLAR CORRESPONDS TO THE LENGTH OF THE COMING WINTER
IN RELATION TO THE TWO BLACK OR OUTSIDE BANDS WHICH CORRESPOND
TO SPRING AND FALL.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
ALWAYS HOLD YOUR BREATH WHEN PASSING BY OR THROUGH A
CEMETERY SO THAT THE SPIRITS THERE CAN'T GET IN YOU.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00-00-1954
RAIN BEFORE SEVEN STOPS BEFORE ELEVEN.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00001968 (ASSUMED)
LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES THE SAME PLACE TWICE.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
POPPING FINGER KNUCKLES WILL MAKE THEM BIGGER.
Where learned: OHIO ; FAIRMOUNT RD ; CHAGRIN FALLS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
HALLOWEEN PRANK
WE WOULD SHELL ALL FALL THE EARS OFF CORN AND THROW
THEM AGAINST THE WINDOWS. IT WAS A BIG THING FOR US
AT HALLOWEEN.
MR. YOUNT ADDED THAT THEY ALSO PUT CABBAGE STALKS ON
PORCHES, TOO.
Submitter comment: PRACTICES IN GLOUCESTER AND HOLLISTER, OHIO.
Where learned: OHIO ; GLOUCESTER ; HOLLISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity Song: Game, Pastime, Sport |
Date learned: 05-11-1965