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PIEROGI
PIEROGI-A NEEDLE DOUGH IN THE FORM OF A FILLED DUMPLING. THE
VARIOUS FILLINGS ARE COTTAGE CHEESE, SAUERKRAUT, SWEET-SOUR CABBAGE,
MASHED POTATOES OR PLUMS.
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Kind of Food and Its Preparation |
Date learned: 10-27-1968
CZARNINA
POLISH DISH OF DUCK SOUP. MADE WITH THE BLOOD OF THE DUCK, PRUNES
RAISINS, APPLE OR PEAR, AND SEASONINGS - MAINLY MARJORAM. A POTATO
NOODLE, MORE LIKE DUMPLINGS, ARE TO BE EATEN WITH IT. THIS SOUP IS
A SWEET-SOUR SOUP, SINCE THE BLOOD IS MIXED WITH VINEGAR, AS IT IS
DRAINED FROM THE DUCK.
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Food Food Drink -- Mixed preparation in liquid |
Date learned: 09-30-1968
CLUMPS OF THREE
SUPERSTITION HAS IT THAT BAD LUCK OR GOOD FORTUNE, GOOD NEWS OR BAD
NEWS COMES IN SETS OF THREE. WHEN ONE HEARS OF TWO
CONSECUTIVE SITUATIONS A THIRD WILL MOST CERTAINLY APPEAR.
Submitter comment: NON-ETHNIC
Keyword(s): THREE
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Good luck BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 09-30-1968
DEATH
DEATH COMES IN THREES.
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
IF THIRTEEN ARE AT THE TABLE, ONE WILL DIE BEFORE THE YEAR HAS
ENDED
I HAD ALWAYS HEARD THIS AS A CHILD, AND READ IN AN ETIQUETTE BOOK
JUST RECENTLY THAT ANY CONSIDERATE HOSTESS WOULD AVOID HAVING 13 AT
THE TABLE TO ELIMINATE ANY UNEASINESS AMONGST HER GUESTS.
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
LEGEND OF SEAWEED SALLY AT CAMP BIG SILVER
BOY'S CLUB SUMMER CAMP AT PINCKNEY, MICHIGAN
HAD IT THAT ACROSS THE LAKE
LIVED SEAWEED SALLY, A GHOST. THE BOYS WERE WARNED TO WATCH FOR
HER BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO KIDNAP LITTLE BOYS.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Keyword(s): camp ; GHOST ; Haunt ; Legend ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
GIRL WHISTLING
IN GRANDMOTHER'S TIME THE GIRLS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO WHISTLE. SHE
SAID IT MADE THE BLESSED VIRGIN CRY.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Keyword(s): BLESSED VIRGIN ; Cry ; Female ; Feminine ; Girls ; Ladylike ; Whistle ; Whistling
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
LEGEND OF THE MAD MAN.
IN MY CHILDHOOD, I SPENT TWO WEEKS AT THE BOYS' CLUB CAMP
FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS. EVERY STAY WAS OCCASIONED BY THE
RUMOR THAT IT WAS NOT SAFE TO WALK IN CAMP ALONE AT NIGHT
BECAUSE A MAN HAD ESCAPED FROM A NEARBY MENTAL
INSTITUTION OR JAIL (IT VARIED) AND
THE CONVICT DID NOT LIKE LITTLE BOYS.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Keyword(s): Escaped ; Institution ; JAIL ; Legend ; Mad Man ; Mental Institution ; Urban Legend
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NEW WALLET
IF YOU GIVE A PURSE OR WALLET TO SOMEONE, PUT A PENNY
IN IT TO ASSURE THE RECEIVER NEVER GOES BROKE.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
FIRST STAR
MAKE A WISH ON THE FIRST STAR THAT YOU SEE AT NIGHT.
STAR BRIGHT, STAR LIGHT, THE FIRST STAR I SEE TONIGHT
I WISH IT MAY, I WISH IT MIGHT, I WISH MY WISH COMES TRUE TONIGHT.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1 BELIEF -- Star BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Use of Object P860.642 |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
COUGH
COUGH REMEDY: BAKE A LEMON UNTIL SOFT AND BEFORE IT BURSTS MIX PULP
WITH HONEY.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
WORMS
IF YOU EAT TOO MUCH SUGAR YOU WILL GET WORMS.
Keyword(s): CAUSE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
VERSE WITHOUT MUSIC "LUCY"
LUCY MET THE TRAIN
THE TRAIN MET LUCY
THE TRACK WAS JUICY
THE JUICE WAS LUCY
Keyword(s): CHIASMUS ; EUPHEMISM ; FEMININE RHYME ; FINAL ITERATION ; INITIAL ITERATION ; RHYME: ABBC
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
WELSH SUPERSTITION
THE WELSH BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST PERSON TO COME INTO THE HOUSE
RIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT ON NEW YEAR'S EVE TELLS OR PREDICTS THE LUCK
THE HOUSEHOLD WILL HAVE. IF A MAN COMES IN, THE HOUSE WILL HAVE
GOOD LUCK. A WOMAN MEANS BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
THE REASON HE KNOWS OF THIS CUSTOM IS BECAUSE A LADY ASKS HIM TO
WALK INTO HER HOUSE EVERY YEAR AT MIDNIGHT SO THAT SHE WILL HAVE
GOOD LUCK.
Keyword(s): ANTIFEMINISM ; SEXISM
CHRISTMAS CUSTOM
MY DAD SAID WHEN HE WAS YOUNG HE HAD TO DO
KNEEL DOWN AND SAY A PRAYER BEFORE THEY WOULD GET A GIFT.
DOWN AND SAY A PRAYER BEFORE THEY GOT A GIFT. IF
YOU DIDN'T SAY A PRAYER YOU GOT STRAPPED BY HIS
BELT ACROSS THE REAR.
Submitter comment: 1930'S
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Santa Claus |
Date learned: 10-12-1965
FESTIVAL
WHEN SANTA CAME AT CHRISTMAS THEY WERE MADE TO
KNELL DOWN AND SAY A PRAYER BEFORE THEY WOULD GET A GIFT.
IF YOU DIDN'T SAY A PRAYER YOU WOULD GET STRAPPED BY HIS BELT.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Santa Claus |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR.
OPTATKE (CHRISTMAS WAFER) [OPLATKI]
A POLISH CHRISTMAS TRADITION. ON THE VIGIL OF CHRISTMAS AT DINNER
THAT EVENING, THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD DISTRIBUTES BREAD-LIKE WAFERS
(OPTATKE) [OPLATKI], MADE BY SISTERS OF THE CHURCH. THEY ARE MADE LIKE THE
COMMUNION WAFER, AND BLESSED BY THE PRIEST. EACH MEMBER OF THE
FAMILY RECEIVES ONE, AND THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD SAYS A PRAYER
AND ASKS FOR GOD'S BLESSING. HE BREAKS HIS WAFER WITH EACH MEMBER,
AND THEY IN TURN BREAK IT WITH EACH MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share same surname.
Keyword(s): FOOD CUSTOM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve F122.82 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Church |
Date learned: 09-30-1968
CHRISTMAS CUSTOM
IT IS A POLISH CHRISTMAS CUSTOM TO WRITE KMB OVER THE DOORWAY IN YOUR
HOUSE UNTIL AFTER THE THREE KINGS' DAY. A SPECIAL CHALK WAS BLESSED
ON THE FEAST OF THE THREE KINGS AND THEN USED TO PRINT KMB AND THE
YEAR ABOVE EACH DOORWAY IN THE HOUSE.
Keyword(s): EPIPHANY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 6 Twelfth Day Epiphany |
Date learned: 10-12-1965
SILVERWARE
IF YOU DROP SILVERWARE PEOPLE WILL COME VISIT YOU.
I DROPPED A WHOLE SET OF SILVERWARE AND WE HAD
A LARGE GROUP OF UNEXPECTED VISITORS COME.
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
PROVERB
FEW OF US CAN STAND PROSPERITY... ANOTHER MAN,S, I MEAN.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 12-00-1965