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IN THE PHILIPPINES, IF A MAN STUMBLES ON HIS WAY TO
A COCK FIGHT, IT IS A BAD OMEN. HE MAY JUST AS
WELL TURN BACK AND GO HOME, FOR HE WILL SURELY LOSE
THE COCK FIGHT.
Submitter comment: FROM HIS FATHER.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 08-09-1964
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE EVEN THOUGH ONE'S A SHEEPSHEAD.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID IT WAS A POPULAR EXPRESSION IN PA. DURING HER
EARLY YEARS.
Where learned: TELEPHONE ; TOLD BY
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-04-1970
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE EVEN THOUGH ONE'S A SHEEPSHEAD.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID IT WAS A POPULAR EXPRESSION IN PA. DURING HER
EARLY YEARS.
Where learned: TELEPHONE ; TOLD BY
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-04-1970
CHILDREN'S SONG
DO YOUR EARS HANG LOW? DO THEY WOBBLE TO AND FRO?
CAN YOU TIE THEM IN A KNOT? CAN YOU TIE THEM
IN A BOW? CAN YOU THROW THEM OVER YOUR
SHOULDER LIKE A CONTINENTAL SOLDIER?
DO YOUR EARS HANG LOW?
Where learned: TELEPHONE
Keyword(s): EARS ; HYPERBOLE ; STRUCTURE: QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 10-13-1967
EASTER
IF THE FIRST PERSON WHO WALKS IN THE DOOR ON EASTER IS A MAN, IT'S
BAD LUCK; IF IT'S A WOMAN, IT'S GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TELEPHONE ; TOLD BY
Keyword(s): FIRST FOOTING ; LUCK
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 03-07-1970
CHILDREN'S RIME
I SCREAM,
YOU SCREAM,
WE ALL SCREAM
FOR ICE CREAM.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
Keyword(s): FINAL ITERATION ; WORD PLAY, PUN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 10-13-1967
LEBANESE PROVERB
LEBANESE: ROOH HELLEW OO TA HELLOO.
TRANSLATION: GO SWEET AND COME BACK SWEET.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-04-1969
DON'T TRANSACT ANY TYPE OF BUSINESS ON FRIDAY OR MAKE
ANY KIND OF VISIT, OTHERWISE, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
MRS. MUGGLETON LEARNED THIS BELIEF FROM HER ENGLISH-
BORN HUSBAND AND STILL PRACTICES IT.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Week Day Hour BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-02-1963
TAKE THE CHRISTMAS TREE DOWN BY NEW YEAR'S EVE,
OTHERWISE YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
MRS. MUGGLETON LEARNED THIS FROM HER ENGLISH-BORN
HUSBAND AND STILL PRACTICES IT TODAY.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Christmas tree BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-02-1963
WHEN PEOPLE WERE BURIED FROM HOME, A WREATH WAS PLACED
ON THE FRONT DOOR. IF YOU COUNTED THE MARKS WHERE
THE WREATH WAS HUNG FROM, YOU WOULD EITHER HAVE
BAD LUCK OR THERE WOULD BE ANOTHER DEATH.
Submitter comment: MRS. MUGGLETON LEARNED THIS AS A CHILD.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-02-1963
DON'T WEAR PEARLS, THEY WILL BRING TEARS.
Submitter comment:
MRS. M. LEARNED THIS AS A CHILD AND STILL PRACTICES
IT TODAY.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: 11-02-1963
GREETING
SOME PEOPLE JOKING AROUND, ANSWER THEIR TELEPHONE SAYING:
CITY MORGUE, YOU KILL 'EM; WE CHILL 'EM.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 02-23-1971
IF YOU STEP OVER ANY PART OF A PERSON (E.G., STEP-
PING OVER THEIR LEGS TO AVOID THEIR HAVING TO
MOVE THEM) WITHOUT STEPPING BACK OVER AT THE SAME
POINT, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 09-22-1969
IF THE FIRST PERSON WHO WALKS IN THE DOOR ON EASTER IS A
MAN, IT'S BAD LUCK; IF IT'S A WOMAN, IT'S GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. |
Date learned: 03-07-1970
STEP ON A CRACK;
BREAK THE DEVIL'S LEGS.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief |
FOR WARTS, RUB A POTATO ON THE WART, THEN BURY THE POTATO IN
THE MORNING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; TELEPHONE
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-09-1970
ORRIS ROOT AND POWDERED SOUP (SOAP?) MAKE THE BEST TOOTHWASH.
Where learned: TELEPHONE
Keyword(s): TOOTHPASTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 08-12-1968
IN ENGLAND, THE PEOPLE WOULD HUNT THE PEACOCK AND
PRESENT IT TO THE ROYAL FAMILY AS A GIFT. SOON
THERE WAS THE DANGER OF THE PEACOCK BECOMING EXTINCT,
SO THE PEOPLE CONSIDERED IT A SIGN OF BAD LUCK TO
EITHER KILL THE BIRD OR TO HAVE ANY REPRESENTATION
OF IT, WHETHER IT BE PAINTED ON A DISH OR ITS FEATHERS
STYLED ON A WOMAN'S HAT.
Submitter comment:
MRS. MUGGLETON LEARNED OF THIS FROM HER ENGLISH-BORN
HUSBAND.
Where learned: ENGLAND ; TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Bird |
Date learned: 11-02-1963
IN ENGLAND, THE PEOPLE WOULD HUNT THE PEACOCK AND
PRESENT IT TO THE ROYAL FAMILY AS A GIFT. SOON
THERE WAS THE DANGER OF THE PEACOCK BECOMING EXTINCT,
SO THE PEOPLE CONSIDERED IT A SIGN OF BAD LUCK TO
EITHER KILL THE BIRD OR TO HAVE ANY REPRESENTATION
OF IT, WHETHER IT BE PAINTED ON A DISH OR ITS FEATHERS
STYLED ON A WOMAN'S HAT.
Submitter comment:
MRS. MUGGLETON LEARNED OF THIS FROM HER ENGLISH-BORN
HUSBAND.
Where learned: ENGLAND ; TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Bird |
Date learned: 11-02-1963
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
Where learned: TELEPHONE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-12-1970