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LOVE YOU LITTLE, LOVE YOU BIG,
LOVE YOU LIKE A GREAT BIG PIG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; GRADE SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
WHEN YOU ACCIDENTALLY SPILL SALT, INFORMANT TAKES
A FEW GRAINS OF SALT AND THROWS IT OVER EACH
SHOULDER FOR GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; GRADE SCHOOL ; REDFORD ; SAINT MARYS
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCIDENT ; POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Upper body, arms, neck BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Good luck Activities |
Date learned: 02-12-1970
SWEET-PEA SUPERSTITION
ALL SWEET-PEA PLANTS MUST BE PLANTED ON GOOD FRIDAY IN ORDER FOR THEM
TO GROW.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT NEGLECTED TO DO SO ONE YEAR AND PLANTED THEM ONE WEEK LATE,
AND THEY DID NOT GROW THAT YEAR.
Where learned: SAINT MARYS AND GRAND ; GRADE SCHOOL ; REDFORD ; SAINT MARYS
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
RHYME
STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES,/ BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME.
Submitter comment: SAID THIS DURING GRADE SCHOOL DAYS.
Where learned: GRADE SCHOOL
Keyword(s): INTERNAL RHYME ; RHYME: AABC
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
ADVENT CUSTOM
THE GERMANS CELEBRATE ADVENT WITH A WREATH BEARING FOUR CANDLES, ONE
OF WHICH IS LIT EACH SUNDAY OF THE SEASON.
Where learned: GRADE SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | 645 September 23 Equinox to December 20 |
THE WORMS CRAWL IN
YOU SHOULD NEVER LAUGH AS THE HEARSE GOES BY
'CAUSE YOU MIGHT BE THE NEXT TO DIE.
THEY'LL PUT YOU IN A WOODEN BOX
AND COVER YOU UP WITH DIRT AND ROCKS.
ALL GOES FINE FOR ABOUT ONE WEEK
AND THEN THE COFFIN BEGINS TO LEAK.
THE WORMS CRAWL IN, THE WORMS CRAWL OUT,
THE WORMS PLAY PEANUCKLE ON YOUR SNOUT.
YOUR INSIDES TURN A SLIMY GREEN
AND PUSS FLOWS OUT JUST LIKE WHIPPED CREAM.
THE WORMS CRAWL IN, THE WORMS CRAWL OUT,
THE WORMS PLAY PEANUCKLE ON YOUR SNOUT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GRADE SCHOOL ; SAGINAW
Keyword(s): DECAY OF BODY AFTER DEATH ; GORE, GOTHIC HORROR ; PINOCHLE, A CARD GAME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Death Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
HICCUPS
TO CURE THE HICCUPS, BREATHE TWENTY TIMES INTO A BROWN PAPER BAG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; GRADE SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Number P686.1.20 BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 03-13-1965
STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES,
BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME.
Submitter comment:
REPLY TO A TAUNT.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; GRADE SCHOOL
Keyword(s): BONES ; Defense ; poem ; Reverse Taunt ; RHYME ; SONG ; Sticks ; STONES ; TAUNT ; WORDS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse BELIEF -- P870 P870.570 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF A GIRL WEARS BLUE ON THURSDAYS, IT MEANS SHE IS
PREGNANT.
Submitter comment: THIS WAS A POPULAR BELIEF IN 8TH GRADE, 1962.
Where learned: GRADE SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
THE PERSON RECEIVING THE MOST VALENTINES WILL BE
THE FIRST ONE TO MARRY FROM THAT CLASS.
Where learned: GRADE SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of object for determining future spouse P862.9 |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE THING THAT GOES THE FARTHEST,
THE THING THAT'S MOST WORTHWHILE,
THE THING THAT COSTS THE LEAST AND DOES THE MOST,
IS JUST A PLEASANT SMILE.
(SIGNED) RICKY HOFFMAN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM ; GRADE SCHOOL ; HOLY NAME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Chimney corner wisdom, advice, humorous fortune |
Date learned: 06-00-1961
I THOUGHT AND THOUGHT
AND THOUGHT IN VAIN--
AND THEN I THOUGHT
I'D SIGN MY NAME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM ; GRADE SCHOOL ; HOLY NAME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Announcing a signature |
Date learned: 06-00-1961
A CHILDHOOD SAYING GOES:
TWO'S A COUPLE,
THREE'S A CROWD,
FOUR ON THE SIDEWALK
IS NEVER ALLOWED.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT RECITED THIS TO ME AS A TRAFFIC RULE.
Where learned: GRADE SCHOOL ; ON THE WAY HOME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Custom Festival C840.533 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief C860.539 |
Date learned: 00001957 CA.
IF THE NUMBER OF CARS IN A FUNERAL PROCESSION ARE
COUNTED, THE PEOPLE IN THE LAST CAR WILL BE NEXT
TO DIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; GRADE SCHOOL ; SAINT STEPHEN
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Last events: the last person to the table... BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs |
Date learned: 11-19-1969
TAKE AN APPLE, GRAB HOLD OF THE STEM, AND BEGIN TURNING
IT IN ONE DIRECTION, SAYING ONE LETTER OF THE ALPHABET
WITH EACH SUCCESSIVE TURN OF THE STEM. WHENEVER THE
STEM BREAKS OFF, THE LETTER THAT YOU ARE ON IS THE
INITIAL OF THE FIRST NAME OF SOMEONE (BOY'S NAME FOR
A GIRL AND A GIRL'S NAME FOR A BOY) WHO LIKES YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GRAND RAPIDS ; GRADE SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of object for determining true love P861.1 |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
Rope-Jumping Rhyme
CINDERELLA
DRESS IN YELLA
WENT UPSTAIRS TO KISS HER FELLA
HOW MANY KISSES DID SHE GIVE HIM?
1, 2, 3, 4, . . .
Submitter comment:
I learned this from my girlfriends in grad school on the school's parking lot.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; GRADE SCHOOL ; PARKING LOT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR.
Glory, Glory
Glory, glory hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Stood behind the door with a leaded forty-four.
Teacher doesn't teach here anymore.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GRADE SCHOOL ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |