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SAYING
DON'T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH.
Submitter comment:
SAYING INFORMANT ALWAYS USED WHEN SHE GOT REAL EXCITED ABOUT
SOMETHING INDEFINITE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
SAYING: HUNGER
I'M SO HUNGRY, I COULD EAT A HORSE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
SAYING: FIDGETY
GOT ANTS IN YOUR PANTS.
Submitter comment: MEANS YOU CAN'T SIT STILL AND BEHAVE YOURSELF.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-23-1969
SAYING
CUTTING THE APRON STRINGS.
Submitter comment: MEANS GROWING UP AND LEAVING HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
POPULAR SAYING: BUSY-NESS
BUSY AS A CAT IN A HOT GRIDDLE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
SAYING
BUST A GUSSIT.
Submitter comment:
SAYING THAT MEANS YOU ARE SO MAD OR HAPPY THAT YOU ARE ABOUT
TO EXPLODE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-23-1969
PREDICTION: LUCK
IF YOU FIND A FOUR-LEAF CLOVER, YOU WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | 686 Fourths / Quarters BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Good luck Plants |
NOT GIVEN
DURING YOUR MENSTRUAL PERIOD YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE A BATH. IT IS
CONSIDERED BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH.
Submitter comment: THIS WAS TOLD TO THE INFORMANT BY HER MOTHER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 03-27-1969
PREDICTION: GOOD LUCK SIGN
IF YOU CARRY A RABBIT'S FOOT WITH YOU, IT WILL BRING YOU GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Good luck Animals |
Date learned: 02-12-1969
BELIEF: SUNSHINE AND RAIN
IF THE SUN IS SHINING WHEN IT'S RAINING, IT MEANS THE DEVIL IS
BEATING HIS WIFE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Sun BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 03-27-1969
PREDICTION: VISITORS
WHEN YOUR NOSE ITCHES, IT MEANS SOMEONE IS COMING TO VISIT YOU
SOON.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching nose |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
PREDICTION: WEATHER
IF THERE ARE LOTS OF STARS IN THE SKY, THE NEXT DAY WILL BE PRETTY.
IF NO STARS, IT WILL RAIN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Star BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew BELIEF -- Number |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
PREDICTION
IF YOUR EAR ITCHES IT MEANS SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Sensations and involuntary actions Itching ear |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
BELIEF: BRIDE
IF THE BRIDE WALKS DOWN THE AISLE DURING THE REHEARSAL, SHE AND HER
HUSBAND WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
BELIEF: DREAMS
IF YOU EAT A BANANA RIGHT BEFORE GOING TO BED, YOU WILL HAVE BAD
DREAMS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREENEVILLE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit BELIEF -- Measure of time Working BELIEF -- Measure of time Sleeping BELIEF -- Dreams |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
WHEN YOU ARE A CHILD AND LOSE A TOOTH, YOU PUT IT
UNDER YOUR PILLOW THAT NIGHT. THE TOOTH FAIRY
COMES AND SWAPS MONEY FOR THE TOOTH.
Submitter comment: MY PARENTS DID THIS WHEN I WAS A BIRL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Greenville
James Callow Keyword(s): TRADE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
IF YOU EAT BLACKEYED PEAS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, THIS
WILL BRING YOU LUCK THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE YEAR.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Greenville
Date learned: 03-24-1969
RING AROUND THE MOON, MEANS RAIN THE NEXT DAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Greenville
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P453 BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Circle and other round forms BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
THE FIRST ROBIN YOU SEE MEANS WINTER HAS ENDED AND SPRING IS HERE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Greenville
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Measure of time Winter BELIEF -- Measure of time Spring BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.3 |
Date learned: 03-24-1969
TALE OF PREMONITION
A YOUNG COUPLE WENT OUT PARKING BEHIND THIS OLD CHURCH, IN THE
COUNTRY. AFTER A WHILE, THE GIRL GOT SCARED AND INSISTED THEY
GO HOME. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE GIRL'S HOME, THEY FOUND A
HAND-CUFF FASTENED TO THE DOOR KNOB OF THE FRONT DOOR. LATER
THAT NIGHT, THEY HEARD ON THE RADIO THAT A CONVICT HAD ESCAPED
WHEN BEING TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER JAIL AND WAS VERY DANGEROUS--
HOMOSEXUAL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Greenville
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate |
Date learned: 03-27-1969