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FEET
IF YOU WORE TENNIS SHOES TOO LONG THEN YOUR FEET WOULD GO FLAT.
THIS
WAS TOLD TO THE INFORMANT BY HER MOTHER WHEN SHE WAS 9 YRS. OLD.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
Keyword(s): CAUSE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
EARACHE
WHEN ONE IS SUFFERING FROM AN EARACHE, TO EASE THE ACHE PLACE
A PLASTIC BAG FILLED WITH HOT SALT NEXT TO YOUR EAR.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT DOES THIS WHENEVER SHE SUFFERS FROM AN EARACHE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): HEAT REMEDY
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 02-20-1971
ARTHRITIS CURE
CARRY A BUCKEYE IN YOUR PURSE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT ACTUALLY DOES THIS.
Where learned: HOME ; PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
SPRAINED ANKLE
USE RED CLAY TO RELIEVE PAIN FROM SPRAINED ANKLE OR ARM.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 10-01-1971
FEET
MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FOOT WHEN IT
GOES TO
SLEEP AND IT WILL WAKE UP.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): RELIGIOUS BELIEF
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Cross and its various modifications BELIEF -- Remedy |
CURE
FOR BOILS: HEAT A BOTTLE BY POURING SCALDING WATER IN IT UNTIL
THE GLASS IS VERY HOT. POUR WATER FROM BOTTLE AND APPLY THE HOT
NECK TO THE BOIL. AS THE BOTTLE COOLS IT WILL SUCK OUT THE PUSS.
Data entry tech comment: THERE ARE 2 SIMILAR REFERENCES IN THIS SECTION OF ARCHIVE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; TRAVERSE CITY
Keyword(s): BOILS ; HEAT REMEDY ; INFECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-29-1970
COUGH
TO STOP A COUGH AT NIGHT PLACE A PIECE OF FLANNEL CLOTH ON YOUR BED
POST AFTER SOAKING IT IN TURPENTINE.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): INHALATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 10-04-1970
WHEN A MILITARY SHIP SINKS, A WREATH IS PLACED ON IT FOR
PRESERVATION OF IT.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F535 |
Date learned: 03-22-1971
FEVER
TO MAKE A FEVER GO DOWN MAKE A LIQUID MIXTURE OF PEACH LEAF TEA AND
DRINK IT OR TAKE A BATH IN THE MIXTURE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 01-00-1971
RIDDLE
WHAT IS GREEN WITH RED POKE A DOTS?
ST. PATRICK WITH THE MEASLES.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-10-1971
PLANTING BELIEF
PLANT ROOT CROPS IN THE DARK OF THE MOON, AND LEAF CROPS IN THE
LIGHT OF THE MOON. INFORMANT HEARD THIS BELIEF FROM A FARMER IN
SOUTHWESTERN PENNA. WHO HE HAS KNOWN FOR THIRTY YEARS.
HIS FRIEND BELIEVES HE FIRST HEARD IT CIRCA 1945.
THE FARMER TOLD THE INFORMANT THAT THIS BELIEF WAS BELIEVED
BY BOTH HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER, WHO WERE BOTH FARMERS IN
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
Where learned: HOME ; PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
SOOT REMEDY
PUT SOOT ON AN OPEN WOUND AND IT WILL STOP BLEEDING AND HEAL FASTER.
Data entry tech comment:
THERE IS 1 OTHER SIMILAR REFERENCE IN THIS SECTION OF ARCHIVE.
OTHER REFERENCES RECOMMEND THE USE OF CIGARET ASHES.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 09-30-1971
CUSTOM
IF YOU GO TO VISIT SOMEONE AT THEIR HOME AND THEY'RE NOT HOME, YOU
TAKE SOMETHING CLOSE AT HAND AND SLIP IT EITHER BETWEEN THE SCREEN
DOOR AND FRONT DOOR OR JUST LEAVE IT IN FRONT OF THE DOOR TO LET
THEM KNOW THAT SOMEONE WAS THERE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 10-15-1971
CHRISTMAS PREDICTION
THE TWELVE DAYS BEFORE X-MAS THE WAY YOU ACT THESE DAYS REFLECTS THE
WAY YOU WILL ACT THE NEXT YEAR.
Where learned: HOME ; DETROIT, ASSUMED
Date learned: 10-22-1968
CHILD EYES, CROSSEYES
YOU SHOULD NOT EAT AND READ AT THE SAME TIME
IF YOU DO IT IS BELIEVED THAT YOU WILL BECOME
CROSSEYED.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT CLAIMS THAT MANY PEOPLE, INCLUDING HIMSELF
USED TO BELIEVE THIS IN EARLIER DAYS.
HEARD IT WHEN HE WAS A CHILD.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-01-1971
CHILDHOOD RHYME
WANT A NICKEL?
GO SUCK A PICKLE.
Keyword(s): CATCH ; FEMINING RHYME ; RHYME: AA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 03-01-1970
DIDYDOE
AFTER BEING FRIGHTENED BY A MAN AT HER HOUSE DRESSED UP
AS SANTA CLAUS, MY AUNT RAN UP UNDER HER BED, AMD WHEN
ASKED TO COME OUT SAID "DID 'E DOE?" THIS EARNED HER
THE NICKNAME DIDYDOE FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S SISTER WAS CALLED THIS UNTIL SHE REBELLED
AGAINST IT.
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 03-01-1970
FOLK CURE
IF A PERSON HAS AN INCURABLE INFECTION, HE SHOULD PLACE THE SORE
NEAR AN ANT HILL. THE ANTS WILL BE ATTRACTED TO THE SORE
AND EAT OUT THE INFECTION, THEREBY CURING IT.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL CURE ; INFECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-04-1969
REMEDY-BAD COUGH
SYRUP WAS MADE WITH OIL OF WINTERGREEN AND WILD CAT OIL AND SOME KIND
OF LEAVES THAT ARE GOTTEN OUT OF THE SAGINAW BAY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT DIDN'T KNOW WHICH LEAVES.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-22-1967