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REFERRING TO BEATING SOMEONE UP: "DUKE YOU OUT!"
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 09-15-1969
FORMULA SPEECH
UNFILLING FOOD IS LIKE YOU GOT ON A HORSE, PUT A FUNNEL
IN YOUR MOUTH AND RODE AGAINST THE WIND.
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 10-20-1969
FORMULA SPEECH
IT'S COLDER THAN A WITCH'S TIT IN A BRASS BRA IN THE
KLONDIKE.
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 10-20-1969
THAT'S THE NUTS! REFERRING TO SOMETHING OUT OF THE
ORDINARY.
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 10-16-1969
CHILD'S MAGIC VERSE
EENIE, MEENIE, HICKORY DICK,
DEEDLY, DODELY, DOMINIC,
ITCHY, BITCHY, DOMINITCHY,
TEE, TOE, TUM,
UGLY, BUGLY, BIGLY, BOO,
POOF, NOW I PUT A HEX ON YOU!
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief C860.646 |
Date learned: 10-22-1969
IF YOU PUT A HAT ON A BED, YOU WILL RUN INTO BAD LUCK.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: APARTMENT
Keyword(s): Bed ; BELIEF ; CLOTHING ; Fashion ; Hat ; LUCK ; Placement ; PREDICTION ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Good luck Clothing (dress, hat, shoes, suit, etc.) BELIEF -- Bad luck Furniture (bed, table, chair, etc.) |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
IF YOU PUT YOUR SHOES ON A TABLE, YOU WILL RUN INTO
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Furniture (bed, table, chair, etc.) BELIEF -- Bad luck Clothing (dress, hat, shoes, suit, etc.) |
Date learned: 11-11-1969
IF WHITE SPOTS APPEAR ON YOUR FINGERNAILS, YOU'VE
TOLD A LIE.
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails |
Date learned: 09-25-1969
FOR EVERY LIE THAT A PERSON TELLS, HE GET A
WHITE SPOT UNDER HIS FINGERNAIL.
Where learned: APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails |
Date learned: 10-09-1969
TO GIVE A GIRL YELLOW VIOLETS IS TO SIGNIFY THAT
YOU LOVE HER.
Submitter comment: GIFT-GIVING
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Color |
Date learned: 10-19-1969
TAKE A STRAW WRAPPER AND TIE IT INTO A KNOT AT THE
CENTER. WITH ONE PERSON GRASPING EITHER END, EACH
MAKES A WISH AND PULLS. WHOEVER GETS THE KNOT
AFTER THE BREAK, HAS HIS WISH SUPPOSEDLY GRANTED.
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 09-25-1969
FORMULA SPEECH
IN REFERRING TO A POWERFUL BLOW: A HAYMAKER
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): METAPHOR
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
Date learned: 09-15-1969
LUCK AND BAD LUCK
SEEING A PREYING (PRAYING) MANTIS ON A WINDOW SILL IS GOOD LUCK.
KILLING ONE IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT ; TOLD AT
James Callow Keyword(s): CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: KILLING A PRAYING MANTIS ; POSITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Good luck P881.33 BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.33 |
Date learned: 09-18-1969
NAMING
FOUR EYES! SOMEONE WHO WEARS GLASSES.
Where learned: SCHOOL APARTMENT ; TOLD AT
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 09-00-1969
MARCH
MARCH: IN LIKE A LION; OUT LIKE A LAMB.
Where learned: APARTMENT
James Callow Keyword(s): ELLIPSIS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation |
Date learned: O9231969
Entry filtered.
Numerology
If you are not sure of a true or false answer on a test, take the number of the question, divide it by 2 (drop the fraction if there is one), and add 7 to that number. If the final answer is even, then the answer to the question is true, and if odd, the answer is false.
Data entry tech comment:
Motif submitted by TRD.
Where learned: APARTMENT
Keyword(s): Cheat ; MATHEMATICS ; NUMEROLOGY ; TEST ; True or False
James Callow Keyword(s): NUMEROLOGY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object |
When Mrs. Bergen poured me a cup of hot tea, she said "Look at all the money that I gave you." The "money" refers to all the air bubbles which accumulate in your cup and gather at the center, which look like silver change is one stretches his imagination.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs and BN added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [N446 f578.4] crossed out. Nothing Replaces them.
Submission card located in a pile marked To Be Classified.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON ; Shiawassee Apartments ; Farmington Place
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; COIN MONEY ; Fortune Telling ; MONEY ; SUPERSTITION ; TEA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object BELIEF -- Use of Object Food PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
THE HEADLESS
IN TOLEDO {OHIO} THERE WAS A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT
IN WHICH THE DRIVER LOST HIS HEAD.
NOW ON THE SAME ROAD, YOU CAN SEE ONE HEADLIGHT
COMING AT YOU (USUALLY AROUND MIDNIGHT), BUT
WHEN IT GETS CLOSE ENOUGH TO MAKE IT OUT, IT
DISAPPEARS. IT IS SAID TO BE THE MOTORCYCLIST
LOOKING FOR HIS HEAD.
Where learned: OHIO ; APARTMENT ; TOLEDO ; DETROIT, ASSUMED ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-12-1969
CRAZY CHARLY
THERE IS A TALE IN NORTHEAST DETROIT {MICHIGAN} ABOUT
A MAN NAMED CHARLY WHO WENT CRAZY. FIRST HE KILLED
HIS WIFE, AND THEN HIMSELF (WITH AN AX).
IT IS REPORTED THAT HE HAS BEEN SEEN CHASING TEENAGERS
PARKED NEAR HIS OLD HOME WITH A BLOODY AX.
Where learned: APARTMENT ; DETROIT, ASSUMED ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Physically handicapped Deformed |
Date learned: 11-12-1969