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HERO/LEGEND BELIEF
JAMES DEAN, REPORTED TO HAVE DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN 1955,
IS BELIEVED TO STILL BE ALIVE, THOUGH HORRIBLY SCARRED. TO
HIDE HIS APPEARANCE, HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIVING ANONYMOUSLY IN A
SANITORIUM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Secular hero |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
JIM MORRISSON, LEADER OF THE MUSICAL GROUP "THE DOORS,"
REPORTEDLY DIED IN 1972 IN PARIS. IT IS BELIEVED BY SOME OF HIS FANS
THAT HE FAKED HIS DEATH AND IS ALIVE TO THE PRESENT DAY.
IT IS ALLEGEDLY QUITE EASY TO OBTAIN A DEATH CERTIFICATE IN
FRANCE. THE ONLY PEOPLE KNOWN TO HAVE SEEN HIS CORPSE ARE NOW
DEAD THEMSELVES. THIS IS ONLY A RUMOR. IT WILL PROBABLY
NEVER BE SOLVED SINCE IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT HIS GRAVE WILL BE
EXHUMED TO EITHER PROVE OR DISPROVE IT.
HIS REASON FOR DOING THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THAT HE WAS TIRED
OF THE PRESSURES OF SUPERSTARDOM AND SAW A STAGED DEATH
AS HIS ONLY MEANS OF ESCAPE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Secular hero |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
EXPECTANT MOTHER BELIEF-CUSTOM
A PREGNANT WOMAN SHOULDNT RAISE HER ARMS ABOVE HER HEAD OR SHE
WILL STRANGLE THE BABY.
Submitter comment:
THIS BELIEF WAS FIRMLY HELD BY THE INFORMANT'S ITALIAN FEMALE
RELATIVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 10-00-1982
INFANT/ANIMAL CUSTOM-BELIEF
DONT LEAVE A BABY ALONE WITH A CAT OR IT WILL SUCK THE LIFE
OUT OF THE BABY.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS A FIRMLY HELD BELIEF AMONG THE INFORMANT'S ITALIAN
FEMALE RELATIVES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-00-1982
PHYSIOLOGICAL BELIEF-CUSTOM
AMERICAN INDIANS WOULD ISOLATE A WOMAN DURING HER MENSTRUAL
CYCLE BECAUSE IT WAS BELIEVED SHE WAS CONTAMINATED BY EVIL SPIRITS
DURING THIS TIME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
HUNTING BELIEF
BEARS SHOULD NEVER BE SHOT WHILE FACING THEM BECAUSE THEY WILL
LUNGE FORWARD. THEY SHOULD ALWAYS BE SHOT FROM THE SIDE.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT REPORTS THIS TO BE COMMON KNOWLEDGE AMONG
EXPERIENCED HUNTERS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics BELIEF -- Mammal |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
ANIMAL BELIEF
COVER YOUR HEAD IF YOU SEE A BAT. THEY WILL GRAB YOUR HAIR
WITH THEIR FEET
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT MAINTAINS THIS TO BE AN OLD WIVE'S TALE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Mammal |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
PROVERBIAL MAXIM
IF YOU CHEAT AND LOSE, THERE WAS NO SENSE IN CHEATING. IF YOU
CHEAT AND WIN, THERE WAS NO SENSE IN PLAYING.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT REMEMBERED THIS AS A WELL-KNOWN SAYING IN HER
FAMILY, BUT IT IS OF NO PARTICULAR ETHNIC ORIGIN.
THIS PROVERB IS USED TO PREVENT CHILDREN FROM GETTING INTO THE
HABIT OF CHEATING AND TO CORRECT THEM WHEN CAUGHT CHEATING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
James Callow Keyword(s): FUNCTION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
MEDICAL BELIEF
WEARING A CLOVE OF GARLIC ON A STRING AROUND YOUR NECK WILL
PREVENT CONTRACTION OF THE FLU.
Submitter comment: ITS EFFECTIVENESS IS DOUBTFUL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
COUGH REMEDY
EQUAL PARTS OF WHISKEY AND LEMON JUICE AND SYRUP IN A SHOT GLASS.
Submitter comment: THIS REMEDY DOES WORK, SOMEWHAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CLINTON TOWNSHIP
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-00-1982