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NOT GIVEN
LIKE A FOX IN A HENHOUSE.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
INDEPENDENT AS A HOG ON ICE.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
I LIKE HIM LIKE A HAIR ON A BISCUIT.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
Keyword(s): IRONY DISLIKE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
PROVERB: GETTING ATTENTION
THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
GREENER'N A GOURD.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
FIRST TIME I HEARD THAT JOKE I KICKED THE SLATS OUT OF
MY CRADLE.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
FINER'N FROG HAIR.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
NOT GIVEN
BUSIER THAN A ONE-ARMED PAPERHANGER.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
DON'T LET A PREGNANT WOMAN COMB YOUR HAIR OR IT WILL FALL
OUT OR BREAK OFF.
Where learned: ALABAMA, ASSUMED ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 06-19-1972
A PREGNANT WOMAN SHOULD NOT LAUGH AT ANY DEFORMED PERSON
OR HER UNBORN CHILD WILL HAVE THE SAME DEFORMITY.
Where learned: ALABAMA, ASSUMED ; HUNTSVILLE
Date learned: 06-20-1972
IF THE SUN SHINES WHILE IT IS RAINING, THE DEVIL IS WHIPPING
HIS WIFE WITH A RIN PAN.
Where learned: ALABAMA, ASSUMED ; HUNTSVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): DEVIL BEATING HIS WIFE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Sun BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 06-18-1972
NOT GIVEN
ANYBODY WHO'D DO THAT WOULD PUSH LITTLE CHICKENS IN
THE CREEK.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
Keyword(s): CRUELTY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 06-27-1973
IN HUNTSVILLE IN JONE'S VALLEY THERE'S A
GRAVEYARD WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO AT NIGHT AND HEAR
"SCREAMING." JUDY FOSTER HEARD IT.
SUPPOSEDLY, IN THE 1800S THE JONES FAMILY WAS HAVING
A PARTY AND ONE OF THE JONES GIRLS WHO WAS A WICKED
GIRL LEFT THE PARTY EARLY. SHE NEVER CAME BACK AND
SO THE PARTIERS SEARCHED FOR HER AND FOUND HER BODY
LYING SCATTERED ALL OVER THE AREA AND ON HER HEAD
WAS A BLACK CROSS SIGN. TO THIS DAY SHE CAN BE
HEARD SCREAMING WHEN YOU ARE STANDING IN THE
GRAVEYARD.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; PEABODY ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00-00-1800
A SURE SIGN THAT EASTER IS NEAR IS OBSERVED IN THE BLOOMING
OF THE DOGWOOD TREE. THIS TREE BLOOMS SYMBOLIC OF EASTER
BECAUSE THE WOOD OF THIS TREE WAS USED FOR THE CROSS ON
WHICH CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED. IN THOSE DAYS THE DOGWOOD
TREE GREW REAL LARGE, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS MISUSED, IT NOW
IS A VERY DWARFY TREE. THE PETALS IF EXAMINED CLOSELY
RESEMBLE A CROSS.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; HUNTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- P663 BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Cross and its various modifications |
Date learned: 06-24-1972