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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Old Mary Mack
There's a children's song entitled 'Old Mary Mack' and it goes
like this:
Old Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black black black
With silver buttons buttons buttons
All down her back back back
She went to the store store store
With fifteen cents cents cents.
Submitter comment: This was sort of one of those patty cake chants.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
Keyword(s): Children's songs
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
Red Light Green Light
This was a children's game in which one chosen person would
close his/her eyes and say "Red light green light" several times
while simultaneously spinning around. While the chosen person
would spin and say this the other participants would run around in
circles around the chosen person. And when the chosen person
opened his/her eyes, whoever was still moving would be put out of
the game.
Submitter comment: This seemed to be a very fun game at the time.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
Keyword(s): GAMES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
It has been said that if you urinate in the middle of the
highway, you'll get a star (pimple) under you eye.
Submitter comment:
Everytime I saw someone with a pimple under his/her eye I would
think about this old saying.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
Keyword(s): Pimple
James Callow Keyword(s): Stye
Date learned: 00-00-1970
Genius
It's been said that if a child never meets his/her father then
that child will be very intelligent.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
Keyword(s): High IQ
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Secular hero BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
Itchy Nose
It's been said that if your nose itches, it usually means
you're gonna kiss a fool.
Submitter comment: My nose itches all the time and I never kiss anyone.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Body part Senses Nose SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
I've been told by my mother that hope, without faith, is like
beefsteak without gravy.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
James Callow Keyword(s): FOOD
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
When I was in gradeschool I always heard that if you step on a
crack, in the sidewalk, you'll break your mother's back.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
When I would eat oranges as a child, I would be afraid to
swallow the seeds because I had always been told that if I did an
orange tree would grow inside me and kill me.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
When I was growing up, my father would tell me a story about a
man who got his head cut off. He would say that every time after
it rained you would be able to see the puddle of blood where it
happened and the night after it rained you would be able to see the
man standing over the puddle of blood.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
In school I would always hear the guys say that when a girl had
a wide gap in her crotch, it meant she was very sexually active.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
My mother would always tell me that when a person had a gap
between their two front teeth, it meant they were a big liar.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Mouth, teeth, lips, tongue |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
In grade school while eating lunch in the cafeteria, I would
see children drop food on the floor. But to be sure the food
wouldn't harm them when they picked it up to eat it, they would say
a little prayer;
God made dirt so it won't hurt
Put it in your mouth and it won't work.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- School BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
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It's been said that the vagina of an oriental is shaped
horizontally instead of vertically.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
It's been said that guys who have an extreme amount of
strength and power aren't getting laid.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P000 |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
My mother always told me that when a bride's maid caught the
bouquet it meant she would be the next to be married.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Marriage Bouquet |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
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HIDE AND SEEK GAME
LAST NIGHT, NIGHT BEFORE,
TWENTY-FIVE ROBBERS AT MY DOOR.
I GOT UP LET THEM IN,
HIT 'EM IN THE HEAD WITH A ROLLING PIN;
TWO BOXES OF WASHING POWDER, TWO BARS OF SOAP,
ALL NOT READY CALL BILLY GOAT.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; MERIDIAN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hiding Searching |
Date learned: 09-00-1960
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