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PROVERB
YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER, BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE HIM
DRINK.
Submitter comment:
YOU CAN EXPOSE PEOPLE TO KNOWLEDGE, ETC., BUT YOU CAN'T
LEARN IT FOR THEM.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
YOU CAN'T MAKE A SILK PURSE OUT OF A SOW'S EAR.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
YOU'LL BE UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE.
YOU'LL BE UP SHIT CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
YOU MADE YOUR BED AND NOW YOU MUST LIE IN IT.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
YOU'RE AS MUCH ALIKE AS TWO PEAS IN A POD.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SAYING
YOU HAVEN'T GOT THE SENSE GOD GAVE A GOOSE.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
SMALL PITCHERS AND SMALL CHILDREN HAVE BIG EARS.
Submitter comment:
NEVER SAY ANYTHING IN FRONT OF A CHILD THAT YOU DO NOT WANT
REPEATED.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER.
Submitter comment: LIKES ATTRACT ONE ANOTHER.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
FEVER BLISTER CURE
TO GET RID OF A FEVER BLISTER ON THE LIPS, BREAK THE BLISTER AND
DAB A LITTLE SALT OR CAMPHOR INTO THE OPENED BLISTER. THIS IS
QUITE PAINFUL FOR A MOMENT, BUT IT DOES SEEM TO GET RID OF THE
BLISTER.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THUMB SUCKING CURE
TO CURE AN INFANT OF SUCKING ITS THUMB MY MOTHER PRESCRIBED THIS:
WRAP A PIECE OF CLOTH SOAKED IN CAMPHOR OR SOME OTHER STRONG
TASTING LIQUID ON THE THUMB AND SECURE IT WITH STRING SO THAT
IT COULD NOT EASILY BE REMOVED. WHEN THE CHILD TASTED THE
CAMPHOR OFTEN ENOUGH, IT WOULD REMEMBER THAT THE THUMB WAS NOT
TO BE SUCKED.
Where learned: WEST VIRGINIA ; SALEM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF SOMEONE THAT WISHES YOU HARM PASSES BY, SPIT ON THE GROUND
AS THEY PASS AND NO HARM WILL COME OF YOU.
Submitter comment:
Virginia Costa. 52 Years old. Housewife - Italian. Dunlevy, Penn.
She said this to me this summer when someone she didn't like walked by.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; DUNLEVY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Conversions SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 07-00-1973