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IF YOU LAUGH BEFORE BREAKFAST YOU WILL CRY BEFORE SUPPER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; WILLIAMSON COUNTY
| Subject headings: | Observation PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00001928 CA.
MY UNCLE JOHN USED TO SAY THAT TO KEEP WITCHES AWAY ON
HALLOWEEN YOU SHOULD LOAD YOUR SHOTGUN WITH STOCK PEAS
AND ROCK SALT AND GO OUT AND FIRE IT AT THE MOON EVERY
HALF HOUR BETWEEN SUNDOWN AND MIDNIGHT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; WILLIAMSON COUNTY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- October 31 Halloween BELIEF -- Witch Shaman BELIEF -- Moon |
Date learned: 00001920 CA.
Riddle
What's black and white and red all over?
Variations of answers:
1) Newspaper
2) Skunk with a diaper rash
3) Penguin with a sunburn
4) Blushing zebra
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Black ; Blush ; Brain Teaser ; COLOR ; Diaper Rash ; JOKE ; NEWSPAPER ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Red ; RIDDLE ; SKUNK ; Sunburn ; White ; WORDPLAY ; Zebra
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
TO SEE A SHOOTING STAR IS TO BE WARNED OF DEATH IN THE
FAMILY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; WINCHESTER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Celestial Body BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
Language
Nickname for Grandfather:
"grandpa"
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Grandfather ; Grandpa ; Language ; Nickname
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
DREAMING ABOUT A DOG, ESPECIALLY IF HE'S BARKIN(G), MEANS A
WARNING.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TENNESSEE RIDGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Dreams Domestic varieties |
Date learned: 08-09-1968
RHEUMATISM REMEDY OR PREVENTIVE
WEAR A BUCKEYE ON A STRING AROUND THE NECK SO THAT IT TOUCHES
THE SKIN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; FRANKLIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SIGN OF DEATH
IF YOU HEAR A HEN CROW BEFORE BREAKFAST, IT IS A SIGN OF DEATH.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- P74 P74.84 |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
PROVERB
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
PROVERB: LONGEVITY OF A CAT
A CAT HAS NINE LIVES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
WHEN RAIN DROPS HANG ON THE CLOTHES LINE, IT IS FIXING
TO QUIT RAINING.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 08-13-1968
THERE WAS A MAN BACK HOME THAT ALWAYS TOOK THE BACK ROADS TO
WORK SO HE WOULDN'T MEET ANYONE. IF HE DID MEET ANYONE, IT
WOULD BRING BAD LUCK FOR THE DAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; DICKSON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 06-18-1972
WHEN YOUR EARS ARE BURNING, SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
SKY COLOR
EVENING RED AND MORNING GRAY WILL SET THE TRAVELLER ON HIS WAY.
EVENING GRAY AND MORNING RED WILL BRING DOWN RAIN UPON HIS HEAD.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 08-13-1968
THE HEIG'S WOMEN
AT SHEBOSS CEMETERY THERE ARE FIVE LITTLE TOMB ROCKS
WHICH A GENERATION AGO WAS A MYSTERY TO THIS SECTION.
TWO GROWN WOMEN AND THREE CHILDREN (3 GIRLS) APPEARED
ON THE BANK OF CATHEY'S CREEK AND LIVED THEIR LIVES
AND WERE BURIED AT SHEBOSS AND NO ONE EVER KNEW WHERE
THEY CAME FROM. THEY WERE HARD WORKING PEOPLE AND THEIR
CHARACTER WAS ABOVE REPROACH, BUT THEY LIVED OUT THEIR
LIVES THERE AND NEVER TOLD ANYONE WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
THINK THEIR LIVES WERE SOME LIKE RUTH IN THE BIBLE,
THE FARMERS GAVE OF THEIR ABUNDANCE TO THEM. I'VE
HEARD THAT ONE FARMER HAD WHAT HE CALLED THE HEIG'S
WOMEN'S CRIB THAT HE SAVED CORN ON HIS PLACE TO GIVE
TO THEM.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 08-13-1968
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH BIBLE
WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER I USED TO HEAR FOLKS TALK ABOUT THE
"ST. JOHN'S CHURCH" WHERE A LOT OF CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS ARE
BURIED IN A CEMETERY BEHIND THE CHURCH. IT WAS ACTIVE
DURING THE CIVIL WAR DAYS AND IS LOCATED BETWEEN COLUMBIA
AND MOUNT PLEASANT. I ALWAYS HEARD THERE WAS A BIBLE
IN THIS CHURCH THAT YOU COULDN'T MOVE AND I LATER
LEARNED THAT THE REASON IT COULDN'T BE MOVED WAS THAT
IT WAS MADE OF MARBLE OR STONE IN THE SHAPE OF THE HOLY
BIBLE.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name BELIEF -- Magic Book |
Date learned: 08-13-1968
IT IS BAD LUCK TO TURN ABOUT AND GO AFTER ANYTHING.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
IF YOU HEAR A WHIPPERWILL, IT IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Bad luck Animals |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
IF YOU PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON BACKWARDS, IT IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck Clothing (dress, hat, shoes, suit, etc.) |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
AFTER YOU HEAR YOUR FIRST KATYDID, YOU WILL HAVE A FROST WITHIN
THREE MONTHS.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): SEE ALSO CICADA
Date learned: 07-25-1968