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POLISH TRADITION
IF A YOUNG LADY BRINGS HER SUITOR HOME TO MEET HER PARENTS AND IF
HER PARENTS NEITHER APPROVE OF NOR APPRECIATE THE YOUNG MAN'S
INTEREST IN THEIR DAUGHTER THEY SERVE HIM "CZARNIA" (A BLACKCOLORED
SOUP MADE OF DUCK'S BLOOD--VERY DELICIOUS, CONSIDERED A DELICACY) AS
A POLITE HINT TO "HIT THE ROAD".
Submitter comment:
IT'S REALLY UNFAIR TO PUT A COLLECTION DATE ON THIS EXAMPLE--I THINK
I'VE KNOWN ABOUT IT ALL MY LIFE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FOOD
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Asking permission to marry |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
BROOM SUPERSTITION
WHEN YOU MOVE FROM ONE RESIDENCE TO ANOTHER, NEVER TAKE YOUR BROOM.
Submitter comment: ITEM WAS LEARNED IN WEST VIRGINIA ALTHOUGH COLLECTED IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BOTSFORD GRADE SCHOOL ; CLARENCEVILLE DISTRICT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Home CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 11-00-1982
CURE
FOR BOILS: HEAT A BOTTLE BY POURING SCALDING WATER IN IT UNTIL
THE GLASS IS VERY HOT. POUR WATER FROM BOTTLE AND APPLY THE HOT
NECK TO THE BOIL. AS THE BOTTLE COOLS IT WILL SUCK OUT THE PUSS.
Data entry tech comment: THERE ARE 2 SIMILAR REFERENCES IN THIS SECTION OF ARCHIVE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; TRAVERSE CITY
Keyword(s): BOILS ; HEAT REMEDY ; INFECTION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-29-1970
ONE DOLLAR DANCE
MALE MEMBERS OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM PAY ONE DOLLAR IN A HAT TO
DANCE WITH BRIDE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Sterling Heights
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of quality Monetary system Money Wealth |
Date learned: 11-00-1982
CAR ACCIDENT
AFTER I, THE COLLECTOR, MENTIONED THE STORY THAT YOU CAN HEAR A
THUMPING SOUND WHENEVER YOU RIDE DOWN THE STREET ON THE EAST
SIDE OF DETROIT WHERE A GIRL WAS KILLED BY A CAR, THE FOLLOWING WAS
TOLD: THE SOUND OF THE THUMPING IS HER KNOCKING ON THE CAR
FOR THE PEOPLE TO STOP AS SHE WAS DRAGGED SO FAR ON THE AXLE OF
THE CAR.
Submitter comment:
SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER WHERE SHE HEARD THIS, BUT IT WAS PART OF THE
STORY AS I FIRST MENTIONED IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 05-10-1965
PREVENTION OF THE FLU
TO PREVENT CATCHING THE FLU,
WEAR A PIECE OF GARLIC TIED TO A STRING
AROUND THE NECK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S MOTHER HAD HER CHILDREN PRACTICE THIS
IN THE EARLY 1920'S.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
HALLOWEEN PRANK
WE WOULD SHELL ALL FALL THE EARS OFF CORN AND THROW
THEM AGAINST THE WINDOWS. IT WAS A BIG THING FOR US
AT HALLOWEEN.
MR. YOUNT ADDED THAT THEY ALSO PUT CABBAGE STALKS ON
PORCHES, TOO.
Submitter comment: PRACTICES IN GLOUCESTER AND HOLLISTER, OHIO.
Where learned: OHIO ; GLOUCESTER ; HOLLISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity Song: Game, Pastime, Sport |
Date learned: 05-11-1965
WHO BECOMES A VAMPIRE
UNBAPTISED PEOPLE BURIED IN UNHALLOWED GROUND WILL BECOME VAMPIRES.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: ENGLAND ; WORCESTER
Keyword(s): BAPTISM ; SUPERSTITION ; Undead ; Vampire
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Werewolf Vampire |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
LYRICAL VERSE
THROUGH THE TEETH AND PAST THE GUNS;
LOOK OUT STOMACH, HERE IT COMES.
Submitter comment: AT PARTIES WHEN DRINKING.
Where learned: EAST DETROIT, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: NOT ENTERED
A CHILD'S PRAYER SWEDISH
GUD SOM HATVER BARNEN KAR; SE TIL MIG SOM LITEN AR;
HVART JAG MIG I VERLDEN VANDER; STAR MIN LYCKA I GUD'S HANDER.
GOD THAT LOVES THE CHILDREN; WATCH O'ER ME THAT LITTLE IS;
WHERE EVER I TRAVEL IN THIS WORLD, RESTS MY FORTUNE IN
HIS HANDS.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT REMEMBERS HER MOTHER TELLING HER THIS PRAYER
ABOUT 75 YEARS AGO, WHEN SHE WAS A SMALL CHILD.
Where learned: LETTER ; MINNESOTA ; STURGEON LAKE
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief |
Proverb
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Submitter comment:
When I was working as well as going to school and didn't have any time for socializing.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: BOSTON ; Massachusetts
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cake ; GREED ; Hypocrite ; Maxim ; PARADOX ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
HALLOWEEN
AT HALLOWEEN TIME , A WIRE WAS ATTACHED TO A WINDOW SCREEN. THEN
WHEN RUBBING THE WIRE WITH A PIECE OF ROSIN, IT WOULD MAKE EERIE
NOISES.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- September 23 equinox to December 20 Also used for Advent. |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
Proverb
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Divine ; Err ; Forgive ; Human ; Maxim ; Mistake ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Language
RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY/ COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY/ LITTLE JOHNNIE WANTS
TO PLAY.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD / Updated on 01-13-2011
Where learned: EAST DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Language ; Play ; Rain ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
OBSERVATION
NEVER CUT YOUR HAIR ON THE NIGHT OF A FULL MOON
AS IT MAY NEVER GROW BACK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANTS MOTHER ACTUALLY BELIEVED THIS AND TOLD IT TO MR. ROBINSON
WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG BOY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak |
Date learned: 01-20-1970
PROVERB
LET US NOT MEASURE FROM WHERE WE STARTED TO WHERE WE ARE
PRESENTLY, BUT FROM WHERE WE ARE PRESENTLY TO WHERE WE
HAVE TO GO.
Where learned: TRENTON ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 12-25-1969
SPANISH PROBERB
IF YOU ARE BITTER AT HEART, SURGAR IN THE OOUTH WILL NOT HELP YOU.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; WEST SENECA
Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-00-1969
BAD LUCK (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)
A BROKEN MIRROR IS SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: BIG BOY RESTAURANT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.14 |
Date learned: 11-15-1968
BAD LUCK: ANIMAL (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
IT IS BAD LUCK TO LET A CAT AND DOG FIGHT.
Where learned: PASTEUR SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.3 |
Date learned: 01-29-1968
HUNGARIAN PROVERB
GOOD COFFEE SHOULD BE BLACK LIKE THE DEVIL, HOT LIKE HELL, AND SWEET
LIKE A KISS.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; WEST SENECA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 10-00-1969