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IF A DOG HOWLED AT A FULL MOON, THEN SOMEONE HAD DIED.
IF A BIRD FLEW INTO A HOUSE, SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY
IS GOING TO DIE.
Submitter comment: DOES NOT KNOW ORIGIN
Where learned: WORK
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 12-02-1967
IF YOU SAW A SHOOTING STAR, THEN SOMEONE WAS GOING TO DIE.
Submitter comment: ORIGIN: DOESN'T KNOW.
Where learned: WORK
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 12-02-1967
ENGINE, ENGINE NUMBER NINE / RUNNING DOWN CHICAGO LINE,/ IF THE TRAIN
SHOULD JUMP THE TRACK/ DO YOU WANT YOUR MONEY BACK? YES, Y-E-S SPELLS
YES. (NO, N-O SPELLS NO) AND YOU ARE NOW OUT.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ON A PLAYGROUND ; JOHNSTOWN ; WORKING
Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-06-1967
BACKACHE CURE
DIP A STRING IN TURPENTINE AND TIE IT AROUND YOUR WAIST.
Where learned: WORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: 08-12-1968
IF YOU CUT YOUR FINGERNAILS ON SUNDAY YOU WILL BE GROUCHY
ALL WEEK.
Where learned: WORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails |
Date learned: 08-12-1968
TONGUE TWISTER
A TUTOR TUTORED TWO TOOTERS TO TOOT. SAID THE TWO TO THE
TUTOR, "IS IT EASIER TO TOOT OR TO TUTOR TWO TOOTERS TO
TOOT?"
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 04-00-1970
AT CHRISTMAS TIME ALL THE KIDS IN THE FAMILY GET A SHOT OF WHISKEY.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Keyword(s): CHRISTMAS ; CUSTOM ; DRINK ; holiday
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Single dishes |
Date learned: 10-30-1971
"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME FOR? I DIDN'T COME TO STAY. I ONLY CAME
TO TELL YOU THIS IS EASTER DAY."
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A GREETING BY THE CHURCH DEACON TO THE CONGREGATION AT
EASTER MASS.
Keyword(s): RITUAL SPEECH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Custom Festival C840.663 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday |
Date learned: 10-30-1971
NUMBER BELIEF
NUMBER THIRTEEN IN SOME PLACES IS CONCIDERED BAD LUCK.
THERE WILL BE NO ROOM 13 OR FLOOR 13 OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
Submitter comment: THIS SUPERSTITION ABOUT 13 IS VERY PREVALENT IN LATIN AMERICA.
Where learned: WORK ; TOLD AT ; IRA WILSON AND SONS
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described |
Date learned: 02-28-1970
NUMBER BELIEF
IN SOME PART OF LATIN AMERICA, NUMBER 13 IS CONSIDERED GOOD LUCK AND
IT IS USED ALL OVER.
Submitter comment:
THIS CONTROVERSIAL 13 NUMBER, WHETHER GOOD LUCK OR BAD, IS QUITE
PREVALENT IN LATIN AMERICA.
Where learned: WORK ; TOLD AT ; IRA WILSON AND SONS
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described |
Date learned: 10-13-1970
Dog Joke
There was a dog convention going on. The dogs were told to
check in and hang their rear-ends up on the wall for display. The
convention hall caught on fire! Dogs were yelling, "Fire! fire!,
everybody just grab a rear-end and escape!" That's why dogs go
around smelling each other's butts today, they're trying to locate
their own.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Co workers ; Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
James Callow Keyword(s): Origin of animal behavior
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Mammal PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote |
Date learned: 00001980S
SAYING
SLEEPING YOUR BRAINS INTO TRAIN ILE (OIL).
Where learned: WORK
Keyword(s): LAZINESS SLOTH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
THERE ARE MORE ASSES IN THE WORLD THAN THERE ARE HORSES.
Where learned: WORK
Keyword(s): ANIMALS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-29-1968
Belief: Animal
Belief in Magic:
If you place a horsehair in vinegar it will turn into a worm.
Submitter comment:
This was told to the informant by her grandmother many years ago.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [P600] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classifications.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; WORK ; CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; BELIEF ; HAIR ; HORSE ; MAGIC ; SUPERSTITION ; TRANSFORMATION ; VINEGAR ; Worm
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Creation and Order of Animal Life BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Entry filtered.
Belief: Weather
Irish - Weather:
Rain before seven, fine at eleven.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [P800] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification.
DUP. of WPP
Where learned: WORK
Keyword(s): ; NATURE ; PREDICTION ; Rain ; TIME ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Proverb
I see said the blind man and he picked up his hammer and saw.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [S300] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.
Where learned: WORK
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; BLIND ; Hammer ; METAPHOR ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PROVERB ; PUN ; Saw ; See ; Sight ; VERSE ; Wellerism
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation |
Entry filtered.
PROVERB
IF THE BOOT FITS, WEAR IT
James Callow Keyword(s): ACCEPTANCE ; ADVICE POSITIVE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-29-1968
A PERSON BORN ON DECEMBER 25TH DIRECTLY AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT
WILL NOT LIVE LONG.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 25TH AND DIED QUITE EARLY IN
LIFE. WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS BORN ON THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT I DON'T
KNOW.
Where learned: DETROIT ; WORK ; J L HUDSONS ; TOLD AT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve Predictions |
Date learned: 10-13-1969