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IF A BABY DOES NOT FALL OFF A BED OR CRIB BEFORE HE/SHE IS ONE
YEAR OLD, HE/SHE WILL NOT LIVE TO BE FIVE YEARS OLD.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RUTHERFORD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 06-23-1973
DON'T CUT A BABY'S FINGERNAILS BEFORE HE/SHE IS ONE YEAR OLD, IT
WILL MAKE HIM/HER STEAL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RUTHERFORD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 06-23-1973
DON'T GET YOUR HAIR CUT IN THE MONTH OF MARCH, IT WILL CAUSE
HEADACHES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RUTHERFORD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 06-23-1973
WHAT YOU DO ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, YOU WILL DO IT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RUTHERFORD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 06-23-1973
BLACK-AMERICAN CURE
FOR SICK HEADACHE, LAY A COLD WET CLOTH ON THE STOMACH WITH
DRY FLANNEL OVER IT. PUT THE FEET INTO HOT MUSTARD WATER,
AND SWALLOW A FEW SPOONFULS OF LEMON JUICE.
Submitter comment:
MRS. GOODEN FAITHFULLY PRACTICES HER OLD-FASHIONED CURES
WHEN NEEDED.
Where learned: TENNESSEE
Keyword(s): MEDICATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
BLACK-AMERICAN CURE
TO REMOVE FRECKLES, STIR A TABLESPOON OF FRESHLY
GRATED HORSE-RADISH INTO A CUPFUL OF SOUR MILK;
LET IT STAND FOR 12 HOURS, THEN STRAIN AND
APPLY OFTEN.
Submitter comment:
THIS METHOD ACCORDING TO INFORMANT ALSO BLEACHES
THE COMPLEXION AND TAKES OFF TAN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE
Keyword(s): MEDICATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |
Expression
To beat the tar out of someone means to beat them up
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ;
Keyword(s): Beat ; EUPHEMISM ; Expression ; Injure ; Language ; Saying ; Tar ; VIOLENCE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Expression
Once in a blue moon.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Blue ; Expression ; Language ; METAPHOR ; MOON ; Rarely ; Saying ; SIMILE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
SNOW
WHEN THE SNOW FALLS IN HUGE WET FLAKES, OLD MOTHER GOOSE IS
PICKING HER GEESE.
Submitter comment: C. 1918
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SPRING HILL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Legend |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
VERSE ON GRAVE STONE
"JAMES TOY HAYES
SEPT. 6, 1828
FEB. 10, 1891
AN HONEST MAN THE NOBLEST
WORK OF GOD."
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SMITHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C882 |
Date learned: 07-01-1972
VERSE ON A GRAVE STONE
"JOHN JEWELL
SON OF
J.C. & N.M. WEST
OCT. 11, 1903
OCT. 18, 1903
BUDDED ON EARTH TO
BLOOM IN HEAVEN
Submitter comment: THIS VERSE WAS FOUND ON SEVERAL CHILDREN'S STONES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SMITHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C882 |
Date learned: 07-01-1972
VERSE ON A GRAVE STONE
"WILL ROGER
SON OF
W.H. & M.C. HAYES
JUNE 30, 1892
DEC. 14, 1893
DEAR PAPA AND MAMA WEEP NOT FOR ME...
FOR I AM WAITING IN HEAVEN FOR THEE."
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SMITHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C882 |
Date learned: 07-01-1972
VERSE ON A GRAVE STONE
"ANNA AGNES PARIS
JUNE 12, 1928
JUNE 12, 1928
A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE
TO BLOOM WITH GOD ABOVE."
Submitter comment:
COLLECTED WHILE I WAS IN SMITHVILLE FOR THE FOLK COUNTY FIDDLER'S
JAMBOREE AND CONTESTS HELD IN DECALB COUNTY, AND INCLUDING
FIDDLERS FROM UPPER CUMBERLAND REGION.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SMITHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C882 |
Date learned: 07-01-1972
DON'T LET A BLACK CAT CROSS YOUR PATH
BECAUSE IT IS BAD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00001970S
I'VE NEVER KNOWN THIS TO BE TRUE IN ANYONE ELSE'S FAMILY,
BUT THE SCOTT FAMILY. WE CALL IT "DEATH TOKENS."
IN MY LIFE THERE WERE THREE RINGS OF A BELL AND SOMEONE
DIED. ONE TIME 3 KEYS ON THE PIANO PLAYED WITHOUT ANYONE
SITTING THERE. AND THE LAST TIME THERE WERE 3 KNOCKS ON THE
BED AND SOMEONE DIED.
USUALLY THE PERSON WHO DOESN'T HEAR IT WILL BE THE ONE TO
DIE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; DICKSON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 06-18-1972
PEOPLE BORN BETWEEN THE LIGHTS (DUSK AND DAWN) CAN SEE SPIRITS.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant learned this from the book "These Are Our Lives" (Kingsport Press, 1939, pp.26-29), a Federal Writers' Project publication featuring the everyday lives of people in the South.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; KINGSPORT ; "These Are Our Lives"
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 00-00-1939
CONGESTION CURE 3
A CURE FOR CONGESTION TOLD TO ME BY MY AUNT, IS IN THE
FORM OF A TEA MADE FROM BOILED RHUBARB MIXED WITH SUGAR,
A BIT OF LEMON AND A DROP OF CAMPHORATED SPIRITS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MARTIN
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Brew of leaf, bark, root BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001940CA
Elves
Idea tht elves come in when no one is about to do household chores, etc. -Ireland
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Chores ; Clean ; Cultural ; Domestic ; Elves ; ETHNIC ; FANTASY ; IRELAND ; MYTH ; REGIONAL
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Fairy Elf Goblin Gnome |
Legend
Legend of Davey Crockett:
The West was a rich source of tall tales of a man such as Davey Crockett, the country boy/indian fighter elected to Congress. In washington, he told tall tales about his Western days"...killed himself a bear when he was only three."
Tales such as these have become legends.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Bear ; Congress ; Davey Crockett ; INDIAN ; Legend ; TALL TALE ; Wild West
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Legend |
LOST RIVER
THIS RIVER IS SO NAMED BECAUSE IT FLOWS FOR APPROX-
IMATELY TWO MILES UNDERGROUND WHEN IT THEN FLOWS
INTO CANEY FORK RIVER. LOST RIVER BEGINS IN
HICKERY (HICKORY?) VALLEY IN SOUTH SPARTA,
TENNESSEE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Sparta
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 07-27-1968