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Environmental Factor
Product of Enviromental Factor:
Making a sand castle
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Build ; Castle ; ENVIRONMENT ; Product ; Sand
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Clay |
MARY BLACK
MARY BLACK WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TEACHERS AT GAILOR
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN MASON. HER HOUSE BURNED, AND
THE RUINS ARE STILL ON THE GROUNDS OF THE SCHOOL.
NOBODY CAN REMEMBER WHETHER SHE DIED IN THE FIRE OR NOT.
BUT MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN HER ON THE GROUNDS OF THE
SCHOOL.
THE NEGRO EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN MEMPHIS USED TO HOLD
CAMP ON THE GROUNDS, AND MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN HER
COMING TO WELCOME THE CAMPERS AND TO WATCH OVER
THEM EACH SUMMER. SHE WEARS AN OLD FASHION BLACK
HAT AND A BLACK SUIT WITH A VERY LONG SKIRT.
IN HER HONOR ON THE LAST NIGHT OF CAMP THE CAMPERS
WOULD HAVE A "HAUNTING" AND PLAY JOKES ON EACH OTHER AND
DRESS UP LIKE GHOST TO SCARE THE YOUNGER CAMPERS..
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MASON
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 07-23-1968
Environmental Factor
Product of Environmental Factor:
Making a scarecrow for vegetable garden.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; ENVIRONMENT ; Farm ; Scarecrow ; VEGETABLE
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Weaving material For costuming in dance or drama, see C484. Flax Hemp Jute |
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
EASY AS PIE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; JONESBORO, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): FOOD
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
AT MARYVILLE COLLEGE, MARYVILLE, TENNESSEE, EVERY TIME THE HOME
TEAM RECEIVES A KICKOFF IN A FOOTBALL GAME, THE CROWD WILL RISE AND
LOCK RAISED THUMBS FOR GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MARYVILLE
| Subject headings: | 881 Games / Pastimes / Sports BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hands, palms, fingernails BELIEF -- School |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
CROUP STRAP
IT IS A COMMON CUSTOM AROUND FARMS AND STABLES THAT WHEN A CITY
BRED PERSON ASKS WHAT A CERTAIN LEATHER LOOP, A CROUP STRAP, IS
USED FOR, THE PERSON RECEIVES THE ANSWER OF "THAT, WHY ANY
HORSE'S ASS KNOWS WHAT THAT'S FOR!" THE CROUP STRAP GOES AROUND
THE HORSE'S TAIL TO HELP KEEP THE HARNESS, AND SOMETIMES THE
SADDLE, IN PLACE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; ERIN ; ROUTE 2
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
PLANT IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON, YOU'LL HAVE TALL CORN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; ROWESVILLE
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Environmental Factor
Background and Environmental Factors:
Mitten Mountain, Montana - rare name - named because of a fire scar causing the shape of a mitten.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; American Place Names
Keyword(s): Background ; Environmental ; ETYMOLOGY ; FIRE ; Mitten ; Montana ; MOUNTAIN ; Nickname ; Scar ; SHAPE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Environmental Factor
Background and Environmental Factors:
Bottle Pinnacle, Wyoming - rare name - named for its shape.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; American Place Names
Keyword(s): Background ; Bottle ; ENVIRONMENT ; ETYMOLOGY ; Nickname ; Pinnacle ; REGIONAL ; SHAPE ; Topographical ; Wyoming
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
Expression
To Feather Your Nest means to make your life comfortable.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ;
Keyword(s): Comfortable ; Expression ; Feather ; Language ; LIFE ; Nest ; SLANG
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Expression
Gesundheit and God Bless You when you sneeze.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Expressions ; GERMAN ; Gezundheit ; God Bless ; Language ; SNEEZE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Language
American Nicknames:
Mexicans call Americans "gringoes" because when the Texans went into the Battle of San Jacinto, they were singing "Green Grow the Lilacs." The Mexicans thought they were saying "gringo."
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): AMERICAN ; Battle ; Culture ; ETYMOLOGY ; Green ; Gringo ; Grow ; Language ; Lilacs ; Mexican ; NATIONALITY ; Nickname ; San Jacinto ; SLANG ; SONG ; Term
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
IT'S BAD LUCK TO PAINT YOUR FINGERNAILS ON THURSDAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MOUNT PLEASANT
Date learned: 07-21-1968
PROVERB
YOU SHOULDN'T CRY OVER SPILT MILK.
Submitter comment:
THIS MEANS YOU SHOULDN'T LOOK BACK AT OR FEEL BAD ABOUT
WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-23-1972
IF YOU WIN IN BASEBALL, DON'T WASH YOUR SOCKS BEFORE THE
NEXT GAME, FOR GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MOUNT PLEASANT
| Subject headings: | 881 Games / Pastimes / Sports BELIEF -- Home BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion |
Date learned: 07-21-1968
TO REMOVE A WART, PLANT THREE PIECES OF CEDAR WOOD. IF
THE WOOD TAKES ROOT THE WART WILL LEAVE.
Submitter comment: FOLK REMEDIES IN TENNESSEE
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; WHILE TRAVELING
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00001940S
IF YOU FORGET SOMETHING WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO SOMEWHERE AND
YOU GO BACK TO GET IT, YOU HAVE TO SPIT BEHIND YOU FOR GOOD
LUCK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MOUNT PLEASANT
Date learned: 07-21-1968
IT'S BAD LUCK TO WALK WITH ONE SHOE ON AND ONE SHOE OFF.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MOUNT PLEASANT
Date learned: 07-21-1968
ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL IN JACKSON, TENNESSEE USED TO BE TAUGHT BY
THE DOMINICAN SISTERS OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. THIS NEGRO
SCHOOL HAS SINCE BEEN CLOSED.
THEY WERE HAVING A PLAY ONE DAY AND ONE OF THE BOYS NEEDED A
COAT SO THAT HE WOULD LOOK THE PART OF AN ADULT. IT WAS TIME
FOR THE PLAY AND THIS BOY HAD NOT SHOWN UP. THEY WAITED AND
WAITED, BUT HE DIDN'T COME. FINALLY, HE ARRIVED AND THE
SISTER ASKED HIM WHY HE HAD TAKEN SO LONG. HE SAID THAT
THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD A COAT WAS HIS BROTHER, AND HE HAD HAD
BAD LUCK AND AS SOON AS HE WOULD PUT ON THE COAT HE
WOULD HAVE BAD LUCK TOO, AND IT WOULD MAKE HIM MAKE A
MISTAKE WITH HIS LINES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; JACKSON
| Subject headings: | DRAMA -- D000 BELIEF -- Bad luck Clothing (dress, hat, shoes, suit, etc.) |
Date learned: 08-00-1968
IT'S BAD LUCK TO CUT YOUR TOENAILS ON SUNDAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; MOUNT PLEASANT
Date learned: 07-21-1968