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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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RIDDLE
QUESTION: HOW CAN THREE FAT LADIES FIT UNDER ONE UMBRELLA?
ANSWER: WHEN IT'S NOT RAINING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): RAINING (A) ; UMBRELLA (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 09-00-1965
IN LOVE, THERE IS ALWAYS ONE WHO KISSES AND ONE WHO OFFERS THE CHEEK
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM ; COLLECTORS HOME
Keyword(s): METAPHOR ; OBSERVATION ; REPETITION
James Callow Keyword(s): LEADING AND FOLLOWING AMONG LOVERS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 04-05-1971
IRISH SUPERSTITION
IF YOU WASH YOUR FACE IN DEW ON THE FIRST
DAY OF MAY, YOU WILL BE BEAUTIFUL.
Submitter comment:
IN TELLING THIS, THE INFORMANT RECALLS ACTUALLY
WASHING HER FACE IN DEW ON MAY 1ST, AND ENDING
UP WITH A TERRIBLE RASH AND A FEW VISITS TO
A DERMATOLOGIST.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): BAD RESULTS FROM SUPERSTITIOUS PRACTICE ; IRONY ; SKIN
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May 1 May Day |
Date learned: 09-23-1969
PROVERB
IF YOU CAN'T FIND TIME TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT,HOW ARE YOU GOING
TO FIND TIME TO DO IT OVE.
Submitter comment: SOURCE NOT KNOWN.
Data entry tech comment:
GOOD ADVICE TO PEOPLE WHO NEED TO TAKE THINGS AT A SLOWER PACE,AND
TAKE TIME TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.
Where learned: HOME ; BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): RHETORICAL QUESTION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-15-1967
ARTHRITIS
WOMEN WILL WEAR A COPPER BRACELET TO RELIEVE THEMSELVES OF ARTHRITIS.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 03-17-1971
WHEN A MILITARY SHIP SINKS, A WREATH IS PLACED ON IT FOR
PRESERVATION OF IT.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F535 |
Date learned: 03-22-1971
SHERLOCK HOLMES RIDDLE
SHERLOCK HOLMES DIES AND GOES TO HEAVEN AND SAINT PETER
WANTS TO FIND OUT IF THIS GUY WAS REALLY THE FAMOUS SHERLOCK
HOLMES. SO HE LINES UP EVERYONE IN HEAVEN (THEY ARE ALL NUDE)
AND ASKS HIM TO PICK OUT ADAM AND EVE. SHERLOCK SAYS, "THOSE
TWO". HOW DID HE KNOW?
-- ADAM AND EVE DID NOT HAVE ANY NAVELS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TOLD AT COLLECTORS HOME ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): BELLY BUTTON
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE RULES THE WORLD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM ; TOLD AT HIS HOME
Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; MOTHERHOOD
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-21-1971
DUMB, DUMB DODO, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN./ I CAN RUN FASTER THAN ---CAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TOLD AT HOME ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): CALL-RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-02-1969
RIDDLE
IF 2 IS COMPANY AND 3 IS A CROWD, WHAT'S 4 AND 5?
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Where learned: BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): CATCH
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-01-1967
RIDDLE
WHAT DOES A PAINTER SAY TO THE WALL?
ONE MORE CRACK AND I'LL PLASTER YOU.
Where learned: BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): PUN
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-20-1967
RIDDLE
WHY DOES THE LIGHT TURN RED?
WOULDN'T YOU IF EVERYONE WAS STARING AT YOU?
Where learned: BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): COLOR
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-10-1967
RIDDLE
HOW DID KATY WINTERS DIE?
FROZEN ARMPITS
Where learned: BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): ADVERTISEMENT FICTIONAL CHARACTER
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-10-1967
RIDDLE
HOW CAN YOU TELL A HAPPY MOTORCYCLIST?
BY THE BUGS IN HIS TEETH.
Where learned: BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-10-1967
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CHINESE FESTIVAL
CHENG YEUNG FESTIVAL IS THE "FESTIVAL OF ASCENDING HEIGHTS."
ON THE 9TH DAY OF THE 9TH MOON, LEGEND SAYS THAT THE WISE
CLIMB TO HIGH PLACES TO AVOID DISASTER.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
Keyword(s): Celebration ; Chinese ; FESTIVAL ; Heights ; Legend ; MOON
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Fixed DateFor specific dates, use the following system: BELIEF -- Human Being BELIEF -- Moon |
Date learned: 02-24-1968
Eddie Cuchie Catchie
CHORUS:
Eddie Cuchie Catchie Coma Tosa Ira Tosa Noma Soma Cama Wackie Brown
Fell into the well, fell into the well,
Fell into the deep, dark well.
Suzie Jones milking in the barn saw him fall
And ran inside to tell her mom that
CHORUS
Suzie's ma, making crackling bread told her pa
Who hobbled into town and said that
CHORUS
From the town, everybody came, what a shame
It took so long to say his name that
(sing name)
WHO?
(repeat name)
Drowned.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |
Red Ring Around Your Nose
There's a red ring around your nose,
And every day it grows and grows.
(Sung to a tune nearly identical to the first two lines of the refrain of "The Billboard March."
Submitter comment:
Informant learned somewhere between 1965 and 1968.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM ; informant's home
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Serious condemnation Scorn |
Song
Down by the station,
Early in the morning,
See the little puffer-bellies,
All in a row.
See the station master,
Turn the little handle,
Chug, chug, toot, toot,
Off we go.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |