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"IF YOU DROP A KNIFE ON THE FLOOR, COMPANY WILL COME."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 11-10-1972
"THE THIRD MARRAIGE WILL BE THE LUCKY ONE."
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MARRIAGE
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Good luck P881.41 |
Date learned: 11-10-1972
"IF HORSESHOES ARE PLACED UPSIDEDOWN."
Submitter comment: BAD LUCK
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.12 |
Date learned: 11-10-1972
"IF TWO PEOPLE WALK ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF A POST, BOTH OF THEM WILL
HAVE BAD LUCK."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.1 BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.2 |
Date learned: 11-10-1972
"STEP ON A CRACK,
BREAK YOUR MOTHER'S BACK."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief |
Date learned: 11-10-1972
WHEN I WAS SMALL, AND THAT'S WHEN WE USED TO HAVE $2.00 BILLS, THEY
USED TO ALWAYS TELL YOU NOT TO TAKE IT IN CHANGE, OR IT WOULD BRING
YOU BAD LUCK."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.1 BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.2 |
"IF YOU FIND A PENNY LYING ON THE GROUND, PICK IT UP, IT'S GOOD LUCK"
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Good luck P881.15 BELIEF -- Good luck P881.2 |
Date learned: 11-10-1972
"IF YOU OPEN AN UMBRELLA IN THE HOUSE, IT WILL BRING RAIN."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 11-10-1972
"PICKING UP A PIN IS ALSO GOOD LUCK."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Good luck P881.18 |
Date learned: 11-01-1972
GANG TALK
"MY MOTHER EXPLAINED TO ME A LITTLE OF THE LANGUAGE MY DAD USED TO
USE WITH HIS BUDDIES WHEN THEY WERE SMALL. APPARENTLY IT WAS A TYPE
OF PIG LATIN IN WHICH 1. THE FIRST LETTER WAS DROPPED. 2. THE REST
OF THE WORD WAS SPOKEN, THEN 3. THE FIRST LETTER WITH A LONG "A" WAS
ADDED TO THE END. THEY WOULD CHANGE EVERY WORD IN THE CONVERSATION
IN THIS MANNER, AND WOULD TALK FAST TO CONFUSE THE 'UNEDUCATED '
LISTENER."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"I REMEMBER THAT BEFORE WE WENT TO SLEEP, WE USED TO PLAY SHADOW
GAMES WITH YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF A LIGHT, FORMING FIGURES ON THE
WALL."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Sleeping |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"ALSO THEY USED TO WEAR COPPER AROUND THEIR WRISTS ALSO."
Submitter comment: CONCERNING CURING A COLD.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS USED TO WEAR GARLIC AROUND THEIR NECKS ON A
STRING, TO HELP A COLD."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"THEY ALWAYS USED TO SAY THAT IF THERE WAS ENOUGH BLUE IN THE SKY TO
MAKE YOUR MOTHER A PETTICOAT OUT OF, THE STORM WOULD END SOON."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Matter |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
(WHEN I WAS SMALL) "WE USED TO ALSO BE TOLD THAT IF YOU KEPT A
BOTTLE OF MILK OUT IN A STORM, IT WOULD GO SOUR."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Drink from animal product Milk BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"IF A BIRD SOMEHOW GETS INTO THE HOUSE, IT'S A SURE SIGN THAT THERE
WILL BE A DEATH IN THE FAMILY."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"MY MOTHER USED TO SAY, THAT IF YOUR RHEUMATISM ACHED, A STORM WAS
COMING."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"BOB HANKS USED TO NEVER PUT HIS HAT ON A BED. HE ALWAYS THOUGHT IT
WOULD BRING HIM BAD LUCK."
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.1 |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
"I ALWAYS USED TO HEAR THAT IF YOU BURNED A CANDLE DURING A STORM,
LIGHTNING WON'T STRIKE."
Submitter comment: THE CANDLE COULD BE ALONE, OR A VOTIVE TYPE CANDLE.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 11-15-1972
POLISH SAYING
W STARYM PIECU DJABET PALI
LITERALLY AN OLD STOVE THE DEVIL BURNS
IN OTHER WORDS STILL WATER RUNS DEEP
Data entry tech comment: ORIGINAL 5 X 8 CARD CONTAINS POLISH TEXT
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-24-1971