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ON NEW YEAR'S DAY YOU EAT HOG JOWLS AND BLACK EYED PEAS TO
BRING GOOD LUCK DURING THE COMING YEAR.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT IS A FRIEND'S MOTHER, AND SHE CLAIMED THAT THEY
DID THIS IN ALABAMA WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALABAMA ; FERNDALE
Date learned: 00001971 SPRING
THE NUMBER OF RIBBONS THAT THE BRIDE-TO-BE BREAKS WHILE
OPENING BRIDAL SHOWER GIFTS INDICATES THE NUMBER OF
CHILDREN SHE WILL HAVE.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A WIDELY ACCEPTED IDEA FOR FUN, MAKING AT
BRIDAL SHOWERS I'VE ATTENDED IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Breaking of |
Date learned: 10-17-1967
When the New Year arrives put a spider in your purse, and you
will have money all year long.
Submitter comment:
The informant can't remember when she learned this superstition,
but she has been doing it for about 20 years.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): bugs
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Measure of time Year |
Date learned: 00001950S
It was one of the gang called little Robert Ford
Who shot Jesse James on the sly.
It was Robert Ford, that dirty coward,
I wonder how he does feel.
He ate Jesse's bread and slept in Jesse's bed
And he put Jesse James in his grave.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |
This is a cure my sister was telling me her doctor did to her.
When you have ringworm you take off your wedding band, it has
to be gold, and have someone press it firmly down in the
infected area where the ringworm shows up. Within a few days
it will clear up.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): homeopathic (ring for ringworm)
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1990
If you eat raw cookie dough then you will get worms.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1975
If you eat the seeds of a watermelon then you will grow a
watermelon plant in your belly and it will kill you.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1975
If you name your child after a witch then that child will be
a witch.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname BELIEF -- Witch Shaman |
Date learned: 00-00-1990
If the baby's heartbeat is strong while it is still inside
the mother that it is going to be a boy.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): SEX DETERMINATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1989
If the pregnant woman is grouchy then she is going to have a
girl.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): SEX DETERMINATION
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 00-00-1989
The lightning is the angels playing flashlight tag.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Racing Chasing Fighting BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
The lightning is the angels flicking on and off the light.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
When it thunders the angels are bowling.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Lightning Thunder |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
When it rains it is the angels crying.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
When it rains it is the angels taking a shower.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Angel BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
MEDIEVAL DOCTORS DEVELOPED A SPECIAL OUTFIT DESIGNED TO
PROTECT THEM FROM DIRECT CONTACT WITH SICK PEOPLE
DURING A PLAGUE. THE PHYSICIAN WAS COVERED FROM HEAD TO
FOOT WITH A BLACK GOWN, AND HE WORE LONG GLOVES TO PROTECT
HIS HANDS AND ARMS. A HOOD WAS DROPPED OVER HIS FACE.
PROTRUDING FROM THE HOOD WAS A LONG BEAK LOADED WITH
PROTECTIVE SPICES AND PERFUMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress BELIEF -- Curer |
Date learned: 10-01-1988
A RECOMMENDED PRESCRIPTION FOR EPILEPSY IN THE MIDDLE AGES:
TAKE A NAIL OF A WRECKED SHIP, MAKE IT INTO A BRACELET,
AND SET THEREIN THE HEART OF A JUST-KILLED STAG, AND PUT
THE BRACELET ON THE PATIENT'S LEFT ARM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-01-1988
DURING THE RENAISSANCE, ALCHEMISTS CONCOCTED MEDICINES
CONSISTING OF THE SPOTTED SKINS OF LIZARDS FOR MALIGNANT
TUMORS AND OF WALNUT SHELLS FOR HEAD INJURIES.
Submitter comment: THE WALNUT SHELLS RESEMBLE THE BRAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 10-01-1988
MEDIEVAL THERAPY FOR INFERTILE WOMEN CONSISTED OF DRINKS
MADE FROM MISTLETOE.
Submitter comment:
THIS RESULTED INTO TODAY'S CUSTOM OF A KISS AT CHRISTMAS
UNDER THE MISTLETOE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Mistletoe and other greenery BELIEF -- Plant SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-01-1988