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METHOD OF CURING WARTS
TO MAKE WARTS GO AWAY WASH THEM IN STUMP WATER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HOHENWALD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-11-1972
WART CURE
FIND A PERSIMMON WATER SPROUT AND CUT ONE NOTCH IN IT FOR EACH
WART YOU HAVE. PUT THE SWITCH UNDER THE HOUSE AND YOUR WARTS
WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HOHENWALD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-11-1972
REMEDY
CATNIP TEA OR BULL NETTLE TEA GIVEN TO A BABY WILL MAKE THE HIVES
BREAK OUT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HOHENWALD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 06-11-1972
REMEDY
ROAST ONION JUICE WILL CURE A BABY'S COLIC.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HOHENWALD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
REMEDY
DRINK SHEEP BALL TEA TO MAKE MEASLES BREAK OUT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HOHENWALD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 06-11-1972
IT'S CONSIDERED BAD LUCK TO BURN AN APPLE TREE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; CREATIVE WRITING CLASS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Bad luck Plants |
Date learned: 04-28-1969
MRS. CROCKER BELIEVES THAT IF ONE SEES A LIGHT IN AN ORCHARD
AT NIGHT TIME, IT SIGNIFIES A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; BRADFORD
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 07-00-1968
IF COWS BELLOW IN THE EVENING, IT IS A SURE SIGN OF SNOW
BEFORE MORNING.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; BRADFORD
Date learned: 07-00-1968
GRAVEYARD MARKER
IN MEMORY OF/ MOSES STEVENS/ BORN AT/ ANDOVER MASS./ OCTOBER 1ST.
1790/ DIED AT/ NASHVILLE, TENN./ MARCH 1ST. 1841/ ERECTED/ BY
THE/ GRAND LODGE OF TENN./ AND THE/ GRAND R.A. CHAPTER OF
TENN./ IN COMMEMORATION OF/ MOSES STEVENS/ WHO FOR MANY YEARS
FILLED/ THE OFFICE OF/ GRAND SECRETARY/ WITH SIGNAL FIDELITY/
AND INTEGRITY AND/ WHOSE PRIVATE VIRTUE/ ENDEARED HIM TO THE/
FRATERNITY.
A.L. 5841 A.D. 1841
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
BELIEF
TO FRIGHTEN OFF BIRDS FROM YOUR GARDEN, PLACE A
LENGTH OF GARDEN HOSE IN IT AND THEY WILL THINK
IT'S A SNAKE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CLASS ASSIGNMENT ; NASHVILLE ; PEABODY COLLEGE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: 03-07-1969
IF YOU DROP A PIECE OF FLAT-WEAR (TABLE SILVER) YOU ARE
GOING TO HAVE COMPANY.
Submitter comment: HE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE HAD HEARD IT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 00001968 SUMMER
BELIEF (CUSTOM)
THE MIDWIFE PUTS AN AXE UNDER THE BED OF A LABORING
WOMAN TO "CUT THE PAINS" OF CHILDBIRTH.
Submitter comment: THIS IS A CUSTOM OF THE BAHAMA NEGROES IN THE
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; FLORIDA ; BAHAMAS ; NASHVILLE ; MIAMI ; PEABODY LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 05-09-1969
PUT ASPHIDITY INTO SMALL CLOTH BAGS AND HANG FROM THE NECK.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; COOKEVILLE
Keyword(s): AILMENT ; Asphidity ; Bag ; Cloth ; CURE ; NECK ; Necklace ; REMEDY ; talisman
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 07-01-1973
AT OLIVET COLLEGE, THE HAZING OF ADELPHIC FRATERNITY
PLEDGES WAS SUPPOSEDLY THE MIDWEST'S ROUGHEST. SOME
OF HELL NIGHT'S PRANKS:
BLINDFOLDED PLEDGE PICKS UP BANANA IN TOILET.
BLINDFOLDED PLEDGE HAS ENCASED SHAVER (ELECTRIC)
DRAWN OVER DIFFERENT HAIRY PARTS OF BODY AND HAIR IS
DROPPED TO SIMULATE ACTUAL SHAVING.
BLINDFOLDED, EATING ALLUM-STUFFED PICKLES, OLIVES, ETC.
FORCING REGURGITATION.
BLINDFOLDED, NUDE PLEDGE STANDING IN SIX INCHES OF ICE
WATER HAS HOT WAX DRIPPED ON HIM.
SINGING FRATERNITY AND SCHOOL SONGS IN UNDERPANTS AND
SHOES ONLY (SNOW ON GROUND) IN FRONT OF GIRL'S DORM.
HAVING TO RECITE PLEDGE RULES IN ORDER WHILE LAYING
NUDE IN SIX INCHES OF ICE WATER, WHILE FRAT MEMBERS
DROPPED RAW EGGS FROM BALCONY INTO MOUTH OF RECITER.
THERE ARE MORE, BUT THEY'RE SADISTIC, SOME CAUSING
THREE OUT OF APPROXIMATELY 30 TO QUIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BIRMINGHAM ; TENNESSEE ; CHATANOOGA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing |
Date learned: 12-00-1971 ; 00-00-1958 ; 00001950S
THE BOYS I PLAYED BASEBALL WITH AND I, OFTEN DUPED
A NEW PLAYER INTO BELIEVING THAT THERE WERE LEFT-
HANDED AND RIGHT-HANDED BASEBALL BATS. I NOTED THE
SAME JOKE IN AAA PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL IN CHATANOOGA,
TENNESSEE IN 1958 PLAYED ON A MUCH OLDER FELLOW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BIRMINGHAM ; TENNESSEE ; CHATANOOGA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Foundation rite Laying of cornerstone |
Date learned: 12-00-1971 ; 00-00-1958 ; 00001950S
THERE ARE TWO TEAMS OF GIRLS WHO LINE UP FACING EACH OTHER. ONE
TEAM SKIPS TOWARD THE OTHER SAYING:
"BUM, BUM, BUM,
HERE WE COME."
THE OTHER TEAM ASKS:
"WHERE YOU FROM?"
ANSWER: "PRETTY GIRL STATION."
QUESTION: "WHAT'S YOUR OCCUPATION?"
ANSWER: "ANYTHING OLD THING."
THIS SIDE PANTOMIMES AN OCCUPATION, WHICH THE OTHER SIDE GUESSES.
THEN THEY REVERSE SIDES.
Submitter comment: PLAYED BY MYSELF AND GIRLS FROM MIDDLE AND EASTERN TENNESSEE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750.523 |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
FESTIVAL-MUSIC
THE UPPER CUMBERLAND FIDDLERS' CONVENTION AND FOLK COUNTY
FIDDLERS' JAMBOREE AND CONTESTS WERE HELD AT THE DEKALB COUNTY
COURTHOUSE. THIS IS AN ANNUAL EVENT HELD IN DIFFERENT PLACES EACH
YEAR. THE COMPETITION BROUGHT MUSICIANS FROM AS FAR AS KANSAS,
GEORGIA, AND OHIO. THERE WERE 14 CATEGORIES OF COMPETITION
INCLUDING THE FIDDLERS' SOLO WHICH HAD 40 ENTRIES. THE COMPETITION
STARTED THAT MORNING AND ENDED AT 2 A.M. SUNDAY MORNING. IT WAS A
UNIQUE EXPERIENCE FOR ME AND EVEN MORE INTERESTING FOR A MUSICIAN
WHO COULD REALLY APPRECIATE THE SKILL OF THE PLAYERS, NONE OF
WHOM WERE PROFESSIONAL. PEOPLE IN THE CROWD KEPT COMMENTING THAT
"THIS IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE GRAND OLD OPRY!" THAT THEY HOLD IN
VERY HIGH REGARD. SINCE I'VE ATTENTED THE OPRY SEVERAL TIMES, I CA
SAY THAT I'D MUCH RATHER GO TO A FIDDLERS' CONVENTION ANY DAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SMITHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Festival |
Date learned: 07-01-1972
IT IS BAD LUCK TO GO IN ONE DOOR AND OUT ANOTHER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE, ASSUMED ; FRANKLIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck Leaving Entering Returning home Travel |
Date learned: 08-08-1968
GRAVEYARD MARKER
JOHN SOMMERVILLE BORN AT YORK PENN. JUNE 25TH 1788
DIED AT NASHVILLE APRIL 26TH 1846
HE REMOVED TO NASHVILLE IN 1799
IN THE VARIOUS BANKS OF WHICH CITY
FROM 1812 TO HIS DEATH HE
SUCCESSIVELY FILLED THE OFFICES OF
CLERK, TELLER, CASHIER, AND PRESIDENT.
THE DUTIES OF THESE OFFICES HE
DISCHARGED WITH A FIDELITY THAT
NEVER FALTERED AND AN INTEGRITY
WHICH WAS ABOVE THE REACH OF TEMPTATION.
HE HAS LEFT A NAME
THE MEMORY OF WHICH WILL LONG
BE CHERISHED BY HIS FAMILY
AND FRIENDS
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
GRAVEYARD MARKER
IN MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CAMPBELL THE SON OF
DR. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL AND ELIZABETH MC KAY HIS WIFE.
WHO IMMAGRATED TO NORTH CAROLINA IN THE YEAR 1772
HE WAS BORN IN THE PARISH OF TONGUE SUTHERLANDSHIRE
SCOTLAND ON THE 9TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1769. WAS GRADUATED
AT PRINCETON COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY IN 1794 AND BECAME A MEMBER
OF THE KNOXVILLE BR IN 1798. FROM THE YEAR 1803 DURING SIX
YEARS HE WAS REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS OF THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF TENN. AND WAS THEN CHOSEN A JUDGE OF THE SUPREME
COURT OF ERRORS AND APPEALS ELECTED IN 1811 A SENATOR IN
CONGRESS FROM TENN. HE SERVED UNTIL 1814 WHEN HE WAS
APPOINTED SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY BY MR. MADISON. HAVING
RESIGNED THAT OFFICE THE NEXT YEAR HE WAS REELECTED TO THE
SENATE IN 1816 AND APPOINTED MINISTER TO RUSSIA IN 1818.
IN WHICH CAPACITY HE SERVED TWO YEARS. BY APPOINTMENT OF
GENERAL JACKSON IN 1832 HE SERVED AS ONE OF THREE COMMISSION-
ERS TO SETTLE CLAIMS UNDER THE TREATY OF INDEMNITY THEN LATELY
MADE WITH FRANCE.
HE DIED IN NASHVILLE ON THE 17TH FEBRUARY 1848
Submitter comment: THE OTHER GRAVES IN THIS PLOT ARE THOSE OF HIS FAMILY.--S.R.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Shrine Memorial BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1972