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BELIEF
MR. SOBCZOK SAID HE LIVED NEXT TO THIS LADY AND SHE BELIEVED
THAT FISH AND FROGS FELL FROM THE CLOUDS AFTER A HEAVY RAIN.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Creation and Order of Animal Life |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A SPECK OF DIRT ON THE YOLK OF EGGS SHOWS THAT A MALE CHICK WILL
BE HATCHED FROM IT.
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Bird |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CRICKET
IF YOU KILL A CRICKET, IT WILL COME IN THE NIGHT AND EAT HOLES IN
YOUR CLOTHES.
Submitter comment:
I CAN REMEMBER AS A CHILD, BELIEVING THIS TO THE POINT WHERE I
STAYED UP GUARDING MY CLOSET ALL NIGHT FROM THE ONSLAUGHT OF A
PREVIOUSLY KILLED CRICKET.
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Insect |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
FISH
FISH IS BRAIN FOOD.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Fish |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
RIDDLE
Q: WHAT HAS ONE EYE BUT CANNOT SEE?
A: A NEEDLE.
Keyword(s): ACTIONS (Q) ; NOTION ITEMS (A) ; PARTS OF THE BODY (Q)
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- True Riddle |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
RIDDLE
Q: A RIDDLE, A RIDDLE, AS I SUPPOSE, / A HUNDRED EYES, AND NEVER
A NOSE.
A: POTATO.
Submitter comment: I WAS ASKED THIS RIDDLE AS A YOUNGSTER AT A BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Keyword(s): EATABLES AND DRINKS (A) ; PARTS OF THE BODY (Q) ; PRIVATIONAL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Riddle True Riddle |
Date learned: 00-00-1946
STAR BELIEF
MAKE A WISH ON THE FIRST STAR THAT YOU SEE AT NIGHT.
SAYING, 'STAR BRIGHT, STAR LIGHT, THE FIRST STAR THAT I SEE TONIGHT
I WISH IT MAY, I WISH IT MIGHT, I WISH MY WISH COMES TRUE TONIGHT.
| Subject headings: | 686 686.1 BELIEF -- Star BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Use of Object P860.642 |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
BLEEDING HEART
IF YOU TAKE APART A BLEEDING HEART BLOSSOM IN FULL BLOOM
YOU WILL GET 2 RABBITS, 2 CLIPPERS, 2 EARRINGS, AND A BOTTLE.
Submitter comment:
PARTS OF THE FLOWER RESEMBLE THESE THINGS
SAYS COLLECTOR
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. 686 Seconds / Twice / Two BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
DOGWOOD BELIEF
THE RED MARKS ON EACH OF THE FOUR PETALS OF THE DOGWOOD FLOWER
ARE CALLED BLOODSPOTS BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT THE PASSION MARKS
OF CHRIST.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Plant SPEECH -- Folk etymology SPEECH -- Folk Name for Plant |
Date learned: 11-12-1969
FRUIT BELIEF
IF YOU SWALLOW A GRAPEFRUIT OR ORANGE SEEDS, IT WILL GROW IN YOUR
STOMACH.
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Plant food Fruit BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
NEW WALLET
IF YOU GIVE A PURSE OR WALLET TO SOMEONE, PUT A PENNY
IN IT TO ASSURE THE RECEIVER NEVER GOES BROKE.
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
LEGEND OF THE MAD MAN.
IN MY CHILDHOOD, I SPENT TWO WEEKS AT THE BOYS SUMMER CLUB CAMP
FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS. EVERY STAY WAS OCCASIONED BY THE
RUMOR THAT IT WAS NOT SAFE TO WALK IN CAMP ALONE AT NIGHT.
THIS WAS SAID BECAUSE A MAN HAD ESCAPED FROM A NEARBY MENTAL
INSTITUTION OR JAIL, (IT VARIED) AND DIDN
James Callow comment: INCOMPLETE ITEM
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB IN VERSE
NA SW GRZEGORZA POJDZIE ZIMI DO MORZA (POLISH)
ON THE FEAST OF ST. GREGORY THE WINTER GOES TO THE SEA.
Data entry tech comment:
ORIGINAL 5 X 8 CARD CONTAINS POLISH TEXT
TRANSLATED BY MRS K J UNIECHOWSKI
Keyword(s): WEATHER PROVERB
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- March 12 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May 25 BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
BLASON POPULAIRE
AN OPTIMIST LOOKS AT A DONUT AND SEES THE DONUT, A PESSIMIST
SEES THE HOLE.
Submitter comment: I WAS REMINDED OF THIS MANY TIMES AS A YOUNG GIRL.
Keyword(s): DEFINITION
James Callow Keyword(s): SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: 00-00-1951
LENTEN BIBLE
DURING LENT, EVERYNIGHT MY FATHER HAD US CHILDREN, EACH TAKING
TURNS, READING ALOUD TO THE ENTIRE FAMILY FROM THE BIBLE OR FROM OUR
BIBLE HISTORY FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR.
Keyword(s): SPIRITUAL READING
| Subject headings: | 663 Lent BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
GOOD FRIDAY IS REGARDED AS A GOOD DAY FOR PLANTING POTATOES AND PEAS.
Data entry tech comment: THIS SEEMS TO BE BECAUSE CHRIST CONSECRATED THE SOIL WITH HIS BURIAL.
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
BLACK FAST
ON GOOD FRIDAY, THE GROWN-UPS REALLY OBSERVED THE "BLACK FAST". THEY
ATE ONLY DARK BREAD AND BLACK COFFEE. THE CHILDREN HAD MILK, ( ; )
WE WERE NOT REALLY HUNGRY BUT HAD MEAGER MEALS.
Keyword(s): SELF-SACRIFICE--FASTING
| Subject headings: | 663 Good Friday |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
EASTER CUSTOM
A TRADITION WE WOULD TAKE PART IN AT EASTER WAS THAT THE HEAD OF THE
FAMILY WOULD CUT A BLESSED EGG APART INTO AS MANY PIECES AS MEMBERS
OF HIS FAMILY. EACH WOULD TAKE A PIECE AND WOULD WISH THE BEST AND
FINEST HE COULD THINK OF TO THE REST OF THE FAMILY.
Keyword(s): FAMILY UNITY ; FOOD CUSTOM
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter eggs CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
PROVERB
"ROLL ON THE GROUND ON ST. GEORGE'S DAY (APRIL 23) AND YOU WILL
BE HEALTHY AND STRONG."
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- April 23 BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NO DATE INDICATED.
WWIELU OKOLICACH POLSKI PANIYE WSROE LUDU PRZEKONAMIE, ZE NIE
NALEZY KAPAC SIE IV RZECE LUB JEZIORZE PRZED DNIEM SIV. JANA
ZAKAZ DOTYCZY SPRAWY BEZ POROWNINIA WAZNIEJSZEJ USWIECENIA WODY.
THERE EXISTS IN MANY VILLAGES IN POLAND THIS BELIEF THAT NO ONE IS
TO GO SWIMMING INTO THE LAKES OR POOLS BEFORE THE FEAST OF ST. JOHN.
IT IS BELIEVED THAT WITH THIS FEAST THE WATER IS BLESSED.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- June 24 St. John's Day / Midsummer Day BELIEF -- Water BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |