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IT'S VERY BAD LUCK TO PLAY PIANO WHILE SOMEONE IN
THE HOUSE IS ILL, BECAUSE THIS MAY HASTEN THEIR
DEATH.
James Callow Keyword(s): MUSIC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Conversions Activities |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
AT THE SOUND OF FIRE TRUCKS, IT IS CUSTOMARY TO MAKE
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS AND PRAY FOR THOSE IN THE
FIRE.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A PREGNANT WOMAN IS NOT ALLOWED TO HOLD A CHILD IN
BAPTISM FOR FEAR HARM WILL COME TO HER OWN BABY OR TO
THE GODCHILD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OHIO ; TOLEDO ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Baptism Naming rite BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CHILDREN WERE CAUTIONED NOT TO PICK UP TOADS AS THEY
WOULD GET WARTS.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
IF YOU STEP OVER A MOP HANDLE, YOU WILL NEVER GET
MARRIED; IF YOU JUMP OVER A BROOM HANDLE, YOU WILL
MARRY.
Submitter comment:
I CAN REMEMBER AS A CHILD BEING VERY CAREFUL TO FOLLOW
THESE PRESCRIPTIONS.
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Marriage Dating Courtship |
Date learned: UNKNOWN
NEVER TAKE THE LAST PIECE OF ANYTHING ON A PLATE
OR YOU WILL BE AN OLD MAID.
Keyword(s): SPINSTER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Dating Courtship BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
YOUR DAUGHTERS WILL NOT MARRY IF PEACOCK FEATHERS ARE
KEPT IN THE HOME.
Submitter comment:
INTERESTING CONTRADICTION, SINCE THIS PERSON WON'T
EVEN ALLOW A PET BIRD (EVEN CANARY OR PARAKEET) IN
HER HOME--SHE HAS FOUR DAUGHTERS.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Dating Courtship |
Date learned: 03-20-1968
THOSE ENGAGED WITH AN EMERALD RING WILL NOT BE MARRIED.
I WAS CAUTIONED THIS BY MY MOTHER-IN-LAW AT THE TIME
WE WERE SELECTING MY ENGAGEMENT RING; SHE REALLY SEEMED
TO BELIEVE IT.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage P545.015 |
Date learned: 07-00-1966
IT IS GOOD LUCK FOR A SPIDER TO FALL ON A BRIDE AT
HER WEDDING.
Submitter comment:
SHE HAD HEARD THIS FROM A GREAT AUNT AND TOLD IT TO ME
AT THE TIME OF MY WEDDING; SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Ceremony |
Date learned: 09-01-1967
MAKE YOUR OWN WEDDING DRESS, AND YOU'LL NOT LIVE TO
WEAR IT.
Submitter comment:
I GOT THIS FROM SEVERAL SOURCES WHEN I WAS CONSIDERING
MAKING MY WEDDING GOWN; THIS GIRL MUST NOT BELIEVE IT,
HOWEVER, SINCE SHE'S MAKING HER OWN.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage Bride |
Date learned: 09-01-1968
MY MOTHER WAS DEATHLY AFRAID OF GYPSIES AND THEY USED
TO COME AROUND. SHE BELIEVED THEY HAD UNNATURAL
POWERS AND COULD PUT A CURSE ON YOU.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- P439 |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
ITEM IN A BULLETIN PUT OUT BY THE LAND AND FORESTS
DEPARTMENT OF ONTAIN, CANADA: (ONTARIO?)
THE BEST WAY TO EFFECT CAPTURE OF A PROCUPINE IS
TO WAIT UNTIL HE'S IN THE OPEN. THEN WATCHING
FOR HIS SLAPPING TAIL, RUSH IN QUICKLY AND POP A
LARGE WASTETUB OVER HIM. THUS YOU WILL HAVE
SOMETHING TO SIT ON WHILE YOU FIGURE YOUR NEXT
MOVE.
James Callow Keyword(s): HUMOR
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote BELIEF -- Mammal |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU DRY YOUR HANDS WITH ANOTHER PERSON ON THE
SAME TOWEL, SIMULTANEOUSLY, YOU WILL HAVE A
FIGHT.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
GRAMMIE NEVER ALLOWED US TO SEW ANYTHING WHILE WE
HAD IT ON. IT WOULD CAUSE ONE TO BECOME DUMB.
STUPID, THAT IS.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
MY MOTHER WOULD NEVER DO ANY CANNING WHILE SHE WAS
MENSTRUATING, BECAUSE IT WOULD SPOIL.
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Manner of preparation Preservation BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
TWO PEOPLE EACH TAKE HOLD OF ONE SIDE OF THE WISHBONE.
THEN PULL AND WHOEVER GETS THE CENTER OF THE WISH-
BONE WILL GET THEIR WISH IF THEY DON'T TELL ANYONE
WHAT IT IS. I ONCE WISHED FOR A TRIP TO DISNEYLAND
AND WE WERE OFFERED A RIDE THERE WITHIN A WEEK
AND WE WENT.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF THE CLASP OF A NECKLACE WORKS ITS WAY AROUND
TO THE FRONT NEXT TO THE PENDANT, THE WEARER IS
ENTITLED TO MAKE A WISH.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object Dress, buttons, jewelry |
Date learned: 00001964 CA.
MY GRANDMOTHER, MRS. CHARLES SUBZAK, BELIEVED THAT
WHEN THE PRIEST RAISED THE PATEN HE COULD SEE
THE PERSON OF THE PARISH WHO HAD THE DEVIL IN HIM.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object Religious objects |
A WELL KNOWN SUPERSTITION RELATES THAT IF A SINGLE
YOUNG LADY PUTS A PIECE OF WEDDING CAKE UNDER HER
PILLOW, SHE WILL DREAM OF THE MAN SHE IS TO MARRY.
Submitter comment: NON-ETHNIC
| Subject headings: | 862 Use of object for determining future spouse |
Date learned: 09-30-1968
WHEN OPENING SHOWER GIFTS, THE NUMBER OF BROKEN
RIBBONS INDICATES THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN YOU
SHOULD EXPECT TO HAVE.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS VERY PREVALENT; I HEARD IT IN TOLEDO
(OHIO), DETROIT (MICHIGAN), AND LIMA (OHIO.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of object for determining number of children or sex of unborn P863.9 |
Date learned: 09-01-1968