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IF YOU DREAM OF BROKEN EGGS, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.
IF YOU DREAM OF GOOD EGGS, YOU WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Dreams Food and liquids BELIEF -- Good luck P881.88 BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.88 |
Date learned: 08-13-1968
SIGN OF DEATH
IF YOU HEAR A HEN CROW BEFORE BREAKFAST, IT IS A SIGN OF DEATH.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- P74 P74.84 |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
PROVERB
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
BASKETBALL-HEAD
THERE WAS A BOY WHO WAS DRIVING NEAR
JAFFREY, NEW HAMPSHIRE. HE HAD AN ACCIDENT
AND WENT THROUGH THE WINDSHILE OF THE CAR
AND LOST HALF OF HIS BODY, FROM THE WAIST
DOWN. HE WALKS AROUND LEAVING BLOODY
HAND PRINTS, AND HE STRANGLES PEOPLE. HE
IS VERY STRONG AND HAS A VERY LARGE HEAD,
HENCE THE NAME "BASKETBALL-HEAD."
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; CAMP MONADNOCK ; JAFFREY CENTER
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Physically handicapped Deformed |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
PROVERB: LONGEVITY OF A CAT
A CAT HAS NINE LIVES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
GLASS HOUSES
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN'T THROW STONES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 08-13-1968
BLOOD
SULPHUR AND MOLASSES IS GOOD FOR THE BLOOD.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
DRINK SASSAPHRAS TEA IN FEBRUARY TO THIN THE BLOOD.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
HOW TO BLEED PEOPLE
PUT LEECHES ON PEOPLE TO BLEED THEM.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
NOT GIVEN
HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS BEST.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 08-13-1968
IF YOU SEE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF BUZZARDS THIS MEANS SOMETHING.
ONE FOR A SORROW, 2 FOR JOY, 3 FOR A LETTER AND 4 FOR A BOY.
DON'T KNOW WHAT COMES BETWEEN THERE AND 8, (BUT) 8 IS A SIGN
OF DEATH.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number To specific numbers |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
LENT
MOST FAMILIES HAVE A LOT OF SOUP DURING LENT IN PLACE OF MEATS.
ACQUIRED THIS EVERY LENT.
Where learned: OSGOOD ROAD, ASSUMED ; MILFORD ; NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): ABSTINENCE ; FOOD CUSTOM ; SELF-SACRIFICE
| Subject headings: | 663 Lent |
Date learned: 08-00-1967
MODERN SAYING
"FLUNK NOW, AND AVOID THE JUNE RUSH."
Submitter comment: LEARNED IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
Keyword(s): SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 08-00-1967
HAMPTON BEACH, HAMPTON NEW HAMPSHIRE
ON HAMPTON BEACH, NEAR THE BOAR'S HEAD, IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SITE
OF THE GRAVE OF LIEF ERICKSON'S FATHER, ERIC THE RED, WHO DIED ON
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COAST A FEW HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS.
Submitter comment:
I LEARNED THIS THROUGH GOING TO HAMPTON BEACH EVERY SUMMER SINCE
I WAS SIX.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero |
Date learned: 11-01-1967
APPLE ORCHARDS
IN MILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, WE LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT OUR ABUNDANT
APPLE ORCHARDS WERE PLANTED BY JOHNNY APPLESEED. THOUGH THIS IS
A LEGEND, IT MIGHT HAVE SOME TRUTH, SINCE JOHNNY APPLESEED WAS
BORN AROUND LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, WHICH IS NOT TOO FAR FROM
MILFORD.
Submitter comment: I LEARNED THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero |
BURIED TREASURE
NEAR NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, CAPTAIN KIDD IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE
BURIED A TREASURE AND LEFT A DEAD PIRATE TO GUARD IT. AND IT IS
SAID THAT HIS SHIP CAN BE SEEN COMING UP THE INLET RIVER TO SEE IF
THE LOOT IS SECURE. ONCE CONVINCED THAT THE TREASURE IS SECURE,
THE CAPTAIN AND HIS SHIP LEAVE.
Submitter comment:
I HEARD THIS FROM EDWARD ROSE SNOW ON THE RADIO PROGRAM "CONTACT,"
WBZ-RADIO.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate |
LEGEND OF OCEAN-BORN MARY
THERE IS A HOUSE NEAR HENNIKER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, THAT IS THE SITE OF
THE LEGEND OF OCEAN-BORN MARY. THE STORY GOES THAT A SHIP OF IMMI-
GRANTS FROM ENGLAND WAS STOPPED BY PIRATES OFF THE MASSACHUSETTS
COAST. THE PIRATE CAPTAIN HEARD THE WAIL OF A BABY, AND HE
DEMANDED TO SEE THE CHILD. LEARNING THAT THE CHILD WAS UNNAMED, HE
ASKED IF HE COULD NAME IT, BECAUSE IF HE COULD, THEN NO HARM COULD
BEFALL THE SHIP. IT WAS AGREED, AND THE CHILD WAS NAMED MARY.
MARY WAS BROUGHT UP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND HAD FOUR CHILDREN, WHO
LIVED NEAR HER.
THE PIRATE CAPTAIN, IN HIS OLD AGE, CAME BACK TO HENNIKER TO SETTLE
AND TO BE NEAR MARY.
THE LEGEND IS THAT ONE NIGHT, THE CAPTAIN BURIED A TREASURE CHEST
NEAR THE HOUSE. MARY, WHO WAS MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE, NEVER
REVEALED THE SECRET WHEREABOUTS OF THE TREASURE AND DIED OF OLD
AGE. TODAY, PEOPLE SAY THE PLACE IS HAUNTED AND THAT EVERY SPRING
AFTER THE HEAVY RAINS, GOLD PIECES CAN BE FOUND IN THE MUD. BUT
NO ONE HAS FOUND THE CHEST.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate |
OAK ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA
ON THIS ISLAND, THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE IMMENSE TREASURE. MANY
PROSPECTORS HAVE TRIED TO FIND IT BY BUILDING MINING SHAFTS. AT
ONE TIME, THE PROSPECTORS HIT A SLAB OF WOOD AND FOUND SOME GOLD.
BUT SINCE THEN, THE PROSPECTORS HAVE HAD BAD LUCK, THEIR SHAFTS
HAVE MYSTERIOUSLY FLOODED AND NO GOLD HAS TURNED UP. IN ADDITION,
THERE HAVE BEEN INCIDENTS OF CRIME ON THE ISLAND, (AND) A FEW
PROSPECTORS HAVE EVEN BEEN KILLED.
Submitter comment: I READ THIS IN "TRUE" MAGAZINE A FEW YEARS BACK.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Metal Stone Bone Gold Silver Copper BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-13-1967
NEW HAMPSHIRE'S WHITE MOUNTAINS
NEW HAMPSHIRE'S WHITE MOUNTAINS GOT THE NAME OF WHITE MOUNTAINS
BECAUSE OF THE CRYSTALS FOUND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS AND THE
BRILLIANCE OF THE CRYSTALS GAVE THE IMPRESSION OF WHITENESS.
Submitter comment:
I PICKED THIS UP IN A BARBER SHOP NEAR THE WHITE MOUNTAINS ONE
SUMMER.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |
SAUHEGAN RIVER, MILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE
THIS RIVER THAT RUNS THROUGH MILFORD HAS A LEGEND THAT GOES LIKE
THIS: AN INDIAN WHO WAS HUNTING FOR HIS PIGS BY A RIVER SLIPPED
AND SCARED THEM AWAY. FROM THIS ACTION HE EXCLAIMED, "SCAW-HE-
GONE." (NOW KNOWN AS SOUHEGAN.)
Submitter comment: I LEARNED THIS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS WITH WHOM I GREW UP.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
Keyword(s): SOW?
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Explanation of a name |