The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

In grade school while eating lunch in the cafeteria, I would
see children drop food on the floor. But to be sure the food
wouldn't harm them when they picked it up to eat it, they would say
a little prayer;
God made dirt so it won't hurt
Put it in your mouth and it won't work.

Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; Louise

Date learned: 00-00-1970