Document Type
Notes
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Date
1950
Keywords
salt, husbands and wives, marriage beliefs, weather, stretching, insects
Description
A handwritten, untitled note transcribed by Alfred L. Shoemaker dating from circa 1950. Within, some beliefs surrounding husbands and wives are noted along with other folk sayings.
Corresponds to:
Packet 410-53
Transcription
You have to eat ½ bushel of salt with your husband until you really know him
Husband and Wife surely love each other if they share with the same tooth brush. Mrs. John Smith Hickory Park
Six weeks after you heard the first Katydid you can expect the first frost
If you sit on a chair during the day and stretch yourself I heard this say hut en fowler dich ga mecked un nat gshtregt
Annie Jacobs
[illegible] work in November
Language
English and Pennsylvanian German
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Recommended Citation
Shoemaker, Alfred L., "Notes on Husbands and Wives, and Other Folk Beliefs" (1950). Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents. 130.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/130
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