Form of Folklore: Folk Belief (Protection) Informant Bio: The informant was born in Yerevan, Armenia, where she attended a Russian school. At the age of fourteen she and her family moved to America, where she was formally introduce to the English language and had to continue going to a school where the primary language was… Continue Reading »
My informant grew up in Italy, where there was a tradition that on someone’s birthday, his friends would pull on his ears once for each year he was old. He speculated that this could be because of a belief that the ears are associated with memory and so pulling them might make one better remember… Continue Reading »
Whenever your ear itches, it mean’s someone is either saying good things about your or bad things about you, depending on which side of your ear itches. Specifically when your left ear itches, bad things are being said; when your right ear itches, good things are being said. My informant’s mother told her this… Continue Reading »
The informant learned the following proverb from his father: You cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear. The informant interprets it to mean that you cant, you know, you cant produce greatness out of nothing. No, you have to have the basic ingredients to create what you are attempting to make. The… Continue Reading »