Fables and Folklore Req..

Subject: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Tweed
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 11:53 AM

I'm puttin' together a page of folklore, fables, and sayings and wonder if any of you have anything you'd care to add to the pile. The page is *(click) here* if you want to have a look at the beginnings. One liners are as welcome as fairly short folktales. Anyone got any good ones that have opened a door to a better way of thinking?

Tweed

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: khandu
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 11:11 PM

I like this, Tweed! I have bookmarked the page and ,as soon as I think of something that will fit, I will submit!

khandu

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Tweed
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 06:22 AM

Thanks Khandu, I was startin' to think everybody had their Tweedpost filter running;~) Send me a good one, I'll take em from any culture or country. It'll be a sort of Tweed's Blues Reader's Digest of old time wisdom and motherwit. If the saying fits, you must submit!

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Hecate
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 09:28 AM

Don't know if this is any good to you, but its an old tradition in my family to finish a toast with the line 'and may the skin of your bum never be turned into banjo strings."

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 12:14 PM

My grandmother (50 years ago), if a piece of bread, say, or a slice of apple fell on the floor, would brush it off and say, "You gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die anyway."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 12:37 PM

Tweed, member Auxiris has posted some wonderful stories here. Use the Forum Search (in the Quick Links pull down menu) to do a search on his name.

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Willa
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 03:38 PM

Uncle DaveO Mine too!
This from my Grandma too
There was once a little girl who would never say "Please"
I believe if you even went down on your knees.
She would sit at the table, taking her ease,
And speak to her mother in words such as these;
"Pass me the butter! Give me the cheese!
Get me some water! I want some peas!"
One day a wise fairy, that bad girl to tease,
Blew her away in a powerful breeze,
Down with the wasps and the ants and the bees -
And there she must stay, till she learns to say "Please"

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Tweed
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 10:53 PM

Thanks folks, I'll see what I can do with some of those. Hecate are you sure that was banjo strings and not bodhran skins? I've heard the "eat a peck of dirt before you die" saying too and also heard people mutter "kiss to the gods" and then eat the dropped morsel of whatever fell on the floor. Never figgered out why they'd say that though. Thanks for the Auxiris tip Mz.Sorchy. If you're out there Auxiris, give up a favorite tale if you like.

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Hecate
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 09:48 AM

was definitely banjo strings. I know the saying was in use in my great grandmother's family, don't know where they got it from though. Bodrahn skins would also be applicable on reflection, but it definitely wasn't the toast!

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: MMario
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 09:53 AM

10 second rule! (if it's been on the ground less then 10 seconds it's still safe to eat)

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 06:11 PM

"Moses supposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously,
For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses
As Moses supposes his toes to be!"

And also:

"The breezes, the breezes
They blow through the treeses
They blow the girls' skirtses
Above the girls' kneeses.
The college man seeses
And does what he pleases
And spreads the diseases,
Oh Jeezez, oh Jeezez!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: The Walrus
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 06:38 PM

There's many a man, both young and bold
Has been brought to his sarcophagus
Through pouring water, icy cold
Down his warm oesophagus

Here's to a Temperence supper
With water in glasses tall
And coffee and tea to finish
And me nowhere near it at all!

Both Victorian anti-Temperence pieces, I don't know if they count.

Walrus

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 07:57 PM

Feel a shiver down your spine? Someone just walked on your grave...Nana Sullivan

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 07:58 PM

Nose itch? Someone's talking about you.

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Tweed
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 08:24 PM

Keep diggin'. I'm copying and pasting as you guys go along.

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: GUEST,Just Amy
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 08:29 PM

If your ears are burning, someone is talking about you.

If your palm itches, you are coming into money.

Step on a crack, break your mother's back

Subject: RE: Fables and Folklore Req..
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 08:47 PM

If you step on a nick
You'll marry a stick
And a spider will come to your wedding

WassaiL! V