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Black Cats, Hoot Owls, and Water Witches : Beliefs, Superstitions, and Sayings From Texas
author
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Davis, Kenneth W.; Gillis, Everett
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0929398068
print isbn13
:
9780929398068
ebook isbn13
:
9780585274928
language
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English
subject
Folklore--Texas, Superstition--Texas, Texas--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1989
lcc
:
GR110.T5B54 1989eb
ddc
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398/.09764
subject
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Folklore--Texas, Superstition--Texas, Texas--Social life and customs.
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Black Cats, Hoot Owls, and Water Witches
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Black Cats, Hoot Owls, and Water Witches
Beliefs, Superstitions, and Sayings from Texas
edited by Kenneth W. Davis & Everett Gillis
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Kenneth W. Davis & Everett Gillis, 1989 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Printing 1989
Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to the University of North Texas Press, P. O. Box 13856, Denton, Texas 76203-3856
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Black cats, hoot owls, and water witches : beliefs, superstitions, and sayings from Texas / edited by Kenneth W. Davis and Everett A. Gillis. p. cm. ISBN 0-929398-06-8 1. FolkloreTexas. 2. SuperstitionTexas. 3. TexasSocial life and customs. I. Davis, Kenneth W., 1932 . II. Gillis, Everett, 1914 1989. GR110.T5B54 1989 398' .09764dc 20 89-27779 CIP
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For all the Paisanos in the Texas Folklore Society
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1
Field and Farm
Moon and Stars
5
Weather Wisdom
9
Water Witching
21
Planting and GrowingCrops, Flowers, and a Goat or Two
25
Worms, Frogs, Roosters, Crickets, and Other Critters
31
Home and Hearth
Love, Marriage, Home and Children
43
Clothing
55
Health Lore
61
Ears, Eyes, and Other Body Parts
73
Departing This World, Or Heaven Can't Wait
81
Superstitions
A Grab Bag of Superstitions
91
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ILLUSTRATIONS
"Woman, Owl, and the Source of Water"
[cover]
"Pole of Relative Inaccessibility," from the suite, Some Antarctic States
ii
Detail from "Lust," from the suite, The Mote Hunter
4
Detail from "Origin of Ice," from the Suite, Some Antarctic States
8
Detail from "Woman, Owl, and the Source of Water"
20
Detail from "Origin of Ice"
24
Detail from "Pole of Relative Inaccessibility"
30
Detail from "Pole of Relative Inaccessibility"
42
"Frida's Pain"
54
Detail from "Lust," from the suite, The Mote Hunter
60
"Profanity," from the suite, The Mote Hunter
72
"Zeno's Cage"
80
Detail from "Woman, Owl, and the Source of Water"
90
Detail from "Woman, Owl, and the Source of Water"
101
Page 1
INTRODUCTION
Folklore concerns itself with everyday life as well as the world of myth. Long before daily around-the-clock weather reports became available, a West Texas housewife knew from hard-earned experience the truth of the West Texas saying: "It's bad luck to hang your clothes out on the line if there is a bank of blue haze in the west." The bad luck is, of course, what happens to freshly washed clothes still wet on the line when a dust storm hits. However, once a saying is embedded in an oral tradition, no one expects or requires specific proof to support itno more than in the case of the elderly farmer in Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," who, pressed by the speaker in the poem for a reason why there should be a wall between their properties, offered only his father's saying: ''Good fences make good neighbors."
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