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You Appalachian folks will understand
Kevin_L
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Appalachian Mountain folk don't need no weatherman. The wooly worm knows all….
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I watch Donnie laws a lot i found his site some years ago while looking for Tennessee stories
He does a lot of stories from the area my parents and their families grew up in and some still live there
I like watching him as all his stories hit home with me
Some of the smaller places are long gone that were basic coal camps or tiny vilages
He is a Good old boy and story teller
Also Ex coal miner and loves the mountains
I understand his wife has a youtube channel verysimilar but I have not looked it up
If you have a few minutes vist his youtube channel
If you had and old wife, you'd do well to listen to her.
We don't plant garden until the trees are green half way up the mountain.
Can you guess why that is?
Because you live half way up the mountain. Don
Don wins!
I moved up to the Appalachian Mountains from central Georgia. I built my log cabin 3/4 mile up a steep dirt/gravel driveway. We found a local guy who had a tractor and we needed him to scrape the driveway. Don said he couldn't do it that day, because the moon wasn't right. He had to have a full moon in order to work with the dirt. Some Appalachian myth or superstition.
We waited a week, the moon became full, and it rained for 4 days solid, so he couldn't work in the rain. By the time the rain stopped, the moon was no longer full, and he couldn't do the work. That driveway job got delayed at least 5 weeks, it was weird.
Don told us that the same thing applied when planting corn. You only could plant corn when there was a full moon, otherwise the crop would fail. Don and all these locals are of Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry, just like me. But I didn't grow up in the Appalachian Mountains, I missed out on all the folk tales.
When I wasvery young 6 or 7 yrs old Maybe 8
My grandmother on moms side use to tell us kids so many stories and legends even some in song form
I barley remember I wish I had have been older to understand and remember the stories of days gone by
It use to be a way to pass down info thru the family and pas along tragic stories
Along with home remidies made from commom and a bit strange ingredients of course
What was the hurry?
Mecca aho aheeba
Grandma said, "If a bird taps at the window there will be a death in the household." Living at the edge of the woods as I do, it happens here every spring and nobody dies. It just means they are seeing their reflection, and think it is another bird encroaching on their territory that needs to be fought off.😄 I've had cardinals leave blood smeared on my SUV mirror from fighting their reflections.
Crazy birds peck the heck out of out side porch window and as far as I know the death number in our community has not increased at all.
Think another folk saying is if corn has a heavier than normal shuck it is going to be a colder than normal winter. Don't think I saw that on the list.