Proverbs/superstitions.

[Rankin, Robert L]

That's a great field work story! Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is certainly the
way those things stay alive.

Bob

>I actually experienced this one.  The very first Wichita text I ever
recorded was a winter story told in the summer; the speaker laughed
about
the superstition at the time.  But when the lady went home that very
same
day she discovered a giant bull snake behind her bread box in the
kitchen.
Needless to say, I never got another winter story in the summer.