EP 48: Butter on a Burn

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Put butter on that burn. Don't put your purse on the floor. The wives tales, sayings, superstitions & home remedies - the things we heard from our mamas, papas and grandparents are all part of our folk heritage. In this episode, we hear some, we look at why they're important, we do some fact checking, and Hana and Leila explore why we believe some of the things we believe.

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0:00.0	If you're right hand itch, you will receive money.
0:06.3	If you're left hand itch, you will pay out money.
0:10.6	If you meet a horse on the right side of the road, good luck.
0:14.7	On the left side of the road, bad luck.
0:18.1	If a child cries steadily, the things that black people say will die.
0:24.8	If you break a looking gas, you will have seven years' trouble.
0:29.8	Blackisms, superstitions, and home remedies that we've held onto.
0:36.5	And sometimes believe and sometimes the black folk remedies.
0:42.6	If the right side of your nose itch, a strange woman is coming to the house.
0:47.9	If the left side of your nose itch, a strange man is coming to the house.
0:54.2	Lila, what's the truth behind some of these things, some of these sayings?
1:00.7	Like, why do we believe them and are they true and where do they come from?
1:06.7	Like putting butter on a burn.
1:08.9	Lila, do you put butter on your burns?
1:12.3	I've been burned before but I don't put no butter on it.
1:14.7	But I do remember being slipped down with the butter on my arms when I was a kid.
1:20.2	Smooth like butter.
1:22.0	Ooh, butter, butter like butter.
1:26.4	Well, let's stoop it out.
1:27.8	If a spoon drop while you are eating, someone is coming hungry.
1:44.1	The stoop.
1:44.8	The stoop.
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