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From: "Betty McCollum" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Old Wives' Tales
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 06:49:44 -0700
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MIchael:
I'm so glad you're enjoying the book, and I certainly do not mind you
quoting excerpts from it.
Betty Mc
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Subject: [ARIZARD] Old Wives' Tales


> I have heard all of my life the myth or whatever it is that if a pregnant
> woman sees a strange object like a strange creature at a circus or
something
> abnormal, that something will turn out different about her baby. Has
anyone
> else heard this? I am currently reading Betty and Sue's Down Memory Lane
Book
> 5. On page 7 of the book is something that I have heard to be the truth
also
> all of my life. My only living aunt, Dad's half sister, Aunt Eutha Dee
> Walker Burfield, 83, of Moline, Illinois, who is now suffering from
leukemia and
> two broken legs but still at home is mentioned on page 7. Aunt Eutha,
and it
> is no secret, had a birthmark when she was born to my step grandmother
Oma
> Gray Walker and grandfather Fred Walker. One side of her face was
completely
> marked red. It was so sad because when she was growing up those were the
> days of girls not wearing makeup. She graduated from Violet Hill High
School in
> 1943 before taking off for other parts of the world. Every time I have
ever
> seen her and as far back as I can remember or anyone can remember, she
has
> gotten up very early in the mornings and put a ton of makeup on to cover
her
> birthmark. As far as I know, she still even does it. It is too bad that
she
> did not have an operation to correct the mistake. This is what the book
says
> and proves my point. Her mother, by the way, always believed that
because
> she was at a circus or saw something strange while pregnant with her,
that was
> the reason for her having the birthmark. She really believed it to be
true.
> My own mother says her mother told her to be careful always when she was
> pregnant not to look at anything that could disfigure her baby.
Apparently,
> the belief was that merely by looking at the object would cause the
> disfigurement in the baby at birth. This again is a portion from Sue and
Betty's book
> on page 7 of Book 5 about my Aunt Eutha. ADDIE: ONE OF UNCLE
RICHARDSON'S
> OBIE'S (RICHARDSON) WIFE'S SISTERS HAD A GIRL THAT ON HER FACE AND DOWN
HER
> NECK WAS JUST AS RED AS A BEET, AND THAT WAS CAUSED FROM DOGS A
'FIGHTIN.' THAT
> HAPPENED WHEN AUNT OMIE WAS PREGNANT. LAST TIME I SEEN HER SHE STILL HAD
> IT.
>
> I am really enjoying your book, Betty and Sue, and I hope you did not mind
> me taking an excerpt out of it. Step Grandma Oma Walker was nearly 41
when
> she had Aunt Eutha, her only child. She was 38 when she married married
my
> grandfather Fred G. Walker in 1921 and is the reason for our side of the
Walkers
> moving back to Izard County from West Texas because of her homesickness
after
> a year out there. She raised my grandmother Palastine McMurtrey Walker's
> six children including my dad in addition to giving birth to her own
child.
> She was a saint. She lived to be 94. Ethel Kent Brockwell used to tell
me
> that she attended the 1943 Violet Hill High School graduation, and a
special
> light was placed that shone right on Aunt Eutha's birthmark. She really
felt
> sorry for Aunt Eutha because she knew it embarrassed her tremendously.
She has
> never complained about it, but she has kept it covered from the public,
and
> it was no secret to anyone. I just figured it had to more with Grandma
> Walker's age at having a first and only child than anything else.
>
> Mike Walker
>
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