It's time for another #MissusMonday! Can you help us identify Mrs. Jenkins of Twillingate?
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It's #MissusMonday! Are you able to help us identify Mrs. P. Lynch from Plate Cove?
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It's time for another #MissusMonday!

Can you help us identify Mrs. P. Furey from Buchans?

Missus Monday

Are you able to help us identify Mrs.MacIsaac, a housewife living in Stephenville in the 1960s? She is from St. Alban's. The document states "Terri's mother, Mrs.MacIsaac, tells me that if she ever thinks about someone when that person has been away from home for a long time, sure enough, she is sure to hear from that person in the immediate future."

It's time for another #MissusMonday! Sometimes the full names of informants, often married women, are not recorded. When we come across them, MUNFLA tries to recover the person's name to recognize their contribution. Are you able to help us identify Mrs. MacIsaac?
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For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing an example of folk language from Mrs. Wicks of Badger’s Quay.

Have you ever heard cancer referred to as “wild lupus”? This one is new to me!

And as always, can you help give Mrs. Wicks her first name?
[MUNFLA 81-117_036]

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a belief from Mrs. R Laite or Trinity.

The idea is that the sound of bells ringing in your right ear is a sign of good news to come!

Do you know any omens of good fortune?

And as always, can you help give Mrs. R. Laite her first name?

For #MissusMonday we’re sharing fairylore from Mrs. E. Harris. Newfoundland and Labrador has a rich tradition of fairylore with lots of ways to keep these mischievous creatures from taking you away.

Do you know any fairy stories?

Can you help us give Mrs. Harris her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a belief about bread from Mrs. D. Knee of Corner Brook.

The belief is that taking the last slice of bread from the plate is a sign that one will forever be a bachelor or an old maid. [MUNFLA 68-001_125]

Can you help us give Mrs. D. Knee her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a divination from E. Thorne of Brownsdale, Trinity Bay.

Get your eggs ready!

And as always, can you help give E. Throne her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a folk narrative from Mrs. T. Fitzgerald that's associated with the wreck of the SS. Florizel.

And as always, can you help us give Mrs. T Fitzgerald her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing an Inuktitut version of the toe-counting rhyme, This Little Piggy, from M. Tuglavina of Makkovik.

Can you help us give M. Tuglavina her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a folk remedy for warts from Mrs. Mackey of St. Brendan’s.

What’s interesting about this remedy is that, usually, a dog eats the pork, but in this case, it’s a cat!

And as always, can you help us give Mrs. Mackey her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing the belief that if you’re bad to your mother, your hand will stick out of the grave when you die.

This is likely a reference to the folktale, “The Willful Child”, collected by the Brothers Grimm.

For today’s #MissusMonday we have this adorable saying from Mrs. C.B. Bartlett of Cow Head. This was used to help catch little brown butterflies, aka “pitchie paws.”

In Newfoundland “pitch” means to “land or fall"

And can you help us give Mrs. Bartlett her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a folk remedy for worm fever. All you have to do is put a bag of worms on your chest until they dry up and die! Perfect!

This dubious cure is brought to us by S. Rowe of St. John’s, can you help us give S. Rowe her first name?

Happy New Year! We’re back with another #MissusMonday and today we’re sharing a superstition from Mrs. B. McGrath about passing someone on the stairs.

Can you help us give Mrs. B. McGrath of St. John’s her first name? [MUNFLA 64-004]

Photo credit: The Rooms Provincial Archive (A111-13) Date: before 1949

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a saying about Bell Island from Mrs. Terrence White of Carbonear.

Have you heard this saying before?

And as always, can you help us give Mrs. White her first name? [MUNFLA 70-020H]

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing a cooking tip from Mrs. J. B. Murphy of Bell Island.

Can you help us give Mrs. Murphy her first name?

For today’s #MissusMonday we’re sharing an example of folk language from Mrs. Carter (Dicks) of Little Harbour, Placentia Bay.

Have you ever felt “all mops and brooms?”

And as always, can you help us give Mrs. Carter her first name?