Title: Material Accessories

General Information about Item:

• Genre and Sub Genre
  • Customary Folklore: Superstition

• Language: English

• United States of America

Informant Data:

• Kyran McKinney-Crudden
  • Age: 20
  • Junior
  • Hometown: Glastonbury, Connecticut
  • Defensive Back #3

Contextual Data:

• Social Context
  • This type of superstition is known to every player on the team. The superstition stays the same but the material accessories are specific to each individual player.
• Cultural Context
  • Each individual prefers to wear different items for different reasons. However, the superstition remains the same. They wear these accessories because they believe that if they do, they or the team will have a great game

Item:

Superstition: Material Accessories

• Eye Black
• Arm bands
• Ties on cleats (called “Spatting”)
• Towels
• Different gloves

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

https://youtu.be/83CXQSBazss

Transcript of Associated File:

Informant: Uhh.. yeah, couple of common ones, are, probably the most common ones are eye black. um.. i know a lot of guys that won’t go out on the field  on gamed without their eye black on. umm…

Collector: What’s eye black?

Informant: Eye black is just a little paint stick, umm… and you put, you draw some lines under your eyes. Some people do designs, people do, you know, their number, certain things like that. Um… it’s actually kind of an issue cause, sometimes it’s like we need to get out there and everybody is scrambling, struggling to get their eye black on because everybody, you have to have your eye black on, if that’s your superstition. Um… my personal one is I spat my cleats, which means I put tape umm… around the, my cleats, my ankles. It kinda gives a little bit of support, but it’s really just to look cool, the idea, you look good, feel good, play good. um.. basically a lot of guys do it in different ways. I do the spat, some people do arm bands different gloves, um… towels anything like that.

Collector’s Name:

Hailey Noronha

Tags/Keywords:

Customary Folklore, Superstition, Football, Dartmouth