Myths, Wives tales, Superstitions, and the Like
08-10-2011, 04:11 AM
#112
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
My stepmother had a few good ones.
If you drop a fork, company's coming. A knife, it will be a man, a spoon, a woman.
If you hit your mother, your hand will stick out of your grave.
If you drop a fork, company's coming. A knife, it will be a man, a spoon, a woman.
If you hit your mother, your hand will stick out of your grave.
08-10-2011, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by be a quilter
Originally Posted by ptquilts
My stepmother had a few good ones.
If you drop a fork, company's coming. A knife, it will be a man, a spoon, a woman.
If you hit your mother, your hand will stick out of your grave.
If you drop a fork, company's coming. A knife, it will be a man, a spoon, a woman.
If you hit your mother, your hand will stick out of your grave.
08-11-2011, 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by QuiltE
Originally Posted by IrelandDragonQuilting
Originally Posted by berrypatch
I have a special rock that I keep outside. When it is hot & dry- it is sunny, when wet-it is raining, when white-it is snowing! :lol:
08-11-2011, 04:40 AM
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Old Wives Tale: being Born in the Caul
This means that the amniotic sac doesn't break during the birth and the head is born still covered in the membrane. It doesn't happen very often even in natural births. It almost never happens in the hospital because the 'water' is so often broken artificially. Some say that a child born this way may have special intuitive powers, be destined to be a midwife, have extraordinary luck or never die by drowning.
My second son was born this way - and I think he has been very lucky in his life. I always tell people he is the kind of person who would fall into a bucket of doo-doo and come out smelling like a rose.
Once he was in a car accident (he was the driver) all the 4 other kids in the car were taken to hospital (nothing serious) and he was left on the side of the road without a scratch. There were no police charges either - and he was clearly in the wrong. I dont know how he got away with that one.
He has been very lucky in lots of things. Now if he could just win lotto so his mum could retire. :-D
This means that the amniotic sac doesn't break during the birth and the head is born still covered in the membrane. It doesn't happen very often even in natural births. It almost never happens in the hospital because the 'water' is so often broken artificially. Some say that a child born this way may have special intuitive powers, be destined to be a midwife, have extraordinary luck or never die by drowning.
My second son was born this way - and I think he has been very lucky in his life. I always tell people he is the kind of person who would fall into a bucket of doo-doo and come out smelling like a rose.
Once he was in a car accident (he was the driver) all the 4 other kids in the car were taken to hospital (nothing serious) and he was left on the side of the road without a scratch. There were no police charges either - and he was clearly in the wrong. I dont know how he got away with that one.
He has been very lucky in lots of things. Now if he could just win lotto so his mum could retire. :-D
08-11-2011, 05:08 AM
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I have actually seen it rain little frogs....in my grandmother's backyard when I was little. I also thought it was interesting that one day it rained on the other side of the road and our side was dry....again at my grandmother's.
08-11-2011, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by LittleMo
Old Wives Tale: being Born in the Caul
This means that the amniotic sac doesn't break during the birth and the head is born still covered in the membrane. It doesn't happen very often even in natural births. It almost never happens in the hospital because the 'water' is so often broken artificially. Some say that a child born this way may have special intuitive powers, be destined to be a midwife, have extraordinary luck or never die by drowning.
My second son was born this way - and I think he has been very lucky in his life. I always tell people he is the kind of person who would fall into a bucket of doo-doo and come out smelling like a rose.
Once he was in a car accident (he was the driver) all the 4 other kids in the car were taken to hospital (nothing serious) and he was left on the side of the road without a scratch. There were no police charges either - and he was clearly in the wrong. I dont know how he got away with that one.
He has been very lucky in lots of things. Now if he could just win lotto so his mum could retire. :-D
This means that the amniotic sac doesn't break during the birth and the head is born still covered in the membrane. It doesn't happen very often even in natural births. It almost never happens in the hospital because the 'water' is so often broken artificially. Some say that a child born this way may have special intuitive powers, be destined to be a midwife, have extraordinary luck or never die by drowning.
My second son was born this way - and I think he has been very lucky in his life. I always tell people he is the kind of person who would fall into a bucket of doo-doo and come out smelling like a rose.
Once he was in a car accident (he was the driver) all the 4 other kids in the car were taken to hospital (nothing serious) and he was left on the side of the road without a scratch. There were no police charges either - and he was clearly in the wrong. I dont know how he got away with that one.
He has been very lucky in lots of things. Now if he could just win lotto so his mum could retire. :-D
08-11-2011, 08:27 PM
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My dad always said "the sun always shines on Saturday". Haven't seen one Saturday yet where it didn't shine even if it was just for a second.
He also said you get mositure 3 and/or 90 days from a fog. This one seems fairly true also.
A gal I worked with said if a mother carried her baby high it would be a girl and if she carried it low it would be a boy. She told her daughter she was going to have a girl while the doctor told her daughter the ultra sound showed a boy. After the birth the parents had to exchange all the boy clothes for girl clothes.
Never heard of a pully bone before!
Thanks for the interesting thread!!
He also said you get mositure 3 and/or 90 days from a fog. This one seems fairly true also.
A gal I worked with said if a mother carried her baby high it would be a girl and if she carried it low it would be a boy. She told her daughter she was going to have a girl while the doctor told her daughter the ultra sound showed a boy. After the birth the parents had to exchange all the boy clothes for girl clothes.
Never heard of a pully bone before!
Thanks for the interesting thread!!
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