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Old 08-06-2011, 05:54 PM
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No tales, but I laughed at the onion trick! Wonder how the room smells!
I laughed and thought the same thing...whew...not in my house...but then not too worry, this is OK 2011...there is NO measurable rain!

I have heard about the catepillars..but we don't have them here!
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Old 08-06-2011, 06:38 PM
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It was pully bone in Maine.
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:45 PM
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If you spilled salt with your left hand you have to through it over your right shoulder and if you spilled with your right hand you through it over your left for good luck.
yep, got that one..

also a hat on the bed means the passing of some one close,
sweep under the feet of an married lady means she will be getting married,
a black cat crossing your path means bad luck, BUT a black cat wandering to your door step means good luck!
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:46 PM
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It was pully bone in Maine.
pully bone in TX too...
and the part that goes over the fence last is called the Popes Nose...
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Old 08-06-2011, 07:56 PM
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if there were bubbles when we poured tea into your tea cup, my MIL used to scoop them up with a spoon and eat them. If you did, you were supposed to have money coming your way.
I can just picture this!!LOL!

speaking of superstitions, everyone knows about the wishbone and making a wish. How many grew up calling it a "pully bone"? I had a friend down south who called it that.
Me, Me!! I must have been 11 or 12 yrs old before I knew it was a wishbone!!
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Old 08-06-2011, 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by QuiltE
if there were bubbles when we poured tea into your tea cup, my MIL used to scoop them up with a spoon and eat them. If you did, you were supposed to have money coming your way.
My father did this with his coffee, he would sip the bubbles up immediately... he said it meant money was comming.
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[quote=jaciqltznok and the part that goes over the fence last is called the Popes Nose...[/quote]

In Maine, we called that the petau.......don't ask me why, I have no idea but might have been french.
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Old 08-06-2011, 08:37 PM
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If you eat black eyed peas with your dinner on New Year's Eve you will have a properous new year.

If your right palm itches, money is coming
If your left palm itches, money is leaving

A cricket in your house is a sign of good luck.

If a ladybug lands on you, good luck is coming your way.

My favorite one is, what you do to your parents, your children will be ten times worse.
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Originally Posted by IrelandDragonQuilting
If you eat black eyed peas with your dinner on New Year's Eve you will have a properous new year.

If your right palm itches, money is coming
If your left palm itches, money is leaving

A cricket in your house is a sign of good luck.

If a ladybug lands on you, good luck is coming your way.

My favorite one is, what you do to your parents, your children will be ten times worse.
which reminds, if you hit your mother, your hands will grow out of your grave!

If your right palm itches, money is coming = right for receiving,
If your left palm itches, money is leaving= left for relieving!
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Old 08-06-2011, 09:33 PM
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Step on a crack will break your mother's back.

Don't tell a lie or your nose will grow.
Don't cross your eyes or they will stay that way.
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