Country1

Keep 'em coming, this is fun and funny on some. My grand-mother swore by these. She thought Soltice was the answer for just about everything from sinus, arthiritis, muscle aches, ..... She also used mudd dober nests, put them in an old sock and crush them. Then you would dust it on galleded areas or diaper rash. Soltas
I keep a jar in my bedside table and yes I use it. When my daughter was a newborn she had a reaction to Desidin. My DD went to the barn, I used it and her rash, blisters, and redness was gone shortly afterward!
Sometimes I think I am a chemical sespool. Wonder if we used old time remedies it would make us better.
Sorry for all the miss spelling, I'm about to fall asleep!

mrs. fitz

Don't lay shoes down on a bed - brings bad luck.
Don't step over a baby playing on the floor, he/she will not grow.
(Only buy quality food products because....) cheap meat dogs eat (thanks Granny).
If you make an ugly face it will freeze like that.

auntpiggylpn

If you go outside with your hair wet, you will catch a cold
If you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for 7 years
if you eat the crusts on your sandwiches you will be able to whistle
if you eat all your bacon you will be able to snap your fingers
If you get a sore white spot on your tongue it's because you told a lie
If you start shaving your legs too early, the hair will grow back in thicker

and one that my older sisters taunted me with because I was plagued often with styes in my eye and one you probably don't want to share with your DGD - if you get a stye in your eye it is because you peed in the alley!!!

nativetexan

don't open an umbrella inside, especially a black one. nor put it on the bed open. not sure why.

MissM

These are some I grew up knowing as a kid: If you blow out all the candles on your birthday cake with the first puff you will get your wish.
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If a clock which has not been working suddenly chimes, therewill be a death in the family.

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Break your mother's back.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Cross my heart and hope to die,
Cut my throat if I tell a lie.

dmsaki

My grandma used to say if your boob itches, the one that had it last wants it again!

ragquilter

If you have a tooth pulled and don't stick your tongue in the hole, you will grow a gold tooth.

Jo M

Hahaha, Ragquilter...My Aunt always told us this & I used to believe it.

Well here's one of the weirdest things I ever heard. I actually overheard a woman tell her daughter (with baby in arm) this one: You shouldn't take a baby out on a windy day because it will give the baby gas. ​

lorli

If a bird flies in a window, someone in the family will die.
If a window shade snaps and rolls up by itself, someone will die.
Putting shoes on furniture (not with feet in them!) is another sign of death. (Ive heard this one from people who came from all over the world, from Australia to Russia - my DGM).

If you knit a sweater for your man, the relationship will not last (another international one and it's true!).

if you get dressed and put something on inside out by mistake, you will have unexpected visitors (I actually believe in that one too!).

mhollifiel

Mama said that if you sewed on Sunday you would have to pick every stitch out with your nose when you got to heaven. This worried me until I realized I had sewn so much on Sundays that my nose was long gone!

Also "don't split the pole" means that when two are walking together and a column, sign, etc. comes between them it will break the friendship/relationship UNLESS you both say something that goes together like "bacon and eggs" or "salt and pepper."

And finally my favorite library storytelling charm which prevents nightmares. Place the shoes you wore today under the bed side by side, one going forward and the other back. No Nightmares! So many of my students rushed to school to tell me that this worked. LOL!