Old Wives Tales.
03-13-2014, 08:31 AM
#82
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Location: Upstate NY
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Lots of heartburn while pregnant means baby will have lots of hair.
Drop a spoon, someones coming for dinner.
black cat crosses your path it's bad luck (we have 3 next door) so far so good
Whistle while walking past a cemetery, I forget why.
This one came from our friend in the UK... don't eat peas from the garden, they will make you sick. I bet it was the only way to get the peas to the dinner table LOL
If it rains on your wedding day it is good luck.
Don't throw your hat on the bed, bad luck.
Don't sleep with your feet in the street, don't place your bed so your feet face the street.
Find a penny pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck!
And this one is just good common sense, "Don't fry bacon in the nude"
Drop a spoon, someones coming for dinner.
black cat crosses your path it's bad luck (we have 3 next door) so far so good
Whistle while walking past a cemetery, I forget why.
This one came from our friend in the UK... don't eat peas from the garden, they will make you sick. I bet it was the only way to get the peas to the dinner table LOL
If it rains on your wedding day it is good luck.
Don't throw your hat on the bed, bad luck.
Don't sleep with your feet in the street, don't place your bed so your feet face the street.
Find a penny pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck!
And this one is just good common sense, "Don't fry bacon in the nude"
03-13-2014, 08:36 AM
#83
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SoCal
Posts: 702
My old German grandmother said....
If you go out the door and turn back, you must go in and out 3 times or bad luck will follow.
And , so funny, if you want a boy when pregnant you must eat rooster testicles. Hmmm, how do you find them? haaaaa
Also about your palm itching, can't remember which side. One side is money coming and the other is meeting a stranger.
If you go out the door and turn back, you must go in and out 3 times or bad luck will follow.
And , so funny, if you want a boy when pregnant you must eat rooster testicles. Hmmm, how do you find them? haaaaa
Also about your palm itching, can't remember which side. One side is money coming and the other is meeting a stranger.
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03-13-2014, 09:36 AM
#85
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Castle Rock, Washington State
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Originally Posted by NJ Quilter
If your palm itches you're going to get money.
If your nose itches you're going to kiss a fool.
If it rains while the sun is shining, the devil is beating his wife.
Don't know where any of these came from but were standards in my family!
If your nose itches you're going to kiss a fool.
If it rains while the sun is shining, the devil is beating his wife.
Don't know where any of these came from but were standards in my family!
Nose itching was kiss a fool or someone was talking or thinking about you.
If your stomach gets wet while washing dishes, you are going to marry a drunk.
If you head out somewhere for a long trip, don't turn around and head back home for anything or mishaps will befall you. Whether it works or not, we did that once and had two flat tires later on.
I still believe in the palm one. Right palm itches you are going to get money, Left palm itches you are going to pay money out. Seems to work! lol
Last edited by reeskylr; 03-13-2014 at 09:39 AM.
03-13-2014, 10:52 AM
#86
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Location: West New York, New Jersey
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To DONNA C from Rhode Island - yes I've heard about taping a quarter to a bump. I grew up in New York City and New Jersey, nowhere near you. To EVERYONE ELSE - this is such a fun topic. I put some things in several pages ago and since then have read so many more that made me think "oh I forgot that one". Look forward to reading many more.
03-13-2014, 11:17 AM
#87
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: mid MI
Posts: 288
Originally Posted by DonnaC
My mom would never hand a knife, a scissor, or anything sharp to another person. You'd have to put the sharp object on a table and let the person pick it up themselves, otherwise is would cut apart your relationship with that person.
Mom had another idiosyncracy (I don't know if it would be considered an old wives' tale) that nobody outside my family ever seems to have heard of. When one of us kids would fall and bump our heads, she would tape a quarter onto the bump. Supposedly it would keep the bump from getting bigger and would help it go down. I'd be interested to know if anyone else ever heard of doing that or if my Mom was a little off her rocker (kidding)!
Mom had another idiosyncracy (I don't know if it would be considered an old wives' tale) that nobody outside my family ever seems to have heard of.
When one of us kids would fall and bump our heads, she would tape a quarter onto the bump. Supposedly it would keep the bump from getting bigger and would help it go down. I'd be interested to know if anyone else ever heard of doing that or if my Mom was a little off her rocker (kidding)!
03-13-2014, 11:19 AM
#88
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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I can remember my elderly neighbor - this was 20 years ago telling about his elderly neighbor from when he was a kid - she would not put screens on her house - she thought it was bad luck to breathe sifted air.
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