|
I hear a lot of things that may or may not be true.
Some are funny and some aren't so funny. I have heard that if you see a lot of frogs on the road it's going to rain. I have seen that and it did rain. I have heard wooley caterpillars, brown and black, normal winter. Blond look out it will be bad. I see black and brown a lot. Winter seems the usual. I have seen both in the same year and seems the weather was a bit different. Blond I saw this year.....? I also heard something about putting single onion layers on your window seal to see how much rain you will be getting. You lay one out for each day of the month. The ones with water will be the days you get rain. How about you? What's your tale? |
No tales, but I laughed at the onion trick! Wonder how the room smells!
|
I don't know but you leave them sit over night!
|
An old Indian one says if you have spiders near your ceilings in the fall, you will have lots of snow and rain during the winter.
It's true too. Well, not the snow part down here in FL. |
when i lived in north carolina, that was close to wanchese, on the outer bankds, they said if the spiders built a web over the grass that we were in for a nor easter, now i did not have a camera then, but i will tell you that the spiders built these funnel webs, and darn if we did not have bad weather, and the when i lived/moved to marshalburg(look up the ponies schakleford/or carrot island) island) /ottway it was just 4 miles from harkers island (with is down east from beaufort north carolina), bonnie the hurricane came over us 5 times, back and forth.
is anyone familiar with the term, i have been mommicked? very much a nc term just wondering key board is not working rite, will change it out jan in palatka |
Red sky at night, sailors delight.
Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning. Weather predicitions for the coming quarter are based on the day before, the day of and the day after the change of season Example -- Spring to Summer If June 20th was wet, then the first month, will be wet. If June 21st was clear and warm, the 2nd month. If June 22nd was extremely hot, then ... you got the idea! Likewise for the rest of the 1/4's. |
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. |
A wive's tale that I heard while pregnant:
If the mom-to-be has a lot of heartburn, then she will have a curly haired child. I do have a curly haired child, and I did get some heartburn in the last trimester, but I also was married to a curly-haired man, so don't know if I can put any stock in the old wives' tale. |
ptquilts, is that because she didn't dig the hole deep enough?
|
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.
|
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.
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. |
Red sky at night, sailors delight.
Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning. |
Blue jays squawk before a rain.
Maple leaves turn over before a storm - this one is true. |
Originally Posted by np3
No tales, but I laughed at the onion trick! Wonder how the room smells!
|
From my grandmother:
Wear a black silk thread around your neck to keep from getting the croup. If you have a sore throat you didn't tie your sock around your neck. Don't put your arms over your head when expecting or the cord will be around the baby's neck. |
Originally Posted by ptquilts
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.
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. |
A slice of raw potato will get rid of warts
|
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.
|
Originally Posted by Cheri_J
A slice of raw potato will get rid of warts
|
If you get your hair cut when the moon is growing your hair will grow faster than if you get your hair cut when the moon is shrinking.
I have cousins that swear by this. |
Originally Posted by np3
No tales, but I laughed at the onion trick! Wonder how the room smells!
I have heard about the catepillars..but we don't have them here! |
It was pully bone in Maine.
|
Originally Posted by kberry
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.
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! |
Originally Posted by Ellen
It was pully bone in Maine.
and the part that goes over the fence last is called the Popes Nose... |
Originally Posted by ptquilts
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.
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. |
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.
|
[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. |
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. |
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. If your right palm itches, money is coming = right for receiving, If your left palm itches, money is leaving= left for relieving! |
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. |
something was wrong with my key board, so was unable to finish, but i always loved the
red sky at night thing my favorite, when i lived in nc, was "the frogs are crying for rain" people would say that just before the rain came in the summer (usually another hurricane-when i lived in nc i sat thru several of them, like i think 17 or at least it seemed like it. bonnie came over us 5 times in otway, once you could even see the eye, and the gulls flying in it over the house, lucky for us, it was just days without elec, for other people it was horrible. i must ask my mom, she is 94 and i bet she has a million, texas girl, raised on a ranch, the stories she can tell jan in palatka |
Seaweed can predict the weather. My grandmother swore by hers.
Dry and there would be no rain. Wet and it would rain. Scientists have just proved this is correct. I loved a saying of my mother's. If you fall off that and break your leg, don't come running to me. Hmmmm running is a bit difficult if your leg is broken. Sad part, is that one day I heard myself saying it to my son!!!! |
Mom always said:
Don't rock the empty rocking chair- bad luck Don't open an umbrella in the house- brings rains of bad luck Ears burning- someone's talking about you Don't leave shoes on the couch/chair - you'll be a wanderer all your life Can't remember others-- seems like she had a superstition for everything! LOL |
Don't put your purse on the floor all the money runs out. I don't put mine on the floor cause I just make ends meet. Try it and let me know if it works for you!
|
Originally Posted by ptquilts
If you hit your mother, your hand will stick out of your grave.
Can't imagine ever wanting to hit my mother. Sainted woman. I can tell you that Grandma was very superstitious - old world superstitious. If she dreamed of someone a certain way it foretold that they would die. The poor woman then spent the next several days (or whatever it took) in mourning and guilt ridden until that person died (which strangely enough wasn't usually very long). Seriously, she would wear black and literally rock back and forth in her chair with her head bowed while fingering and saying the rosary - trance like. One of my friends mothers was Sicilian. She wouldn't let anyone put shoes on the table as it would mean someone in the house would die. Not even brand new in the box "look what I bought today" shoes. And certainly NOT shoes if they were still on your feet - heaven forbid (that foretold a slap on the back on the head!). |
Oh!! My husband has one that he taught me when I went to England. It's about Magpies. We don't have Magpies here where I live so the first time I saw one in England I exclaimed 'oooh! look at the pretty bird'! He saw it and said "look away quick!". I guess one Magpie is bad luck as they are usually seen in pairs.
Those darn birds .. every time I've seen a Magpie in Englands I've *A* Magpie. And his mother would put sheets/blankets over the mirrors if someone passed away. My comment was "well, *someone* passes away every day", hubbies response "that could explain Mom's lack of skill in the makeup/hair department". |
I've seen a lot of the same ones I've heard but here's a few no one has mentioned yet.... put pennies in ziplock bags filled with water and put them around the area you want to keep fly free... picnic.... cookout etc.
More babies are born at the full moon. Also, in astrology, if the person's chart shows the moon is square to the sun, the parents were not getting along when child was conceived. Ring around the moon means rain. Work begun at new moon will be more prosperous. Work begun at full moon will always struggle to survive. The stripe on woolly caterpillar in the fall tells of the winter temps... the thicker the stripe the colder the winter. An itchy nose means you'll have a fight. Spit on a bite to stop the itch. |
Another from my MIL ..... never seat 13 at the table, or one will pass away within the year.
If that were the count, she would either split it into two tables, invite another or you could bet she would not sit at the table. |
Originally Posted by Ellen
ptquilts, is that because she didn't dig the hole deep enough?
|
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.
|
| All times are GMT -8. The time now is 03:31 AM. |