Thread: Some Old Wives Tales and Superstitions.....

Don't walk under a ladder, it could bring bad luck OR something could
fall on you!

Friday the 13th is ALWAYS a bad day!

If you find a penny face up, pick it up for good luck. If it is face down, turn
it over and leave it for the next person to find and have good luck!

Bad things always happen when there's a full moon!

If you steal from the dead they come back to haunt you until you return what is
stolen.

Always put on your right shoe first!

Never put shoes on the table, they will never be comfortable again

That there's only one true love for each of us!

Whenever you go to a Church for the very first time make 3 wishes.

Breaking a mirror will bring you 7 years bad luck.

Your kids will turn your hair gray.

Never kiss a girl with green teeth (why would you want to?????????)

Knocking on wood

In Venezuela they always wear yellow underwear for New Year's Eve!

Black cats are lucky.

Throw salt over your left shoulder if you spill it!

It's unlucky to have turkey on the table without cranberry sauce.

All bad things happen in threes.

A dog howling (not barking) in the night foretells the death of someone close to you.

On New Years Eve at midnight a male must come in the door first to bring good luck all year.

It is darkest before the dawn

Making a wish and breaking the wishbone of a turkey.

Don't talk about something bad happening to you, lest it may come true.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

The groom seeing the bride before the wedding is really bad luck!

Each time you see a bale of hay, make a wish and don't look back at it or your wish won't come true.

A bird hitting the window is bad luck...possibly death in family.

Do not kill a ladybug if it is in the house or lands on you. If you kill it, then you will have bad luck. (Ive always heard that it will rain)

Never ever open umbrellas inside!!!

If you plant a weeping willow tree, someone in your family will pass away soon.

If your ears are ringing, someone is talking about you.

Not to hang up next years calendar until the new year comes in.

Chain Letters

Pound a nail into an elm tree to stop Dutch Elm Disease

If you work on New Years day you will work all year long

If you see a guy dressed in black walk through a house then someone in your
family will die

4 leaf clovers bring good luck

You should not buy any baby needs within the first trimester of pregnancy.

rocking chair rocking by itself in a room means a death is about to occur

I've always heard that when you dream of manure (polite way of saying of it) you will come into money....

I believe that there is one person born who is our other half or lifemate and until
we find the other half of ourselves we cannot be truly happy.

The rains stop if you see a double rainbow.....

Every time a bell rings a angle gets his wings

If wooly worms have a thick coat, it is going to be a bad winter.

Bury a dishrag on a full moon night, in a graveyard, to get rid of a wart!

Italian superstition that says it is bad luck to have birds of any kind inside your house.

Every New Years Day we cook black eyed peas for good luck the rest of the year.

I believe it's unlucky to have peacock feathers in the house. They have the evil eye on them.

Lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place (suuuure it doesn't)

Don't tell anyone your dream/nightmare before eating breakfast in the morning or it will come true!

Do not change seats on an airplane.

Give a pocket knife back to the person that gave it to you in the same position as it was handed, or the person will loose the knife.

Step on a crack, break your momma's back!

Wishing on a star!

If you have heartburn when pregnant you will have a child with a full head of hair. (BULLCHIT!!! LOL)

If you get a wooden splinter and don't remove it, it will grow into a tree!!

Don't go swimming during your 'time' of the month (EEEEEEEEWWWWWWW)

That a snake will not crawl over a rope.

If you cut your hair with a growing moon, your hair will grow faster

Rub a penny on a sty and it will go away

If you tickle a baby too much, the baby will develop a stutter.

When it's raining with the sun shinning it means the devil is beating his wife.

Chocolate causes acne

The moon is made out of green cheese. (You mean its not??? LOL)

If wishes were fishes, we'd all have a fry.

Raw cookie dough will cause you to have worms!! (uh oh....LOL)

If you eat all your crusts you will grow hair on your chest!

Measure Twice - Cut Once -

Vinegar on the chest will cure a cold.

If you swallow a watermelon seed, it will grow.

If you sit on a kitchen table you will never get married

Putting buttermilk on freckles to make them fade.

Ants won't cross a chalk line (for real)

Don't sit too close to the TV or your eyes will cross!

Little white marks on your finger nails were from all the lies you tell (are you checking your nails?)

Put sugar in water to get rid of hiccups

Blow bubbles through a straw in your drink that you will get air in your stomach.

Use vinegar on insect bites

Change your underwear every morning in case you are in an accident (why do that? if you are in an accident..first you say it.... then you DO it!!!)

Sweep under someone's feet and they will be married in a year.

Castor oil makes your hair grow.

Your nose will grow if you lie

Putting aspirin on a tooth that aches.

If you pull that face and the wind changes your face will stay like that!

Rub a cut potato half on a wart and bury it in the garden at midnight,
the wart will go away

Cook potatoes, crunch them a little bit, wrap in a dish towel and around your neck. It's very good for a sore throat

If your foot itches you will walk on strange ground.

Pound a nail into an elm tree to stop Dutch Elm Disease

When your pregnant the more heartburn you have the more hair
your baby will have

Honey and tea helps get rid of a cold

You can't get pregnant standing up. (not true!)

An open teapot means an unexpected visitor

When you visit someone's home, if you come in the back door you must go out the back door or you'll have bad luck.

Leave a home through the same door you enter for good luck

Feed a cold, starve a fever...or is it feed a fever, starve a cold?

Sleeping with a piece of wedding cake under your pillow will have you
dreaming of your future mate (EEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW)

You'll get $ if your palm itches.

Shoes on the table bring bad luck

Never put your shoes on the table, they will never fit again!

Blow cigarette smoke in an ear and stuff with cotton for ear infections

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear!

Don't sit your hat on the table because it won't fit when you put it back on.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If you make a funny face and the wind changes. Your face will stay that way.

Putting a Knife under the bed will cut labor pains in half. (I wish!)

A cat has nine lives!

Caster oil induces labor

Stitch in time saves nine

Happy is the Bride the Sun Shines on

When it rains on your funeral, you are in heaven

You can never become pregnant while breast feeding. Ha Ha

Sweeping across one's feet will cause bad luck

Never remove an old broom from a house you are moving from. Leave it there. Buy a new broom when you move into your new house. Good luck will follow you and the person who moves into your old house!

Don't look like that or your face will freeze like that!

Never let a black cat cross your path, or you'll have bad luck.

Plant baby's navel cord after it falls off under a rose bush for beautiful roses.

If you wish upon the first star at night your wish will always come true if you
truly believe.

Red at nite- sailors delight, red in the morning--sailors take warning

If I walk on the lines on the side walk the bears will get me

Make the foot before the head, or else my dear, you'll never wed!

Don't pluck that one gray hair or 7 more will grow in it's place

If you wrap up pinto beans in a piece of cloth and rub them on a wart,
then drop somewhere. The person that finds them will then have the warts and yours will disappear.
When your joints ache, then bad weather is on the way.

That you can catch a bird by sprinkling salt on it's tail.

If you have are laughing at midnight on the new Years eve..you will laugh all year but if you cry or are angry the same thing will happen also happen to you all the new year.

What goes around, comes around (Well DUH)

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A Cat can steal a baby's breath in crib

If you cross your eyes they will stay that way!

If you drop any silverware, than guests will be coming.
Knife=man Fork=woman spoon=child

Sitting on concrete can have dire consequences (yeah.... a cold butt!)

Putting olive oil and pepper on a peice of cotton ball and
putting it in the ear for ear aches

For single women--when peeling an apple, peel all in one piece
from top to bottom or visa versa,(it has to be the whole peel), and then throw the peel over your left shoulder. When it lands on the floor look for a shape of a letter--it will be the letter of your future husband!!

Eating fish will make you smarter because fish is "brain food"

If you have hair on your stomach while you're pregnant, you'll have a boy.

If you ate burnt toast it would give you curly hair.

Frowning causes wrinkles

Lemon and whiskey take away a cough

That one can catch a cold just by being outside in the cold with a wet head!!!

Sitting to close to tv or video screens that will make you go blind.

If you play with fire you will wet the bed

If you take a bath while it's storming, you will get struck by lightening

Eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away.

Don't rock an empty rocking chair. Or you will have bad luck..

Don't do laundry on New Year's Day, or someone in the family will die.

If you drop a knife on the kitchen floor, company will be arriving from whichever way it is pointing.

If you put a ring on a string and put it over a pregnant woman you can tell the sex of the unborn child!

When you breastfeed you can't get pregnant. (not true!)

Wash blankets in May, you'll wash someone away!




FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR OWN....

Originally posted by Ravenlost
When your nose itches it means you're going to have unexpected company.

For example:

My nose itches
I smell peaches
Somebody's coming
With a hole in their britches.

LOL, Raven! I hadn't heard that since I was 5 or 6 years old! My great-granny used to say that all the time.

If you have hair on your stomach while you're pregnant, you'll have a boy.

I got out of the shower the other day and was gonna rub some lotion on my belly and noticed hair all over it! I came running into the living room, raised my shirt and asked hubby if he could see all of it. I was flipping out! LMAO! I never noticed it like that when I was pregnant before and they were both boys. lol

Originally posted by DreamWarrior

If you find a penny face up, pick it up for good luck. If it is face down, turn it over and leave it for the next person to find and have good luck!

If wooly worms have a thick coat, it is going to be a bad winter.

You'll get $ if your palm itches.

My grandfather would never pick up a penny because he felt that bad luck was attached to it since someone already had the bad luck of losing it.

We were always told that it was a thick coat and the amount of rings on the wooly worms body that would indicate the winter.

If the right palm itches it means you will receive money and if the left palm itches you will owe money.


These are the ones I always remember hearing around the family when I was growing up:

If you drop a knife you are going to cut a relationship/friendship.

If your nose itches someone is coming to visit you.

If the right ear is itching someone is saying something nice about you and if the left ear is itching someone is saying something bad about you.

On a full moon night, wean calves and foals from their mothers.

On New Years Day, serve black-eyed peas for a year's worth of good luck and cabbage for a year's worth of wealth (money).

Plant sweet peas on St. Patrick's Day for good luck the rest of the year.

I was always told when your nose itches it means your going to kiss a fool!

My sister-in-law says when you have a mirror that fades to get rid of it cause something bad will happen if you don't .. she said it means the mirror is dead ?? .. she is into the superstitions and old wives tales.