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  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 810 Trailblazing
    If you whistle in someones ear it will stop them from snoring.

    I can testify that the above works very effectively: A friend of mine believed in every old wives tale going, including whistling in the ear of a snorer . We were staying in a hotel and I was fast asleep and snoring my head off. I began to dream I was walking through a jungle and there were budgies whistling. I woke up but could still hear whistling. I turned around and found my friend whistling in my ear. What are you doing, I asked. He said I am whistling in your ear to stop you snoring. I said it bally works, I am wide awake now!
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 810 Trailblazing
    If you swallow an apple pip a tree will grow in your stomach.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    To test wether a baby will be a boy or girl you take the pregnant woman's wedding ring (or other important ring) and tie it to a thread or string (some women use a strand of hair). The pregnant woman lies down, and you dangle the ring over her baby bump. If the ring swings in a circle, the baby will be a girl.
    (Disclaimer: remember this is an old wives tale )
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    Sitting on a cold or damp step would give u piles.
    No evidence to support that but was told often as a child.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    If you get a yellow reflection from someone’s chin having held a buttercup under it then they like butter 🙂
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    @leecal my grandson was going round testing that on us the other week
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited June 2022
    More of an old saying really but
    its an ill wind that blows nobody good.

    ( meaning someone usually benefits in some way from a misfortune...oh yeah 😏)

    (@Sandy_123 I’m glad that old one is still going)
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    It is yeah @leeCal

    Dandelions make you wee the bed, used to believe that.

  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    It's bad luck if a black cat crosses your path. Well had plenty of black cats over 30 odd years as pets , crossed me god knows how many times, no bad luck from them...
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @emancherry33 but was it bad luck for the cats 😄
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    @leeCal no the cats all lived well over the ages cats are ment to love .infact the vets always commented on how long they loved for. Well loved.
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    Break a mirror 7 years bad luck
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Always carry a lucky rabbits foot...not so lucky for the rabbit 🐰 
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Ment to say lived bloody text.....,
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    Forgot about the rabbits foot - heather was another one for good luck and apparently it used to be bad luck to bring lilac flowers into the house. x
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 810 Trailblazing
    If you sit on the loo and smoke for an hour you won't become constipated.

    This is believed by some Nigerian women.

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