Old wives tales

leeCal
leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
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Just for fun I thought we could swap old wives tales.

Usually they are sayings or superstitions without much foundation.

For example, holding a buttercup under some chin to see if they like butter, or Feed a cold but starve a fever, actually I believe that one, but those kinds of sayings.

Anyone got any others?
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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    If you pull a face and the wind blows you’ll stay that way! 🤪
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    edited June 2022
    Never put new  shoes on a table
    This comes from putting deceased peoples shoes on a coffin.

    That just reminded me, once j put coins over my eyes and said "look what I can do" omg I got biggest telling off ever
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    Dont open a brolly in doors, below is why from Google 

    Umbrellas have been around for centuries and the original superstition has its origins in ancient Egypt, where umbrellas were used as a shield from the sun, and opening one indoors was disrespectful to the sun god, Ra, who would seek vengeance on the household in which the umbrella was opened.6 Jul 2019
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    Lol @woodbine it was the  thing back in the day, my grandkids think I'm odd when I say them, there like why. 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Dont have anything with wheels in the house when pregnant eg pram 

    If you don't stop crying I will give you something to cry about 

    Say that again and I will wash your mouth out with soap and water 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Bulls hate the colour red. (Apparently untrue since cattle are colour blind)
  • Cartini
    Cartini Online Community Member Posts: 1,107 Trailblazing
    woodbine said:
    most of the ones I recall are unsuitable for a public forum and usually involved going blind  :)
    :D:D:D
  • Cartini
    Cartini Online Community Member Posts: 1,107 Trailblazing
    Biblioklept said:
    Teddybear12 said:
    A stitch in time saves nine.


    I never understood what this means

    if you sort out a problem immediately it may save a lot of extra work later.

  • Cartini
    Cartini Online Community Member Posts: 1,107 Trailblazing
    There are elements of fact in these two:

    Red sky in the morning, sailors warning
    Red sky at night, shepherds delight

  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @Biblioklept I literally had a small hole in my jeans so I stitched it up because I know the hole will only get bigger. But Cartini is right anyway.

    A swallow does not a summer make.

    Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. (People look into the mouths of horses when buying to see the condition of their teeth. If it’s, a gift it’s a gift in other words)

    Beware of greeks baring gifts (apologies Greeks) this is a reference to the Trojan horse given to the trojans by the Greeks but containing soldiers who later opened the gates and allowed the once impregnable city of Troy to be sacked.
  • Starlingbird
    Starlingbird Online Community Member Posts: 168 Empowering
    My Mum used to say not to eat standing up because it would make your legs fat. I used to envisage all the food dropping down and filling my legs lol.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited June 2022
    If you spill salt, throw a pinch of it over your left shoulder to counteract the bad luck.

    Crossed knives at the table signify a forthcoming quarrel 😳
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    edited June 2022
    I'm loving all these surprised no one has mentioned 
    Don't walk under a ladder as you will occur bad luck 

    Basically it's about items falling on you from said ladder, that the person up the ladder may drop on you as you walk under
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    When we were kids we used to say "don't tread on the cracks it will break your back " think it was more of a game tho.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited June 2022
    To protect a house from witches a rowan tree must be planted, and under no circumstances must hawthorn be brought into the house before May Day as it belongs to the Woodland God and will bring bad luck! 
  • lollycat11
    lollycat11 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener
    Hi, there’s do not cross on the stairs… bad luck!

    a 🦅 in the house…. Well I don’t like that one!

    ooh then there’s the magpies! One for sorrow two for joy! I have to salute a solo magpie!

    and I always say white rabbits 🐇 3 times on the 1st of the month!
  • Cartini
    Cartini Online Community Member Posts: 1,107 Trailblazing
    lollycat11 said:

    ooh then there’s the magpies! One for sorrow two for joy!
    I used to say one for sorrow...... every time I saw a magpie.  I`ve stopped now because I get so many in the garden I would spend all day saying it.

  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Never have thirteen places set at the table, it’s bad luck of course 🙂
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    It's bad luck to whistle in the kitchen.

    If you drop a cooks knife on the floor you should stamp on it - stick it in wood sure to come good !

    not forgetting the itchy palms - rub it on wood - right hand receive , left hand give.


  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Two women must not pour from the same tea-pot, if they do, a quarrel will ensue. 🍵 

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