Just name an old wives tale that you have heard. I will start.

don't reach above your head when pregnant the cord will get wrapped around the babies neck.

Never touch a baby bird. If you touch it the parents will smell human on the baby and never go near it again.

If you spill salt you must throw some over your left shoulder or you will have bad luck.

If you go outside with wet hair, you'll catch a cold.


Reading in dim light will damage your eyes.

Those are two of my favorites that i always got yelled at for doing - and I was right when i told my parents IT wasn't going to hurt me - because both are FALSE LOL

Dont sit on a cold floor you will get piles
and
If you get fightened by a wolf while pregnant your baby will be hairy!!!!!!
I love the last one its hilarious

Handling toads will give you warts.

eating poison ivy in the spring will make you immune to it.
(I knew someone who tried this, not pretty)

having heartburn while pregnant you will have a baby with a head full of hair. It must be true cause it happened with both my kids they had hair all the way down their foreheads.

breaking mirrors give you 7 years bad luck

If you make ugly faces your face will look like that forever.

at greek weddings you have to spit on the bride to bring her good luck

YUCK.

Don't throw dry rice at weddings, because outdoor birds will eat it and kill them.

Never walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck.

Never let a black cat cross your path.

Cats can steal the air from a baby's mouth.

If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn you wont get a cold all winter long.

To drop a fork means a man is coming to visit.

If you say goodbye to a friend on a bridge you will never see them again.

an onion cut in half and put under the bed of a sick person will draw off fever and poisons.

Bad luck will follow the spilling of salt unless a pinch is thrown over the left shoulder into the face of the devil waiting there.

If a single woman sleeps with a piece of wedding cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband.

It's bad luck to sweep after sundown.

NOTE: My family knows this to be true because Mrs. Cunningham swept after sundown and Mr. cunningham ran his bobtruck off in the ditch that same night...................... and that jug of moonshine had nothing to do with it.

I thought that one was true. Thats why they changed to throwing bird seed instead. kinda loses something in the transition though as I thought rice was for fertility.

it is bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other before the wedding.

if someone sweeps under your feet you will never get married.

When you move, never take the broom...or it will be bad luck.

If an owl hoots after daybreak, it means someone will die.

If you go out one door in the house, you must go through the same door to avoid evil when you return.

Children should be seen and not heard...LOL

Never place a hat on a bed, it means the death of someone in the household.

Ring around the moon means it will rain tommorrow.

Sun out while it rains means rain again tommorrow.

If a black cat takes up residence at your house, that is good luck.

Eating greens, blackeyed peas and hog jowl (yuck) will bring you prosperity if you do it on New Year's Day.

You can tell the sex of an unborn baby is you swing a needle on thread over the Mom's arm. if it goes front to back on the arm, it is a girl..if it swings side to side, it is a boy.

Chew tobacco and put it on a bee sting and it pulls out the poison (this one works)

Brides should carry or wear something borrowed something blue something old and something new

Step on a crack in the sidewalk and it will break your mother's back.

A seventh child who has never seen her father can cunjure warts off your body..

If a snapping turtle bites you, it won't turn loose until it thunders.

Blacksnakes are called rattlesnake's pilots, and there is always one around if you see a black snake.

If the cows are lying down, the fish are biting.

A poultice of nightshade will pull out a carbuncle...LOL I still don't know what this one means.

If you see a snake doctor (dragon fly) there is a snake close by.

Soak in kerosene to keep a cut from causing lock jaw.

the needle thing really works.
for a pregnant woman put their wedding band on a piece of thred if it swings in circles its a girl if it swings back and forth over her prego belly it is a boy. It has worked on all of my pregnancys. The needle thing we use is the needle is stuck in the eraser of a sharpened pencil and then threded it will tell you every pregnancy you will ever have even the ones you wont if you are spayed. It said I was gonna have 6 I had 2 miscarriages and 2 live birth then was spayed.

If you peel an apple in one long peel and throw it over your left shoulder it will reveal the initials of your husband to be

Eat a boiled egg on the night of your 16th birthday and you will dream of your husband to be.

If it rains while the sun is shining this means the devil is spanking his wife.

An upside down horse shoe brings good luck

I also hear it's good luck to have a penny in your shoe!!!

LoL I did all of these things and you know I have to tell you (even though most would prob still consider me a newly wed) I've had the best few years of marriage. No complaints. I love my DH and fall more in love with him each day. OK ok sorry enough mushy stuff. I say all are true!

if you find a penny heads up it will bring good luck if you find a penny tails up leave it there or you will have bad luck if you pick it up.