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[AuntMama]

There are things we've all been told that might or might not be true. I just thought it'd be interesting for us to share what we've heard and tell weither or not we believe them to be true or not and to tell if we've ever experienced them to be true. Here's some of mine...

There is a saying that if someone is talking about you that your ears will burn. Well, once I was talking about a woman at work (nothing too bad) but about a minute after I did, she walked up and said "someone must be talking about me, my ears are burning." There was no way for her to have known. The person I was talking to hadn't went anywhere. And NO I wasn't in a habit of talking about her or anyone else. And no one else was there when I had said what I said. Boy did that freak me out.

When I was little, I was told that when you wear a necklace that if the latch slides around from the back toward the front that it means someone is thinking about you and that if it touches the pendant that you can kiss it and slide it back to the back and make a wish on it. I think that the part about someone thinking about you could be true, because I wear a necklace alot and most of the time the latch doesn't move but sometimes, actually it's pretty rare, the latch does slide around. And sometimes, it's coincided with times when I know that someone had me on their mind.

My mother told me that if your nose itches that someone's coming to see you. Which has happened to me.

And when your palm itches, you're going to receive some money. Again, has happened to me.

And when your butt itches, you need a bath. (I'm not telling...LOL)

Sorry I just had to put that in.

Anyone else got any other sayings or wive's tales?

[Lisa'sPath]

I the one about your butt itching Mo, that cracked me up!

I just wanted to say that I agree about the palms itching meaning you'll get money - I go by left leaving, right recieving. I remember one time my left was really itchy and I was thinking "oh-oh, gonna lose my purse" and tried to be extra careful. I'd just been in a coffeshop with my boyfriend and when I got outside, realised I'd left my purse behind. Luckily, a man who sat at our table immediately after us gave it to the staff! Phew!

[Dragonfly]

I agree with the palm itching and go by the same theory as Purelight.

I was always told if you dropped silverware, it meant company was coming. Spoon was female...fork was male.

And the nose itching meant you were either going to kiss a fool or have a fight.

Funny the things we grow up with.

[Jace]

Okay here is a weird one. That my husband and I still chuckle about.

It seems my husbands dad broke out with some infection on both his feet/toe area. When my FIL called to consult Grandpa about it he said. Stop walking in the grass when there is Dew. The Dew is poison.

HUH???

I'll have to ask my husband about more his Fathers side of the family is very superstitious.

One more I heard when I was pregnant with my little guy. Don't raise your hands above your head because you'll strangle the baby.. OMG!!! I think this one was meant to get out of hanging clothes on the line LOL.

Cool topic!!! Thanks
-Jace

[Adrienne]

There is a Scottish tale that if your left knee itches the person sat diagnoal to it will become pregnant. happened to a girl at work too, so I can verify this one is true.....

[Idlewild]

Not sure if this classifys, but--
When my grandmother was young, she believed that if you stood on your head long enough your liver would turn over and you'd die.

Edited by Idlewild, 20 January 2005 - 02:21 AM.

[Sophie]

I've heard a lot of the "Old Wives Tales" that have all ready been mentioned,
here are a few I remember my Mom and Grandmother saying:

If you see a bird hits a window it's good luck....if it dies you'll have bad luck
 
It's good luck to find a four leaf clover.
 
If a dog howls at night it means someone you know will die   (my Mom truly believed in this)
 
When having colds and the flu.....you should feed a cold and starve a fever.
 

[mo10310]

A few more old wives tales....Its bad luck to put a hat on the bed...also bad luck to put your shoes on the kitchen table...I can see why...beds get sat on so you will flatten the hat...and of course putting your shoes on the table will get you a pop in the head from mom for getting dirt on her table...hahaha
bad luck to step on a crack on the sidewalk..step on a crack and break your mother's back...Oh no!!! Don't hang a picture with glass on it...If it falls and the glass breaks someone or family member will die...OH NO....Hot chicken soup helps cure a cold...thats good....Now for the palm itching...we always thought You receive money with the left hand..to get your change you put out your left..(for Me anyway) and you hand them the money to pay for items with your right...sooooo if your left palm itches you are supposed to rub the palm on wood...and then rub your a_s to come to pass....fill in the letter s in the a_s word...gotta um..MO

[Shannon]

Auntmama

I have a couple..

* I have NEVER read an old star sign in fear that it will bring me bad luck.

* If you break a mirror, you will have 7 years bad luck.. ( I am sure you have all heard that one)

* If you pull a funny face and the wind changes, you could be stuck like that forever

There ya go..

One more I heard when I was pregnant with my little guy. Don't raise your hands above your head because you'll strangle the baby.. OMG!!! I think this one was meant to get out of hanging clothes on the line LOL.

Now.. who was the clever woman that made up this wives tale? LOL I am going to remember this one..

[Sophie]

Mo your ( Don't hang a picture with glass on it...If it falls and the glass breaks someone or family member will die...OH NO) made me thing of break a mirror and you'll have five years of bad luck!

[Sophie]

  Auntmama

I have a couple..

* I have NEVER read an old star sign in fear that it will bring me bad luck.

* If you break a mirror, you will have 7 years bad luck.. ( I am sure you have all heard that one)

* It is bad luck to beleive in superstitions 

* If you pull a funny face and the wind changes, you could be stuck like that forever 

  There ya go..

Shannon I think we posted at the same time....Is it seven years bad luck? I thought it was five years but now that you say seven that sounds right.
Shannon your last one made me laugh...my Mom used to tell us to stop making faces or our face would freeze like that!

[Shannon]

Is it seven years bad luck? I thought it was five years but now that you say seven that sounds right.

I think seven is meant to be an unlucky number (yet another tale!) I always thought it was seven.. LOL.. who knows..

Oh, that reminds me, 13 is meant to be very unlucky!

[Shannon]

IT'S BAD LUCK TO BE SUPERSTITIOUS!

I that quote! LMAO

WOW! I found the A - Z dictionary of old wives tales! Link

Edited by Shannon, 20 January 2005 - 04:42 AM.

[mo10310]

Those are all good ones...how about don't walk under a ladder..bad luck...and don't let a black cat cross your path...My father in law would walk the other way and around the block to keep a black cat from crossing in front of him...haha then there's a stitch in time saves nine...never knew what that meant when I was a kid...now I do...and the forever popular don't run with a scissors in you hand you'll fall and stick your self....mo

[Shannon]

Those are all good ones...how about don't walk under a ladder..bad luck...and don't let a black cat cross your path...My father in law would walk the other way and around the block to keep a black cat from crossing in front of him...haha then there's a stitch in time saves nine...never knew what that meant when I was a kid...now I do...and the forever popular don't run with a scissors in you hand you'll fall and stick your self....mo

Isn't it just amazing how these tales spread thoughout the world and become so popular! I am sure there are not to many people who havn't heard about the tales you have just posted momo

Here are a good one from that link:

FRIDAY THE 13TH - how is fear of the number thirteen demonstarted?


More than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor.

Many airports skip the 13th gate.

Airplanes have no 13th aisle.

Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.

Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.

On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed
as 12 and a half.

Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue
In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.

Many triskaidekaphobes, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.

If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck . Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names.

[AuntMama]

I'm glad to see that everyone's having fun with this thread. I thought it'd be interesting.

I've always heard that it was 7 years of bad luck for breaking a mirror.

And I heard that if a bird flies inside of a house that it meant that someone was going to die.

Also, I was told if you make ugly faces that your face would stick like that.

I've heard alot of the ones you've all posted, but hadn't heard the one about the person diagonal being pregnant if your knee itches. That's pretty cool.


Here's another, if you're single, don't let anyone sweep under your feet or you won't get married that year.

Edited by AuntMama, 20 January 2005 - 04:59 AM.

[mo10310]

Oh Shannon don't forget the people that stay home and say an extra prayer on Friday the 13th... Concidered the worst bad luck day of the year...MO

[Jace]

Okay here is another freaky one from Grandpa.

If you loose a limb you have bury it or else it you will feel it forever.

There was another one about closing a pocket knife you didn't open, but he doesn't know what would happen, just know's his dad would get really upset.

[AuntMama]

I've heard the one about the pocket knife but can't think of what would happen, either. I'll ask my step father, I'm sure he's the one that told me it.

And Shannon, I agree that you bring your own bad luck to yourself if you believe that something is bad luck.

[AlisClan]

Heres one.. I always used to turn the first cig in my pack upside down, for good luck. And you had to wait to smoke that one untill it was the last in the pack. You all know how many people asked me for a ciggy and lighted the filter that way?

LMAO

How about personal riturals? Things you just did a certian way in a belief that doing it differant made a differance. God Im such a dork.

Anyway, I would get the paper, and read the comics starting with the last one, all the way thru to the first one, THEN I would read my horoscope. I thought by shaking things up a bit, I might get a bit of good luck. I made such a silly habit out of it that to this day, it seems wrong to read the comics in order!

[AlisClan]

Oh my lady neighbor told me that if someone is using a vacume and you raise your feet so they can vacume under your feet it means your gonna get married. LOL>

[Jace]

I just remembered another from school. If the finger nail on your ring finger on your left hand grows long and strong, then you have a good relationship with your b/f-spouse. If it breaks there's going to be break/arguement in the realtionship.

[AuntMama]

Ali, that is so funny about the comics. Reminds me of how when I was little I was a bit OCD (obsessive complusive disorder) and if I turned one direction I'd feel that I had to turn back that direction, kind of like back tracking. Which reminds me, I heard that if you enter a house through the front door that you should leave by the front door or it'd be bad luck.

I heard the same thing about the cigs and when I smoked, (I wasn't a regular smoker, just a social smoker), and for a while I would turn the first cig upside down.

And it's funny how you hear things differently like I heard that sweeping under your feet meant that you wouldn't get married and you heard that it means that you will get married.

[Shannon]

Heres one.. I always used to turn the first cig in my pack upside down, for good luck. And you had to wait to smoke that one untill it was the last in the pack.

We use to do that at school Ali!!! How crazy is that!!

[AlisClan]

LMAO Shannon! Worlds apart, its a new type of supersitiion and here we go doing that.. Too funny!

[jkell]

Anyway, I would get the paper, and read the comics starting with the last one, all the way thru to the first one, THEN I would read my horoscope. I thought by shaking things up a bit, I might get a bit of good luck. I made such a silly habit out of it that to this day, it seems wrong to read the comics in order!

I did the same thing!!! Woah.

I always thought 13 was good luck for me, and one of my favorite numbers is 7. Friday the 13 usually was a good day...mainly because it is Friday.

I know, I am weird....

Edited by jkell, 21 January 2005 - 04:41 PM.

[AuntMama]

Here are a few more that I just remembered...

If you drop a knife and the tip sticks in the floor, someone's going to die.

Open an umbrella inside and you'll have bad luck.

If it's foggy most of the mornings in August, it's supposed to mean that it's going to be a snowy winter. (I'm not sure that this was part of it or if I just added this... I relate the beginning of August with the beginning of winter, the middle with the middle and the end with the end.)

If the leaves on the trees turn over then it's going to rain soon.

I'm sure everybody's heard of knocking on wood for good luck, if you speak of something you want to happen.

And this is another one about cigs, if you light a cig and the end of it isn't lit all the way around, then it means that someone s you.

Anyone else have anymore?

[Jace]

  I did the same thing!!!  Woah.

I always thought 13 was good luck for me, and one of my favorite numbers is 7.  Friday the 13 usually was a good day...mainly because it is Friday.

I know, I am weird....

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't 13 the number of femine power, spiritually speaking? I always thought of 13 being lucky too, aside from the Friday the 13th Hystaria

[Jace]

What about if the cows are laying down it means it's going to rain. LOL when go past of pasture of cows and half are laying down and half are standing up, I tease my husband and say there's a 50 percent chance of rain!!

[AuntMama]

What about if the cows are laying down it means it's going to rain.  LOL when go past of pasture of cows and half are laying down and half are standing up, I tease my husband and say there's a 50 percent chance of rain!!