Cutting your nails on Friday or Sunday is bad luck. Fingernail clippings should be saved, burned, or buried to prevent bad luck.
You shouldn’t jog. It jumbles up your insides.
If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of fall, you will not get sick that whole winter.
Use the same pencil for taking a test as was used for studying for the same test. The pencil will remember the answers.
Dropping a pair of scissors means that your lover is seeing someone behind your back.
The lines on the palm of your right hand that show an “X” represent the number of children you will have.
It’s bad luck to wish an actor good luck. Instead it’s often said, “Break a leg,” Knock ‘em dead,” and “See you on the green.”
Macbeth is thought to be the most unlucky play ever. Actors would never refer to it by name, instead calling it Mr. and Mrs. M. or That Play.
Cats can steal the air from a baby’s mouth.
While nursing a baby boy, the mother must make sure that no milk falls onto his penis or else he will become impotent.
If a grave digger walks toward you it means you will become very seriously ill.
It was later thought that tobacco would cure anything from bad breath to cancer.
There is a spooky old wives tale that suggests if the eyes of a dead person are left open, he or she will find someone to take with them. The closing of the deceased eyes started with this old wives tale, and so, through the decades we have continued to close the eyes of the deceased.
If you walk anywhere wearing only shoe, it’s a sign that one of your parents is about to die.
If you dream that you are falling and do not wake up before you hit the ground, you will die in your sleep during the dream.
If you dream of a birth, someone in your family will die.
Only the left hind foot of a rabbit that was shot or caught in a cemetery during a particular phase of the moon is considered lucky so odds are your rabbit's foot is not.
Be sure that someone says “God Bless you” when you sneeze to drive the devil away or he may enter your body.
Female children are responsible for making their mothers feel and look ill because women are always in competition.
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boo.. I hope not..
