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old wives tales
- Thread starter Motokid
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Sar
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Well, if we believed every health scare there was I don't think anyone would ever eat. When I was pregnant with my first child I was told to eat plenty of liver as it has lots of iron, by the second child I was told to make sure I didn't eat any liver as it was too high in vitamin A.
Some of the old wives tales I really find funny are the superstitions such as breaking a mirror, a black cat crossing your path, Friday the 13th & walking under a ladder (admittedly the mirror one makes more sense since I had the origin of it explained to me though)
Some of the old wives tales I really find funny are the superstitions such as breaking a mirror, a black cat crossing your path, Friday the 13th & walking under a ladder (admittedly the mirror one makes more sense since I had the origin of it explained to me though)
mehastings
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Jenem said:
No weather prediction is 100% accurate, but I've always found this one to be very true. I did a lot of solo sailing when I was a teenager and my dad made sure that I was careful about the weather. In fact, we had an embroidery of this warning hanging on the wall in my house at one point. I didn't know the science behind it though, so I looked it up. The Library of Congress has an easy to understand explanation.
I've heard that one about the pregnancy test too. Be careful though, because urine is full of ammonia.
I've always liked this one: circle your house with salt, starting in the west and then allow a white candle to fully burn during a full moon to keep bad luck/spirits/people/health out.
mehastings
Active Member
Motokid said:mehastings....rings of wicca or witchcraft....
Perhaps...
Think though, about the origin of the phrase Old Wive's Tale...
mr_michel
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a few from top of my head
if you are having an event on the open, you should burry some knifes (if you can get some machetes, is better) on the ground to avoid raining.
if someone sweep at your feet it'll scare away your good luck
if you want unwanted visitors to leave your house, you should put a broom behind of the door
when the owl sings, an indigenous person dies
there are some person which says to be sensitive to weather, so if they feel pain on the legs bones, it means its gonna rain
if you are having an event on the open, you should burry some knifes (if you can get some machetes, is better) on the ground to avoid raining.
if someone sweep at your feet it'll scare away your good luck
if you want unwanted visitors to leave your house, you should put a broom behind of the door
when the owl sings, an indigenous person dies
there are some person which says to be sensitive to weather, so if they feel pain on the legs bones, it means its gonna rain
honeydevil
Active Member
you ever heard that if you eat the seeds of a watermelon, you get pregnant, i thought that was rather funny...
oh and with the babies, before you go to the doctor or when you plan a baby just put salt on you window board (do you know what i mean? the thing outside your window, i don't know what it's called
) and you get a girl, you put pepper, you get a boy...
oh and with the babies, before you go to the doctor or when you plan a baby just put salt on you window board (do you know what i mean? the thing outside your window, i don't know what it's called
) and you get a girl, you put pepper, you get a boy...
mehastings
Active Member
honeydevil said:
I've never heard that one. I remember being told that eating the seeds would make a watermelon grow in your stomach. I even had a fat uncle who went so far as to inform me that he was skinny before eating watermelon seeds. Yep...
honeydevil
Active Member
oh holy, or do you know that one if you eat roh meat you get a worm?
tundra
New Member
mehastings said:
I never thought I'd get pregnant from eating watermelon seeds, or that a watermelon would grow in my stomach..but I was the gullible little sister who believed my sister when she told me a watermelon tree would grow in my stomach. A tree? Watermelon doesn't grow on trees. I was an idiot. I may still be an idiot, but for slightly different reasons...
lady.cordelia
New Member
well, i was told that watermelon or grapes would grow out of my ears if i ate the seeds. one time after dinner my mother was eating grapes and accidentally ate a seed. i joked with her and told her they would grow out of her ears. she was in the kitchen cleaning up and came out with a grape stuck in her ear, but didn't act like anything was strange or unusual just to see if i would notice and what i would do. i was little enough to freak out! LOL!
here are some others:
left hand itches you are getting some money (never heard the one about the right hand)
ears burning and someone is talking about you
pregnancy ones:
carry low and across it's a girl; carry high and round it is like a boy.
lots of heartburn means lots of hair.
i have heard the ones about chemicals and figuring out what the baby is, but never did that one myself.
as for the one about sleeping on the stomach to avoid a flat head, this is true, however very unsafe. in fact, since the "back to sleep" campaign, there has been a greater incidence of plagiocephaly (misshapen head) due to babies sleeping on their backs, but there are ways to prevent this and still keep them sleeping on their backs, which is the safest sleeping position for a baby. you can reposition them, turn their cribs or basinets, put them on their sides using a positioner, etc. however, i just used an Amby bed with my last, which is a baby hammock and this always produces beautiful round heads, good-sleeping, happy babies, with little to no colic or reflux problems when sleeping, and is all around the most wonderfully invented contraption i have ever seen (and endorsed by the SIDS foundation of America and Dr. Sears); just wish i had known about it with my girls (not for their heads, but because they all had bad reflux). my baby boy gets comments all the time about what a perfectly round head he has. but i digress
here are some more:
if you make a face for too long your face will stick in that position.
of course there are the ones about "being the master of your domain" and how it can make you turn to stone, get green hands, make you sterile, etc. - any number of ridiculous things.
oh, and another one i heard when i was little was if i saw a naked man before i got married i would go blind!
here are some others:
left hand itches you are getting some money (never heard the one about the right hand)
ears burning and someone is talking about you
pregnancy ones:
carry low and across it's a girl; carry high and round it is like a boy.
lots of heartburn means lots of hair.
i have heard the ones about chemicals and figuring out what the baby is, but never did that one myself.
as for the one about sleeping on the stomach to avoid a flat head, this is true, however very unsafe. in fact, since the "back to sleep" campaign, there has been a greater incidence of plagiocephaly (misshapen head) due to babies sleeping on their backs, but there are ways to prevent this and still keep them sleeping on their backs, which is the safest sleeping position for a baby. you can reposition them, turn their cribs or basinets, put them on their sides using a positioner, etc. however, i just used an Amby bed with my last, which is a baby hammock and this always produces beautiful round heads, good-sleeping, happy babies, with little to no colic or reflux problems when sleeping, and is all around the most wonderfully invented contraption i have ever seen (and endorsed by the SIDS foundation of America and Dr. Sears); just wish i had known about it with my girls (not for their heads, but because they all had bad reflux). my baby boy gets comments all the time about what a perfectly round head he has. but i digress
here are some more:
if you make a face for too long your face will stick in that position.
of course there are the ones about "being the master of your domain" and how it can make you turn to stone, get green hands, make you sterile, etc. - any number of ridiculous things.
oh, and another one i heard when i was little was if i saw a naked man before i got married i would go blind!
lady.cordelia
New Member
i thought of a couple of others
different types of positions would guarantee a girl or boy
eating different types of food would guarantee a girl or boy (although i heard medically this one has a bit of warrant as certain foods change the pH environment of the female reproductive system, which makes it more or less adaptable for different-sexed sperm)
different types of positions would guarantee a girl or boy
eating different types of food would guarantee a girl or boy (although i heard medically this one has a bit of warrant as certain foods change the pH environment of the female reproductive system, which makes it more or less adaptable for different-sexed sperm)
Dogmatix
New Member
Some er.... delightful ones from the veterinary community.
"If you piss on a biscut and feed it to a dog, he'll never run away from home."
"If you feed a dog a plug of chewing tobacco (pronouced terbacky) you'll cure his worms."
(Personally I don't know of many dogs that like peed on biscuts or chewing tobacco)
"If you piss on a biscut and feed it to a dog, he'll never run away from home."
"If you feed a dog a plug of chewing tobacco (pronouced terbacky) you'll cure his worms."
(Personally I don't know of many dogs that like peed on biscuts or chewing tobacco)