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"Ugly in the cradle, pretty at the table",..."If you laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before nightfall"...hmmm, cheerful.
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If you get a bump on the tongue someone has told a lie about you.
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If your make a funny face, or cross your eyes, they will freeze that way.
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If you masturbate, you will go blind and grow hair on the palms of your hands (looking at my hands).
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Not to put cream on a baby with your 'poisonous finger' (middle finger)
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Someone once told me, when my wife got pregnant for the 1st time, that if she got ugly then we were having a girl because girls 'steal' their mom's prettiness. If she remained pretty then we were having a boy.
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Don't put too much vinegar on salad...it will dry up your blood...(one of my mother's! )LOL
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"knock on wood" ... or else? well, i never heard exactly how bad the outcome would be, so i still knock on wood to this day!
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When I was pregnant, I was told that if I put a paper clip on a string and held it above my belly and the paper clip went up and down it was a boy and if it went in circles it was a girl....LOL it went in circles, and I had a boy anyways.
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My grandmother got always upset if I was sitting and raised both my arms, like when I wanted to stretch them, because I was "asking for a tragedy or disaster to take place!". She also said that you should never point your finger at a new, developing fruit that was hanging from a tree, because it will cause that fruit to dry and fall. That's a powerful finger!
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That it is can be harmful for a woman to bathe or swim during her menstural period. If you don't bathe, that is just plain nasty.
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Craziest: god exists. Favorite: none. Superstitions are a huge waste of time.
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Sitting too close to the t.v. will make you blind. Same goes for masterbation. I spent years "toggling the dial" mear inches away from that screen.
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chain letters
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I don't believe in superstitions... That's bad luck
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Kill a spider and it will rain.
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Breastfeeding is a great contraceptive. Eating black pepper will drive you to drink. If you dream of eggs it means someone near you is pregnant.
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My grandfather, who is an otherwise intelligent man, thinks that if you run over a snake with your car poison will stay on your tires and get into you the next time you change the tire. (At least it keeps him from running over snakes)
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If you cuddle your children, they'll grow up to be invalids.
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i think that the absolute stupidest that i ever ran across was during my sailing days.that if you whistled while on board ship that it would bring a terrible storm.you could almost be thrown overboard for that offence on one ship that i sailed on.
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If you douche with Coca Cola after sex you won'r get pregnant.
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A new world record has been set. A 67-year-old woman has just given birth to twins, making her the world's oldest mother. The mother, whose name has not been released at the time of this writing, gave birth in Barcelona, Spain, The previous record holder was a 66-year-old Romanian who gave birth in 2005. The mother and babies were reported to be doing fine, although the babies were reportedly dying of senesence.
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Tie a knot in your handkerchief to quiet katydids.
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When an expecting woman gets heartburn, it means the fetus is growing hair. Like many a times while watching Myth Busters, I was surprised to learn that this one is real.
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The strangest ever was a cure for warts. On the new moon at midnight, cut a potato in half, rub both cut sides on the wart and then burry the potato. The wart will disappear in a couple of days. I've always wanted to try this to see if it works, but I've never gotten a wart.
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if your hand is itchy it means you're coming into some money
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My grandmother used to say that chicken feathers attract lightning. We could not sleep with feather pillows during storms.
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Cats will steal a baby's breath. Drop a horse hair in a rain barrel and it will start swimming in a day or two. If the feathers in your pillow form circles, someone will die with his head on it. If you use the wood in a stove or fireplace that has been struck by lightening you will have much trouble. A whistling girl and a crowing hen will always come to a bad end.
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The onion pregnancy test. If you can eat an entire raw onion and not throw up then you may be pregnant. :-/
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If you get your hair cut during the growing phase of the moon, you'll get a bad haircut and your hair will grow too fast.
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Wait 30 minutes after you eat to go swimming.
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My grandma beleived if you swallowed an ice cube it would burn a hole through your stomach.
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The most bizarre one I ever heard was that if a woman put her menstrual blood in chili that she cooked and fed it to a man he would fall in love with her!
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If cows are laying in a field, it's going to rain.
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if someone is sweeping and accidentally sweep your feet with the broom you have to spit on the broom so you dont get bad luck ...so stupid!
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If you vote, then this will be a democracy.
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If you take a baby's urine filled diaper and rub it on your face it will cure acne. WTF! I used Zest soap and table salt. :D
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You will get a eye stye if you pee in the road. Yes Southern People are nuts.
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This is sick, but I was told once that if a girl puts their blood from their period in chili or some food and gives it to a guy, that guy will fall in love with them. They supposedly do this in Louisiana
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that if you swallow gum it will stick to your intestines my mom told me that...
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the weirdest one i've ever encountered is this: my boyfriend's grandmother says to never cut your toenails after dark, because it opens an entryway for satan. my boyfriend isn't all that religious, but having been told this since he was little- he refuses to cut his toenails at night! they're muslim and from pakistan, btw, so this is an international old wives tale.
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You callin' my wife 'old'? She's stranger than most, alright, but I dunno about 'old'! ;-)
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If you eat the crusts of your bread, you will have curly hair....!
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If a pregnant woman raises her arms the umbilical cord gets wrapped around the baby's neck
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If you have a stye on your eye, walk to the fork in the road and say...."Stye, stye, get off my eye, jump onto the next person who passes by..." and it will go away.
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If it thunders in October, it will snow in April.
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this might not sound true but it happened to me, actually i wont tell cause u wont believe me hope this helps
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if u have unprotected sex u might get pregnant this is the worste old wives tale ive ever heard hope this helps
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If you put flakes of your own dead skin in someones food or drink, they will fall in love with you. (presumably not if they ever found out...)
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If you say a bad word, you'll get a canker sore!!!
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When my infant was collicky, his dad's mom took him and passed him back and forth through the legs of the kitchen table. She said that would cure it. She also wanted to put pee in his ear when he had an ear infection and told me to light a Marlboro and blow the smoke into his ear and that would cure it. The same family also says they had a Grandmother that could "talk" the pain out of a burn and she told them to never put on cream or ointment with their "dog finger" (pointer). Apparently, the entire family went to Granny Clampett Medical University. I love to listen to them. And no, I didn't allow pee or smoke in my babies ears!!
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That raw potatoes heal warts if you hold one on the wart and then bury it in the yard. Or spitting on a wart too. Gross! Good thing I have never had one! I don't want to do either!
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That if you kill a snake and throw it in a stream, it will rain.
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If you swallow a watermelon seed a watermelon will grow in your belly. Or if your ears are burning someone is talking about you. For good luck throw salt over your shoulder.
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the cat can take the babys breath away
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If you go to bed with wet hair, you'll get sick. If you go outside with wet hair, you'll get sick. Masturbation will make you go blind. Cats suck a baby's breath away. Siamese cats are mean and attack people. I grew up with Siamese cats..my mother and sister loved the breed..and those cats were NEVER mean to anyone. They were quite the opposite, affectionate to anyone who interacted with them.
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That if someone faints you should spread a black silk scarf over their face.
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wiping urine on a babies face to remove/avoid freckles.
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