Old Wive's Tales
This entry was posted on 11/15/2009 8:49 PM and is filed under Science, Urban Legends, Health, Old Wives' Tales.
For your entertainment, here is a list of old wives tales and superstitions. People have actually believed each of these statements, but virtually all of them are fiction.
Exactly two of them are based upon facts and science. Can you tell which two?
- If a teen has acne, it means that he or she is sexually active.
- If you eat cabbage, you will grow large breasts.
- If you eat spinach, you will become as strong as Popeye.
- Wearing green to a wedding is bad luck.
- If you give knives as a gift, then you should include a coin or the relationship will be severed.
- If you see a penny pick it up, and all day long you will have good luck.
- Only a coin with the head side up is good luck.
- A bird that flies into your house or dies by flying into your window signals impending death.
- It’s bad luck to put a hat on a bed.
- Don’t get up on the wrong side of the bed; always use the same side to get in and out.
- If you break a mirror, you will have seven years of bad luck.
- If your nose itches, then company is coming.
- If you drop a knife, then a man will come to visit.
- If you drop a fork, then a woman will come to visit.
- Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
- Thunderstorms spoil milk.
- Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Feed a cold; starve a fever.
- Don’t feed milk to a child with a cold, because it will help create more phlegm.
- Tickling children will cause them to stutter.
- Rub a stick of butter on a burn to help it heal.
- Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.
- If you sing before seven, you will cry before eleven.
- Red sky at night, sailor’s delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
You can find a much longer list of old wives tales and superstitions
here.
