Old Wives Tales- Do You Remember Any?

Paladin1950

Paladin1950

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When my elder sister and I came in after playing outside in the snow, my mother would tell us to take our coats off, or we would catch a cold. Now when you come in from the cold, you would like to keep your coat on for awhile.

She would tell us if you touch a toad, you will get warts.

If you keep looking cross-eyed, you'll end up being really cross- eyed.

If you remove a scab from a wound a 2nd time, it will leave a scar. (I actually discovered sometimes, it only takes one time).

There was another one about having to bury your clothes in a hole in the backyard. But I can't remember why.
 

Paladin1950 said:
When my elder sister and I came in after playing outside in the snow, my mother would tell us to take our coats off, or we would catch a cold. Now when you come in from the cold, you would like to keep your coat on for awhile.

She would tell us if you touch a toad, you will get warts.

If you keep looking cross-eyed, you'll end up being really cross- eyed.

If you remove a scab from a wound a 2nd time, it will leave a scar. (I actually discovered sometimes, it only takes one time).

There was another one about having to bury your clothes in a hole in the backyard. But I can't remember why.
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Maybe when sprayed by a skunk?
 

Applying butter or grease to a burn. In reality, doing that is like basting a turkey, you are sealing in the heat. The proper method is to run clean cool water over the burn for at least 15 minutes, then dry the area, and cover it with a clean DRY dressing.
 
RadishRose said:
No hat on the bed
No shoes on the table
Dropped flatware means company- knife man. Fork woman. Spoon child.
No gift of pearl or knives without offering a minor amount to the giver.
Keep any 4 leaf clovers pressed inside a book.
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RadishRose said:
No hat on the bed
No shoes on the table
Dropped flatware means company- knife man. Fork woman. Spoon child.
No gift of pearl or knives without offering a minor amount to the giver.
Keep any 4 leaf clovers pressed inside a book.
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We must be 'cousins from another Mother '
'cause my Mom said all of 👆,too!
 
If you develop a wart, rub it with a damp dish cloth and bury the cloth in your yard. That one came from Granny, but she was an old wife.

The width of the rusty central stripe of a wooly bear caterpillar predicts how harsh the coming winter will be.
 
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Marie5656 said:
Going outside with no hat causes colds
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I can believe in that!

It's on old wives' tale to battle a rough hangover by drinking the "hair of the dog," also known as the alcohol that made you feel sick the night before. This belief is said to be rooted in the false old school idea that if you were bitten by a rabid dog, your rabies would be cured if you consumed a potion that contained some of the hair from the animal that had sunk its teeth into you or if you placed some of that dog's fur on the wound.
This advice isn't true in terms of rabies or hangovers. Having another alcoholic drink is likely only going to make you feel worse later on. It merely postpones your inevitable hangover.
 
Don't light three cigarettes on the same match. That was a biggie when I was a kid. Bad juju.

Always say Bless You or Gezunheit when someone sneezes. Old superstition says you're nearer to death or more susceptible to evil spirits when you sneeze.

My grandma always got upset when someone said, "If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to ......". That was tempting fate.
 
From my mother, who really believed the Old Wive’s Tales she espoused, such as:
- - Don’t sit too close to the TV set. - - You’ll go blind!
- - Don’t sit in the first row at a movie theater. - -You’ll go blind!
- - Boys should play outside without their shirts on in the summer,
because it’s insurance against winter colds. (Sun screens were
not used in those days, either)
- - If children in China (sometimes Africa) had the food that I didn’t
want to eat, they’d eat it with great relish and want more! 😸
 
jujube said:
From my grandmas:

Sitting on cold concrete will give you hemorrhoids.

If you give someone a purse as a gift, you should put a coin in it for good luck.

Don't walk in the house with only one shoe on.

If you both say the same thing at the same time, you have to link pinkie fingers with each other and say, "rabbit, rabbit".
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Sitting on cold anything WILL give you hemorrhoids. There’s truth to that.

Step on a crack and you’ll break your granny’s back. That’s an old wifes tale
 
My grandmother had several concerns and warnings that applied to electrical storms. Some of them were probably true for the times and our exposed location in the country.

Don’t use the telephone…

Don’t take a bath or do dishes…

Stay on the ground floor away from windows…

To this day one of my favorite things is to sit on the porch of a little cottage on a lake and watch a summer electrical storm.
 
Don’t swallow chewing gum, because it will stay in your body for seven years! 🙀

Not true! Now if you swallow lots of chewing gum often, it may conceivably form an obstruction, or if you swallow gum with other indigestible objects, you may get an obstruction. But swallowing a single piece?- -This too shall pass! 😸
 

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