OLD WIVES TALES

Hi all I'm very superstious this is what i have:

if you walk under a ladder you'll recieve bad luck

its also bad luck to open an umbrella inside or under a roof,

if a black cat crosses you something bad will happen,

if a crow hangs around you, someone you know will die,

if you put new shoes on a table you'll recieve bad luck

don't pass the salt from hand to hand it passes bad luck

breaking a mirror gives you 7 years bad luck

if you have severe heart burn your baby will have lots of dark hair

if your round in front like a basketball its a boy

if you carrying high its a girl

if you baby is over due they will always be late

if your baby is early they with rush things

sitting on cold concrete gives you piles

dying your hair or using any chemicals when pregnant can harm your unborn baby

sitting to close to the telly will cause bad eyesight (not square eyes : ) )

carrots help you see at night

spinach makes your muscles stronger

bakedbeans are good for your heart and for flatulance lol

drinking water when bloated reduces water retention

too much salt can cause a build of fluid in your feet like oedema

not enough salt causes cramping in your joints

lemon juice helps cuts and abrasions heal quicker.

eating bread crusts give you curly hair

if your clumsy your children are pre desposed to be clumsy

now i'm not sure if any of them are actually true but alot of them actually work for me, lemon juice healed a cut i had in 2 days, i stopped having salt and had severe cramping in my joints, i started drinking more water when bloated it reduced the water weight, carrots do help your night vision, sitting too close or watching too much t.v does damage your eyesight, im 22 and wear glasses for longsightedness, chemicals induced or inhaled during pregnancy can harm your baby, i was born late and had to learn to be on time for things, i had heartburn, my dd was born with thick black curls, passing salt, putting shoes on a table and walking under a ladder do cause bad luck, i've done it, i've never seen a black cat or put an umbrella up under a roof to test that one, i always eat the crusts on bread and both dd and i have curly hair, but that is from genetic traights being passed down. alot of O W T are all about whether or not you believe in it, i was braught up with superstious mother and grandmother. I steer clear of ladders and crows, and black cats, refrain from passing the salt or asking for it lol, they are a lot of fun though

 

heres a few i know

if u have a sty in your eye rub it with a gold ring and it will go away - i do this every time i get a sty and it goes away, could be a placebo but it works for me.

for good luck never give a handbag or purse/wallet as a gift without some coins in it

if a bird flying into ur house or sits out side your house and squarks repetivly its a sign that sumone will die that u know

if u lose an eye lash place it on ur finger tip and blow it away and make a wish

if u pull out grey hairs 10 more grow back in their place

xoxo

 

My daughter is 8 months old and still has no teeth! I was told the other day by my grandma,

No teeth yet is a good thing, the longer they take to come in, the stronger they will be in life.

 

My Mother in law was talking to me the other day and told me one of her old wives tales. She said she told it to her daughter and it worked. when you cut yourself and it won't stop bleeding, douse it in pepper and put a bandaid over it. change the bandaid everyday for a week and it will be healed.

I am not sure if I am game to try it, or to cut myself bad enough to warrant it.

my Mother-in-law had lots of 'bits of wisdom'

you would go into labor the day before - the day of or the day after a moon change

take a babies bottle away when the signs were in the knees and when they were in the feet they were through with the bottle ( the signs that are in an almanac )

when it turned cool, the storm was over

don't wash clothes on January 1st... somebody you love will die that year.

eat black-eyed peas Jan 1st and you won't go hungery that year.

 

i spent ages reading all these o w t  but i didn't see this one and i would be interested to see if anyone else ever got told that if you sit on cold cement you would get piles.
we were always told that and it wasn't until i was 17 that i found out what piles were and i was 25 before i found out it wasn't true.

someone who's pregnant is another way to get pregnant. I worked with a girl who was pregnant, and sat down on the seat after her, and fair enough, i got pregnant about 3 weeks after.

There were other workers in there, and told me not to sit on the seat aswell as i would get pregnant and they were right also. I got told this by mum when i was about 15

i was told by a fiend if your childs first word is dad you will ahve a boy next if your childs first word is mum you will have a girl next

my first 2 boys said dad first my 3 boy said mum first then i had a girl

not sure if true or not but worked for me

This one is so funny. I was 19 and had a cuppa with my nan and i was telling her how i was enrolled in tafe to do my accounting. I got up and dropped my teaspoon in the kitchen. My nan blasfeamed and said you watch it girl you'll get pregnant now. and you know what 7 weeks later the vomiting started and i saw my doc, i was 6 weeks pregnant. i saw my nan again and she said tea Liz and i said no milo please as tea made me feel ill, she looked at me and said oh no your not. i said yep march 19 they say and getting married in 6 weeks. she laughted and said its all cause you dropped the tea spoon in the kitchen.

Dont drop teaspoons

for a good year and a half any couple who walked into my house and had a drink with us no matter tea coffee water ect they ended up pregnant within the next month. In this time we has 6 couples i think who were at their whits end and about to go through IVF or give up fell pregnant. this also included our fish. In the end we had so many baby fish we had to pull apart my study and get 6 more tanks. we made a bunch off it but also brought the price of fish down a lot in Perth. LOL moral of the story Buy fish, get them to breed and your house will become fertile. I will add that i was already pregnant with Charlie at the time.