There must be hundreds of them.
Eating cheese late at night will cause you to have nightmares
The water that has had eggs boiled in it will give you warts
Masturbation sends you blind/causes hairs to grow on the palm of your hand;)
Touching a toad will also cause warts
A cleft chin…devil within
Small nose, small dick?..oh wait, that could be right.
Any more?
Big feet, big dick
Wait an hour after eating before you go into the water
My paternal grandmother told my mother not to let me look in a mirror as a baby or I’d become crosseyed. She also told her not to clip my fingernails with scissors or I’d turn into a thief. (Guess she was supposed to chew them off?)
Burning ears = someone talking about you
Itchy palm = you’re about to come into money
Eating crusts of bread will give you curly hair. (maybe that’s just how my grandmother got my mother to eat the crusts…)
Don’t wash your hair when you’re menstruating or you’ll end up in an insane asylum.
…and stop sitting to close to the TV, you’ll go blind
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Itchy palm = you’re about to come into money
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That’s your right hand only. I(f your left hand itches it means you’re going to get a huge bill
And if your crotch itches, then you are about to see a doctor.
When your nose is itchy, it means someone is talking about you.
I thought that was when your ears burn someone is talking about you…
Going out in the cold with wet hair will make you sick. Germs make you sick!
My maternal grandmother thought that one child stepping over another would cause the stepped-over child to stop growing.
Cats suck the breath out of babies.
Straight from my former MIL, the fount of Arkansas wisdom.
It;s bad luck to put a hat on a table
Itchy nose = company’s coming
Raising your hands while pregnant will wrap the cord around the baby’s neck.
Getting burned while pregnant will leave a birthmark on the baby.
Heartburn = dark hair/lots of hair on the baby.
Your Grandfather has wandered off and nobody has seen him for a week. Such a card, my Grandma.
Here’s the one I still get told by ma and it makes me want to scream. Rub bacon on that wart to get rid of it. It works. I hear this anytime somebody has a wart she thinks she can cure. They’d sell bacon as a wart remedy instead of acids or burning it off at the doctor’s office.
Asia: Fans running in a room suck out all the oxygen and you will suffocate.
Itchy nose: You’re about to kiss/be kissed by a fool
My grandma told me that if you dream of shit you’re about to come into money.
Killing a spider (inside?) will make it rain the next day.
You should never give a wallet or a purse without putting at least a penny in it.
If you see only one crow, it means you are going to have bad luck. You can negate this by greeting the crow though, “Hello, Mr. Bird!”
My grandmother always said that an itchy nose meant you were going to have a fight or kiss a fool. Of course for her, it was usually both, and always the same person, and happened every day whether her nose itched or not. 