Bolding Mine
I think the bolded part might have some scientific accuracy to it so I will be trying it tonight and for the next few days as an experiment.
-Killing a crow is bad mojo because it was someones soul. Eating a crew is even worse because you just ate someones soul.
If you play with matches, you’ll wet the bed.
In all my years, I’ve not heard this anywhere except in my own family…until a few days ago, when a friend mentioned it. Is it a common one, or no?
I don’t know about common but my childhood friends dad said he could tell when Perry played with fire because he’d pee the bed
Don’t buy a man shoes. He’ll walk out on you.
Women wearing red are whores. (okay, that was my dad back in the day)
And most definitely don’t ever knit him a jumper/sweater/pullover, especially in a complicated pattern. He’ll not only walk out on you, he’ll more than likely toss the thing in the washing machine.
I heard the horseshoe thing as a kid but it had to be a horseshoe that you found; buying one got you nothing.
Opening an umbrella inside a house is bad luck is basically true because they usually open quickly; they become ever so much larger when opened and no one pays any attention to the consequences attendant on opening one: It is almost a certainty that something will be knocked off a table or something will be broken or a shirt ripped or an eye poked out, etc., etc.
While in Korea, I heard the running of a fan in a room will cause death; to my surprise, a Haitian nurse I knew swore it was true; she was astonished to hear that Koreans believed it as well.
Another one I used to hear was that moving a used broom to a new house caused bad luck. I think it had something to do with the old saying that a new broom sweeps clean.
If you moved and took your cat with you, to ensure the cat wouldn’t try to go back to the old place, you coated the cat’s paws with butter. The theory was that by the time the cat had licked all the butter away, it was comfortable with its new surroundings and would stay.
I used to believe that if you killed a snake and tried to touch it before nightfall, it would still be able to bite you.
My grandmother used to say that a summer thunderstorm would curdle milk but I never saw any evidence of that one being true.
My mother told me that one, too.
My grandmother would always tell us that fish and milk at the same meal was poison.
If you cut a baby boy’s hair before his first birthday, he’ll go bald earlier.
Yeah, I’ve heard this one, as well as the itchy nose = kiss a fool. I don’t know if it’s a geographical thing - I grew up in suburban Baltimore.
Yes, I’ve heard this one too. That doesn’t mean it is common though.
This is so it will never be empty of money (I only heard this from a friend a little while ago).
Chocolate/fries and gravy will give you boils on the butt or zits on your face.
Dropping cutlery means you will soon have visitors (what sort doesn’t correlate to what gender will arrive, just visitors…).
If you sing at the supper table you’ll go crazy. (I think Grandma just wanted us to stop singing…)
Tickling a baby will make him or her stutter when s/he starts talking.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water
If you see a thousand-legger (centipede), close your mouth quick, or it will count your teeth which will either cause them all to fall out or else kill you outright.
Copperheads smell like sour pickles.
Blacksnakes are aggressive and will chase and bite you if they get a chance.
You can “wool” a puppy or kitten to death by petting or holding it too much.
And then he’ll be a mile away and he’ll have your shoes!
Around here, if you wait 10 days in the winter, you’ll get snow, regardless of whether there was a thunderstorm or not!
My SO’s family was raised to “believe” that giving a knife (or knife set) was bad luck, so the receiver had to “buy” them by giving money to the giver. A penny would do, as long as it wasn’t a gift.
Explains most of the population of Québec… 
Fair enough. I heard this one in North Carolina, where we don’t typically get a lot of snow.
And in the spirit of luv2draw’s post, you have to eat black-eyed peas and greens on New Years Day. The peas are for luck and the greens (collard, turnip, mustard, whatever) are for money.
Somebody I know hosts a NYE party every year. He does this as well. But I don’t understand. If you can only eat one grape on each strike, doesn’t that mean that you basically have to inhale the last one in like, what, a half second? :rolleyes:
My mother is a fan of Bingo, and she has about a thousand superstitions to go along with it:
Don’t rest your purse on the table, it’s bad luck.
Don’t leave your dabber cap on the table face down: leave it face up so money can pour in.
And about a zillion kapskillion others, which is only one reason why I can’t understand the appeal of Bingo…
My grandmother from Wales rhymed, “Nose itches, nose itches, someone’s coming with a hole in his britches.”
My grandfather wouldn’t let us eat cherries with milk. The combo was sure to cause ulcers.
But he must be carrying a lump of coal and some salt.
If you see a single magpie you must salute it or it’s bad luck all day.
It might be a reference to the Macdonald triad, which says that someone who wets the bed, plays with fire, and is cruel to animals is more likely than others to be a sociopath.