Why , how would that have occurred. Lice from the hat? A guy coming into your bedroom? What supernatural powers do hats have off of heads? Might you sit on them?
No opening umbrellas in the house. That one made sense! We opened our umbrellas on the porch going out the door. When you live in 3 small room, you don't have room to open umbrellas up. Those umbrellas stayed on the porch hanging up in a row.
Never take a broom along when you move. Throw it out and buy a new one. Yes! We obeyed that one too. My mother made a point of doing that. Leaving the broom behind. I do that too. I left my broom behind, and bought a new one. Just makes perfect sense to me, never questioned it.
It is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same match. I remember that one! My grandmother told me that came from the foxholes in WW1. If you lit matches for too long, the enemy could get a fix on you and shoot. I found that comforting to know as a child. Some inside knowledge that would help me when I grew up, in case I ran into trench warfare in my time.
It is bad luck to kill a ladybug. I was taught that one too. Bad luck to kill spiders too. My grandmother said t is because they eat bad bugs and mosquitoes. We didn't kill spiders we took them outside on pieces of paper. And we brought crickets onto the porch because crickets in the house brought you good luck.
You sleep best with your head to the north and your feet to the south. My husband believes this one. We set our beds up this way, long before there was something called Feng Shui. You have to reverse it in the southern hemisphere.
A watermelon will grow in your stomach if you swallow a watermelon seed. Our grandpa told us that one. We ate a lot of watermelon and worried about the seeds endlessly. :)
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