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Old Wives Tales .

anna29

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Hi All .

New thread and topic for all forum members .

Pop any yesteryear or yesterdays tales you may know off - fact or fiction .

Any funny or strange,wonderful or even weird one's too.

Tell us any you may have stumbled across by chance or even heard/know off by accident !

Anna .
 
To start us all off - as a poor eater quite fussy and reluctant when young .
Both my mother and grandmother were always telling [nagging] me
to eat my crusts on the bread to make my hair grow curly and thicker and stronger .

I always wondered if this was really true too ? :eh:

Anna .
 
My dad was always telling me 'It's too cold to snow'. Where did that come from?

I think the bread crust thing must be the need to eat up every last morsel of food rather than let it go to waste. perhaps that's why I became overweight?
 
"Don't go out with wet hair or you'll catch a cold"
 
Don't eat nuts before bed or they'll lay on your chest keeping you awake for hours and hours.
 
Don't pull a face like that or it'll stay like it.
 
Cheese before bed will lead to nightmares.
 
Anyone ?
Remember the butter getting rubbed on a bashed lump on the head .

I well remember it making my hair 'greasy' ugh ...
Never really knew 'if' it helped my lumps go though ?

Anna .
 
anna29 said:
Anyone ?
Remember the butter getting rubbed on a bashed lump on the head .

I well remember it making my hair 'greasy' ugh ...
Never really knew 'if' it helped my lumps go though ?

Anna .
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Have you still got 'lumps'? :twisted:
 
gezzathorpe said:
Have you still got 'lumps'? :twisted:
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Haven't all girls got lumps? That's how you can tell them from the boys .. the lumpy jumpers are the clue :wink:
 

Seen some blokes with lumpy jumpers too
Manboobs!

Anna .
 
.... :lol: :lol:
 
'Don't swallow your chewing gum - it'll stick to your ribs.'

My granny always insisted that folks put a new penny into a gift of knives or anything sharp. Apparently it's bad luck to be given something that can sever. The blade, it's thought, will sever the friendship. It's especially bad luck for a wedding gift, where the fear is that the sharp edge will sever the marriage vows.

Giving a new baby, on your first meeting, a 'silver' coin. The baby's wrist is rubbed with the coin, then put under the pillow for luck

It's also bad luck to put new shoes onto a table..... because it invites one's imminent demise. :shock:
 

Luna21 these are all brilliant :clap:

Thank you for sharing them with us all .

Remember the chewing gum one, my grandma used to say the same thing! :thumbup:
I was always too scared to swallow it - as I believed this would happen to me if I did it :!:

Plus I still daren't put shoes on any surface except the 'floor' ...

Anna .
 
"Crossing someone on the stairs is bad luck"

I used to try and do this on purpose to annoy my parents lol !
 
Here's one to make you cry.

If you don't go to sleep Father Christmas won't come.

And my old favourite.
The cheques in the post.
 
lrw60 said:
Here's one to make you cry.

If you don't go to sleep Father Christmas won't come.

And my old favourite.
The cheques in the post.
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Ha! I used to love opening an umbrella indoors and watching my mum and sisters dive off as though there was an air raid.
 
Scabbie Wedding.

I remember as a child ,when the bride got into the car and as it drove of, it was a tradition for them to throw out a handful of coins . It was believed to bring financial luck.

I was lucky to be brought up near a load of churches, if the wedding cars did not throw out any coins we would all shout "Scabbie Wedding"

Roy,
 
I remember as a child ,when the bride got into the car and as it drove of, it was a tradition for them to throw out a handful of coins . It was believed to bring financial luck.
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In my part of the country it is either called a 'strive', 'scatter', or 'scramble' and it's still done today, though by the groom or the best man. It's not as popular as it once was....maybe the children of today are too well off to go scrambling in the grass and dirt for some pennies. :cry:
 
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