If you shave your head on a Saturday, you will always be in debt.

You shouldn’t wash your hair the day before a test.

If you ever cut your hair at the waning of the moon, it won’t grow luxuriantly.

Hair cut off should always be burned; it is unlucky to throw shorn hair away; otherwise, birds might make a nest of your hair, weaving tightly, so that you would have difficulty rising on your last day.

Choosing to cut your hair (or nails) on a particular day means the following:

• cut them on Monday, you cut them for health;
• cut them on Tuesday, you cut them for wealth;
• cut them on Wednesday, you cut them for news;
• cut them on Thursday, a new pair of shoes;
• cut them on Friday, you cut them for sorrow;
• cut them on Saturday, see your true love tomorrow;
• cut them on Sunday, the devil will be with you all the week.

If the finger or toe nails of an infant are cut previous to the age of 12 months, it will prove a thief in mature age.

Friday cut hair, Sunday cut horn, better that man had never been born!

If a lock of hair over the forehead (widow’s lock) be cut before marriage, the girl will be a widow.

In seventeenth century England it was believed that if the fingernails of a sick person were mixed with wax, and this wax was fixed on the door of another person before sunrise it would transfer disease from one person to another. Sometimes the clipping of hair and nails of a child tied up in linen cloth were kept under the cradle in the firm belief that it would cure convulsions. It was also believed that if the crown of the head was shaved and the ahir hung upon a bush, the birds would carry it away along with the cough that patient was suffering from.

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