All children should wear green on St. Patrick’s Day for good luck. If you don’t wear green, beware! You might get pinched by someone else as a kind of playful punishment for not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day.

There are several superstitions associated with St. Patrick’s Day. Leprechauns, or lobairein which means small bodied fellow, are little men (about as tall as a pencil) who live in the mountains of Ireland. They live alone in the forest and make shoes for a living. If you can catch one, he will give you a pot of gold or he will grant you good luck for the rest of the day for his release.

The music of the Leprechauns is very bewitching to anyone who hears it.

If you find a four leaf clover, and keeps it with you, then you will have very good luck. More on four leaf clovers HERE.

Romantic minded Irish are in search of the Blarney stone. The Irish legend says an old women was drowning. A king saved her and the woman cast a spell on a stone to reward the king. The stone is set in the wall of the Blarney Castle. A kiss of this stone brings the kisser the gift of persuasive talk. The kisser is then able to speak in a sweet and convincingly manner to get what ever he wants. Talking blarney is a saying that accompanies a person who can convince you of almost anything.

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• Birth is made easier if all the locks in the house are open and you keep an axe under the bed.
• A child born feet first or breech, will be lamed in an accident.
• A baby that is born feet first will have healing abilities.
• Firstborn children are protected from witchcraft.
• Babies born at midnight can see ghosts.
• A baby born when the moon is rising will be a girl.
• Thursday has one lucky hour, just before sunrise, for birth.
• Babies born on Sunday cannot be harmed by evil spirits.
• Babies born at night will stay awake at night.
• A baby born from a red water sac is believed to have great powers and double sight.
• A baby born with big ears will be generous.
• A baby born with open hands and out-stretched fingers will be prosperous.
• A baby born with a large mouth will be a good singer.
• A baby born with teeth could be a vampire.

First a daughter, then a son,
The World is well begun.
First a son, then a daughter,
Trouble follows after.

Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is sour and sad,
Thursday’s child is merry and glad,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child must work for a living;
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is blithe and bonny, good and gay.

Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace
Wednesday child is full of woe
Thursday’s child has far to go
Friday’s child is caring and giving
Saturday’s child works hard for a living
But the child that’s born on the Sabbath day
is fair and wise and good and gay.

(Some put it, Sunday’s child shall never know want.)

He who is born on New Year’s morn
Will have his own way as sure as you’re born.

He who is born on an Easter morn
Shall never know want, or care, or harm.

A child born on a saint’s day must bear the saint’s name. It is
unlucky to take away the day from it.
Catholic superstition.

It is good luck to:

• Carry a baby upstairs when first taking it out into the world.
• Have a baby born with a caul.
• Spit on a newborn baby.
• Rub a baby’s head with money.
• Kiss a newborn baby.
• Have a baby sneeze.
• Have a baby first clasp something using it’s right hand.
• Brush your baby with a rabbit’s foot.
• Put a string of coral beads around your baby’s neck.
• Give a new baby a gift of bread or salt.

It is bad luck to:

• Carry a baby downstairs when first taking it into the world.
• Weigh a newborn baby.
• Let babies see themselves in a mirror before they are six months old.
• Dress a baby in black.
• Cut a baby’s nails before it is twelve months old.
• Dress a baby by putting clothes over its head instead of its feet.
• Watch a baby as it sleeps.
• Give away all a baby’s clothes when you have finished with them.
• Wean a baby in early spring.
• Carry a child on the left side.
• Step over a crawling infant.
• Let a cat in the room of a newborn baby.
• Wash a baby’s hands before it is twelve months old.

To hold a newborn baby while menstruating would cause the baby strain.