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Bees
If a bee enters your home, it’s a sign that you will soon have a visitor. If you kill the bee, you will have bad luck, or the visitor will be unpleasant. A swarm of bees settling on a roof is an omen that the house will burn down. “If bees stay at home, rain will soon come. If they flay away, fine will be the day.” – Folklore/Proverb … Read entire article »
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Coffee
A cup of coffee can predict the weather. If the bubbles form in the middle, it will be sunny and fair weather. If the bubbles form around the outside of the cup, the weather will be changing and rain or snow is on the way. The truth to this is that in high pressure, the surface of the coffee concaves, forcing bubbles to the center thereby signaling fair weather and sunshine. In low pressure, the surface … Read entire article »
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Black Cats and Cats in General
BLACK CATS We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. (In Turkey it’s believed that you can reverse the bad luck by holding a part of your hair when it happens.) This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. A black cat crossing one’s path by moonlight means death in an epidemic. – Irish superstition King Charles … Read entire article »
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Golf
If you are an avid golfer, some things to keep in mind in order to have a good luck outing are to set out for golfing on a rainy day and start your round with odd numbered clubs. Don’t use golf balls numbered higher than four. It’s bad luck for the golfer to borrow their partner’s umbrella. … Read entire article »
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Inside Out or Backwards
If you accidentally find yourself wearing or doing something inside out or backwards, you’re in for a pleasant surprise! But you must not correct yourself. New Jersey children believe that if you wear your pajamas to bed inside out and backwards it’s sure to snow during the night. … Read entire article »
Weddings and Marriage
The keyword “marriage” is tagged in many superstitions on the site. Find those posts HERE Day of the Wedding and During the Ceremony: Good luck Ukrainian: If it rains on your wedding day you will grow wealthy. Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. A bride must step over the church sill with her right foot. As the bride leaves the home she should step over the thresh hold with her right foot. Old slippers or rice (for fertility) must be thrown after a bride for good luck. It is good luck to see a chimney sweep on the way to church. Bad Luck If the groom drops the wedding band during the ceremony, the marriage is doomed. It is unlucky to drop the ring at the marriage ceremony. If it rains on the wedding, the bride will cry all … Read entire article »
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Ashes
See also FIRE In the home: Scattering ashes over the roof of a house protects it against thunder and lightning. Sweeping out ashes on Christmas is bad luck. Sweeping out ashes on a Friday is bad luck. Sweeping out ashes after four in the afternoon is bad luck. Crops: Spreading ashes on crops at Midsummer brings a good harvest. Scattering human ashes to the wind helps crops. Livestock: Mixing ashes into the food of livestock makes animals strong and healthy. Divination Smooth out the ashes of the hearth on New Year’s Eve and in the morning look for shapes found there. Image: Footprints leading toward the door = death in the family Image: Footprints leading away from the door = a birth Image: A ring = a wedding Image: A coffin = a death … Read entire article »
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Ascension Day
According to the Christian calendar, Ascension Day represents the day Christ ascended to heaven and occurs on the Thursday following the fifth Sunday after Easter. Working on Ascension Day is bad luck and brings about accidents. Weather Omens: Sun on Ascension Day foretells a long hot summer. Rain on Ascension Day means cattle will suffer disease and crops will fail. On Ascension Day clouds form the image of a lamb. Eggs: Eggs laid on Ascension Day will never go bad. Eggs laid on Ascension Day and placed on the roof will bring good luck for the whole year. Gifts: If you make a gift to the blind or poor you will be blessed with great wealth during the year. Cures: Biting into the bark of a peach tree at midnight on Ascension Day cures goiter. Rain collected on Ascension Day … Read entire article »
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Frogs
A frog coming into the house is lucky – some say good luck, some say bad luck. Finding a frog outside is lucky. Touching a frog makes you infertile. Carrying the bones of a frog that has been ritually killed gives you magic abilities. Putting a frog tongue on a person while they sleep will make them reveal their secrets to you. Cures: Put a live frog in the patient’s mouth to cure thrush with the frog’s breath. Wear the body of a dried frog or powered frog livers around your neck in a silk bag to avoid epilepsy. Swallow live young frogs to cure weakness, consumption and cancer. Rub a live frog on warts and impale the frog on a tree to die to make warts go away. To cure whooping cough, eat frog soup. To treat eye problems a … Read entire article »
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Donkeys
It’s good luck to see a donkey. When a pregnant woman sees a donkey, her child will grow up well behaved and wise. It’s good luck to find a dead donkey. (?!) A donkey that won’t stop braying and twitching it’s ears is an omen that rain is on the way. Cures: A child sitting on the back of a donkey that circles nine times will be cured of whooping cough. Hairs from a donkey’s back cure fits, convulsions, toothache, and teething trouble in babies. The right hoof of a donkey protects against epilepsy. Passing a patient under a donkey’s belly and over its back cures whooping cough and ague. Feeding a donkey the hairs from a patient cures the patient of scarlet fever. … Read entire article »
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