Mi old Granny used to come out with stuff that as a kid I took as gospel, they sounded quite reasonable at the time and were spoken with such authority that they were never questioned and you never forget them, for instance.
Jigsaws are always one piece short.
It stops hiccups if some one makes you jump.
Never sleep lying on your hart.
Smelling flowers you can sniff up bugs that will eat your nose away.
If you keep picking your nose your eyes fall out....And Many more..
Which one's did you believe?:nod:

if you drink milk then orange juice it curdles in your stomach.

beware of men with beards :S

if you drink milk then orange juice it curdles in your stomach.

beware of men with beards :S

Suppose she was right, the Yorkshire ripper had a beard:hihi:

so did my ex husband lmao

Never surpress a sneeze, it'll blow your eyeballs out.
Never swallow chewing gum, it'll wrap round your intestines.
Don't leave opened tins of food in the fridge.
Cutting a worm in half, one grows a new head, one grows a new tail and you get two worms.
Not to mention Santa, the Tooth Fairy, The bogey man, God.

Don't cross your eyes 'cos if the wind changes they'll stay like that.

You mont sit on cold doorsteps, you'll get kinkoff in yer potmold! (What the hell is that).

If you put a clean tablecloth on the table and there's a diamond in the crease then a family member will die.

It's bad luck to put shoes on the table.

If you take the last sandwich from the plate without being asked if you'd like it them you'll die an old maid (assuming that you're a female to start with!).

Never apply ointment/cream with your index finger as it's poisonous.

I think most of these are from my father whose mother (adopted) was born in 1865 so they really must have been old wives' tales!

Duffems

You mont sit on cold doorsteps, you'll get kinkoff in yer potmold! (What the hell is that).

Must be chilblains on yer bum. Sounds nasty.:(.

Don't eat apple or orange pips cos trees'll grow in yer stomach.

Don't eat apple or orange pips cos trees'll grow in yer stomach.
You mean that one isn't true??? My Mother's a lying ratbag!!

Always throw salt over your shoulder if you've spilt some or you'll have bad luck...
(Especially if your stood behind some one who's just spilt some salt)

The one I remember most vividly from my Nan (and there were a few I can tell you) was that eating raw potatoes (I used to nick em as she was cutting chips), would give me worms.
I'm sure it would be possible if I ate them unwashed but not sure when they were washed, I always wondered if she was right and I still get second thoughts when I eat raw washed chips now :)

The one I remember most vividly from my Nan (and there were a few I can tell you) was that eating raw potatoes (I used to nick em as she was cutting chips), would give me worms.
I'm sure it would be possible if I ate them unwashed but not sure when they were washed, I always wondered if she was right and I still get second thoughts when I eat raw washed chips now :)

We were told that "raw potatoes are poisonous".

Duffems

Duffems.... "You mont sit on cold doorsteps, you'll get kinkoff in yer potmold! (What the hell is that).

Hi....it's not "kinkoff" but "king cough"....(dont ask!!!) :)
My mum still says it now, even Ive started saying it to my kids!!!
Like if they go out when it's cold with no coat on..."You'll get king cough!!!"
If they go outside with wet hair......"You'll get king cough!!!"

lol.... whatever a "pot mould" is, I dont know, but Im pretty sure it's got something to do with your bum!!! (You'll get king cough in your bum!!) hahaha!!!

If we sat on a cold wall/steps, we were told we'd get piles! Nice!!!! ;)

The one I remember most vividly from my Nan (and there were a few I can tell you) was that eating raw potatoes (I used to nick em as she was cutting chips), would give me worms.
I'm sure it would be possible if I ate them unwashed but not sure when they were washed, I always wondered if she was right and I still get second thoughts when I eat raw washed chips now :)


Only if the soil in which the potatoes had been grown were contaminated with feces, human or animal. Cat and dog feces can spread a parasite known as a hookworm to humans that can infect the skin or even the eye. Human or pig feces, which used to be used as fertilizer, may contain eggs of roundworms that can develop in the human intestine. If all the soil is washed off the potatoes they're safe. There are no parasites inside the potato that are infective to humans. So your Nan was partly right.

I like that. 'Never suppress a sneeze it'll blow you eyeballs out'. Can't help but laugh when I try to picture that one.

Can rubbing raw meat on it, then burying the meat in the garden when there's a full moon, really get rid of warts ?

my mam used to open the windows and doors in a thunderstorm so the thunderbolts could get out of the house instead of going up the chimney and wrecking it

Can rubbing raw meat on it, then burying the meat in the garden when there's a full moon, really get rid of warts ?
No, it's got to be a dead cat according to Huckleberry Finn.

No, it's got to be a dead cat according to Huckleberry Finn.

Any particular colour ?

...........................................

Any particular colour ?
They're all the same colour on the inside.

They're all the same colour on the inside.
deedar.
Thought you were going to say in the dark......:hihi:

MY mums was if you pull a face wind will change and you will stay like that !

another one was, water that you've boiled eggs in will give you warts

My grandma used to say that if I ate burnt toast it would make my hair curl. For years I believed her and cheerfully ate the burnt edges of toast slices. Now I haven't enough hair left to make it worth bothering..:(

Can rubbing raw meat on it, then burying the meat in the garden when there's a full moon, really get rid of warts ?

Tried it on my brother who had warts on his fingers and they disappeared after we buried the raw meat!

Duffems

My grandma used to say that if I ate burnt toast it would make my hair curl. For years I believed her and cheerfully ate the burnt edges of toast slices. Now I haven't enough hair left to make it worth bothering..:(

That must have wide usage Hillsboro as my grandma used to say the same thing. And my experience has been the same as yours.:confused:

My grandma used to say that if I ate burnt toast it would make my hair curl. For years I believed her and cheerfully ate the burnt edges of toast slices. Now I haven't enough hair left to make it worth bothering..:(

That must have wide usage Hillsboro as my grandma used to say the same thing. And my experience has been the same as yours.:confused:

;) so what your grandma should have really told you is "eat your crusts/ eat your burnt toast so that your hair will fall out?" :hihi: :hihi:

;) so what your grandma should have really told you is "eat your crusts/ eat your burnt toast so that your hair will fall out?" :hihi: :hihi:

Just like her hubbie, the gaffer, my grandad who was bald as a boiled egg except for a few long strands that he combed right across his crown in a futile attempt to disguise the obvious. Maybe he should have eaten burnt toast instead of those horrible pigs trotters he kept tucking into. :gag:

My Nan used to say, that if you wore clothes that were not properly aired " you will get Scarlet Fever" &

"a whistling woman and a cackling hen will drive the devil from his den" if ever we were caught whistling

Remember being told if I whistled too loud I'd blow my front teeth out....

Took the advice, but as with the burnt toasters still lost me front teeth.....:heyhey:
And wasn't there some thing about closing the bedroom window at night because the night air was bad for you ?

My Nan used to say, that if you wore clothes that were not properly aired " you will get Scarlet Fever" &

"a whistling woman and a cackling hen will drive the devil from his den" if ever we were caught whistling

*my bold*

OMG yeah my Nan used to that too, I haven't heard it said for years :)

Just reminded me of another, apparently it was bad luck if you whistled while on the stairs!

Talking of stairs, does anyone remember being told not to pass anyone on the stairs as it's bad luck?

Talking of stairs, does anyone remember being told not to pass anyone on the stairs as it's bad luck?

Sure do, and the one where if you'd gone out and then you went back into the house because you'd forgotten some thing, you had to count to ten..

Still do it

My grandma used to say that if I ate burnt toast it would make my hair curl. For years I believed her and cheerfully ate the burnt edges of toast slices. Now I haven't enough hair left to make it worth bothering..:(
SNAP !

Also:
2. If you cross your eyes and it starts thundering you will stay like it
3. If you accidentally splash the water that you have boiled your eggs in, onto your skin it will cause warts.

(I still believe #3 for some reason).

SNAP !

Also:
2. If you cross your eyes and it starts thundering you will stay like it
3. If you accidentally splash the water that you have boiled your eggs in, onto your skin it will cause warts.

(I still believe #3 for some reason).

. . . and to get rid of warts tie a Horse Hair round them and pull tight - for Christ's sake don't try it, just see the quack.

We could make this into a pamphlet you know, perhaps calling it '' Tips for a crap life'' - any takers ?

We could make this into a pamphlet you know, perhaps calling it '' Tips for a crap life'' - any takers ?

Thing is, if we'd have all followed them to the letter we'd never have got through life which proves that, just like our own kids/grandkids, we didn't take a blind bit 'o notice (isn't that another one, a blind bit o'notice?).

Duffems

Sure do, and the one where if you'd gone out and then you went back into the house because you'd forgotten some thing, you had to count to ten..

Still do it

:hihi::hihi: I STILL do that, pmsl even when I am running late for work...lmao If I have forgot something..I go back in house, and I am not even halfway to front door on way back out and I can "see" my Dad standing there saying...now sit down an count to 10...or you'll have bad luck for rest of day :hihi:

Daft aint we :loopy::suspect::rolleyes:

Talking of stairs, does anyone remember being told not to pass anyone on the stairs as it's bad luck?

Isn't this one something to do with coffins?
I seem to remember something along those lines....

Don't know about that RiffRaff, I certainly wouldn't pass a coffin on the stairs!

Another one: if you put an article of clothing on "back to front" in the morning wasn't it considered bad luck to turn it round the right way, in other words, you wore it back to front all day feeling an absolute numpty.

Don't know about that RiffRaff, I certainly wouldn't pass a coffin on the stairs!

Another one: if you put an article of clothing on "back to front" in the morning wasn't it considered bad luck to turn it round the right way, in other words, you wore it back to front all day feeling an absolute numpty.

My kids think i am mad since i told them this- :D

Wasn't there some thing about having birds or Elephants in the house being Bad luck...

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Wasn't there some thing about having birds or Elephants in the house being Bad luck...

lI should imagine that having elephants in the house IS very bad luck!

I should imagine that having elephants in the house IS very bad luck!

:heyhey:
Should have expected that one, No, ornaments.
Once brought mum a pot Elephant back from Blackpool, she wasn't best pleased, apparently they have to be faceing the right way ?

King cough = Whooping cough

Wasn't there some thing about having birds or Elephants in the house being Bad luck...

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If I remember rightly it's peacock feathers in the house that bring bad luck.

Don't know about that RiffRaff, I certainly wouldn't pass a coffin on the stairs!

Another one: if you put an article of clothing on "back to front" in the morning wasn't it considered bad luck to turn it round the right way, in other words, you wore it back to front all day feeling an absolute numpty.

Back to front or inside out it was the same you had to wear them as you had put them on as it was bad luck to change them round.

Back to front or inside out it was the same you had to wear them as you had put them on as it was bad luck to change them round.

By, but we did look a rum lot going to school of a morning.....:hihi:

What about crossed knives on the table being the sign of an argument,
and hanging a cut Onion up near the door to attract any germs that came in..

By, but we did look a rum lot going to school of a morning.....:hihi:

What about crossed knives on the table being the sign of an argument,
and hanging a cut Onion up near the door to attract any germs that came in..

I still go round uncrossing knives.

Crossed knives meant a pending argument (happened all the time in our house!).
A diamond shaped crease in a table cloth meant a death in the family.

Do you know, with all these falsifications it's a wonder we had the courage to get out of bed in a morning!

Duffems

Duffems.
Back in the days of the old open coal fire, if a piece of coal shot out of the fire and it was diamond shape, that was also seen as a sign of a death ......
The two may be connected, but why the diamond shape I haven't got the foggiest... with the Ace of spades I can see it, a black spade, but the diamond is a red card........Weired

That's true grinder, I'd forgotten about diamond shaped pieces of "nutty slack" shooting around the room. Didn't we also look at shapes in the "clinkers" when they were glowing once the fire had got going?
I seem to recall that there were myths about seeing faces in the glowing coals.
Duffems

Your right Duffems, spent hours looking for pictures in the glowing fire,suppose it was early TV.:hihi:
Which remindes me, wasn't there one about if you looked at yourself for too long in the mirror you saw the devil....:help:

Your right Duffems, spent hours looking for pictures in the glowing fire,suppose it was early TV.:hihi:
Which remindes me, wasn't there one about if you looked at yourself for too long in the mirror you saw the devil....:help:

.........looking over your shoulder!

Another one about mirrors was turning them round to face the wall when there was a thunderstorm in case lightening struck them, what was that all about?
Of course someone's already mentioned opening the front and back doors of the house when there was a thunderstorm so that any lightening bolt could travel through the house.

Duffems

Wasn't there some thing about having birds or Elephants in the house being Bad luck...

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It is bad luck if the elephants trunk on the orniment-(spelling?) is pointing
downwards- all my mum in laws ones have raised ones-

Think the bird one is it bad luck if you find a dead blackbird in your house

.........looking over your shoulder!

Another one about mirrors was turning them round to face the wall when there was a thunderstorm in case lightening struck them, what was that all about?
Of course someone's already mentioned opening the front and back doors of the house when there was a thunderstorm so that any lightening bolt could travel through the house.

Duffems

I used to swing on the front door pushing it to and fro. My mum used to tell me to stop it or I'd let the devil in.

My wife's just told me, the reason the diamond shape is the sign of a death is because it's coffin shaped......
Funny how all these pre date television, I suppose in those days folk had more time on their hands..

Another was, the first finger of your right hand is your poison finger......:confused:

My wife's just told me, the reason the diamond shape is the sign of a death is because it's coffin shaped......
Funny how all these pre date television, I suppose in those days folk had more time on their hands..

Another was, the first finger of your right hand is your poison finger......:confused:

Confused, so was I as a child, my father used to tell us not to apply ointments/creams etc. with the first finger on your right hand as it was poisonous.
He also said never to write in green ink as it was illegal.
Now, I know my father's "adopted" mother was 58 when she "adopted" him, she was born in 1865, strange having a grandmother born so long ago so these myths are obviously from a very different era, she was the one who told him all these weird & wonderful falsifications.

Duffems

Wasn't there some thing about having birds or Elephants in the house being Bad luck...l

Some Welsh people still believe that having a bird in the house is unlucky - some even extend it to frozen chickens.

Some Welsh people still believe that having a bird in the house is unlucky - some even extend it to frozen chickens.

But sheep in the house is OK ...... sorry couldn't pass up a bit of Welsh bashing!

I wonder if this finger bit has anything to do with the old rhyme, " And the little Piggy's run with their finger up their bum to see what was the matter....:huh:
or is that just a partial childhood memory of some rude song I used to sing...:blush:

I wonder if this finger bit has anything to do with the old rhyme, " And the little Piggy's run with their finger up their bum to see what was the matter....:huh:
or is that just a partial childhood memory of some rude song I used to sing...:blush:

hehe lol

I well remember the rhyme you are half-remembering:- it was mentioned earlier.

"Once upon a time,
The birds s- *cough* -t the line,
and the monkeys chewed tobacco,
The little piggies run
With their fingers up their b*m,
and said "What was the matter?"

Some Welsh people still believe that having a bird in the house is unlucky - some even extend it to frozen chickens.

is that why they love sheep?

How come we always remember the rude ones...?:hihi:

Apparently an itchy left palm means your going to give..An itchy right palm means to recieve..mmmmm..very odd..

Apparently an itchy left palm means your going to give..An itchy right palm means to recieve..mmmmm..very odd..

An Itchy foot means your going to tread on strange ground and an Itchy nose mean your going to lose your temper .mmmmm..Curiouser and curiouser