Do you know any "old wives tales"?

The expression is so familiar but I can't think of any.

cramp up and drowned.

...."what did you eat? Potato salad...1/2 hour...ham sandwich...20 minutes"

Cheers,
Kim

god kills a kitten

I could say that 1/8 of my time on earth wasn't wasted.

but that's not an old wives tale - that's a fact, Jack.

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growing hair in funky places :P

Not sure if this is one in America but it is in Sweden...don't let a cat sleep with a baby; it will steal it's breath.

Cheers,
Kim

this one, however used to be true when houses weren't built like the are today. The registers were usually on outside walls where windows were...so the piano would get the heat from the register and the cold from the outside...but now it doesn't matter. You can put them virtually anywhere as long as you don't place it on a register.

about thirty years ago. She doesn't deny it.

the hair would grow back darker or thicker. Didn't happen but she still believes it.

If you carry the baby high, it's a girl. If you carry the baby low, it's a boy.

If you shave your legs, the hair will grow back thicker and darker.

If you go swimming less than an hour after you eat, you will get a cramp.

Feed a cold, starve a fever.

Coffee will stunt your growth.

If you sit too close to the television, you will ruin your eyes. If you read in low light, you will ruin your eyes.

If you cross your eyes your face will freeze that way.

If you have food aversions during pregnancy, the baby will dislike those foods also.

:hi:

;)

And don't you believe any of those tales, either! All of the ones I wrote are untrue.

When I was pregnant with my first, I was still at work just a few days before giving birth. I did not know the gender of the baby. A woman I had never seen or met before came up to me in the cafeteria and said, "Look how low you're carrying! That's a boy for sure!"

Nope. It was a girl. I didn't have a boy until 14½ years later - and I carried HIM high! :)

-- sister, told her that in the moment of intimacy, if the woman sits astride during coitus the resulting child will be female; if the male is atop, then the baby will be male.

My sister, age 11, says she listened politely while silently dismissing it as an old wives' tale.

A wild bird flying into one's house portends ill luck, possibly even death.

Chewing gum takes seven years to pass through the human digestive system.

A few drops of Lemon Joy in a saucer of water will knock mosquitoes dead from the sky.

Custom allows marriage-minded gals to propose to their boyfriends on February 29.

Friday the 13th is a day fraught with peril.*

Hair grows back darker or thicker after it has been shaved.

Those who go swimming less than one hour after eating will be taken by a cramp and drown.

Even in the most crowded of rooms, an inexplicable silence will invariably strike conversationalists at twenty past the hour.

Home remedies to repel mosquitoes are effective ways to defend yourself from West Nile Virus.

An effective cure for warts is to have someone "buy" them from you.

Many people find a lump because they inadvertently traumatize the area, but trauma itself does not cause cancer.

Many people find a lump because they inadvertently traumatize the area, but trauma itself does not cause cancer.

someone is talking about you.

If you're horny, you'll wake up with a jerk. No, I made the last one up!!! :loveya:

gave up his rib to have Eve made.

I actually knew a woman in college - at an engineering school! - who was absolutely sure that women had one more rib than men.

and whatever the hell else it is.

superstitions.

Actually, sounds more like a teenage boys tale :shrug:

my grandmother made my brother do that once... huge blisters resulted.

money.

eating too much salt will dry up your blood