A dog eating grass
- rain
Meeting a dog - good
luck (especially Dalmatians)
A greyhound with a
white spot on its forehead - good fortune
Lettuce is believed
to have magical and healing properties, including the power to arouse love
and counteract the effects of wine.
If you catch a falling
leaf on the first day of autumn you will not catch a cold all winter.
A cricket in the house
brings good luck.
Pick a dandelion that
has gone to seed. Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count
the seeds that remain on the stem. That is the number of children you will
have.
It's bad luck to leave
a house through a different door than the one used to come into it.
Being followed by a
strange dog - bad luck (especially black dogs)
The spectral black
dog (barguest) - a harbinger of death
A dog howling for no
reason - unseen spirits
A dog howling three
times - A death has occurred
Horse brasses were
used to protect horses from witches
White horses - ill
fortune
Inhaling a horses breath
- cure for whooping cough
You'll 'cut off' fortune
if you use scissors on new years day
Coral beads are said
to change color indicating whether the wearer is ill or well.
Nails should be bitten,
not cut, for the same time, for that would make them thieves.
If you go to the bathroom
in the night with no clothes on, insects will fall on you
An apple a day, keeps
the doctor away.
If you want to see
a friend again, then don't ever say goodbye to them on a bridge.
Never take a broom
with you when moving house - buy a new one.
If you see a chimney
sweep then shake his hand so that some of his good luck rubs off onto you.
Seeing a single crow
is very unlucky. But 2 mean good luck! 3 means health, 4 means wealth, 5
is sickness & 6 mean death!
If your ear is burning,
then someone is talking about you. To determine whether what they are saying
is good or bad, remember this rhyme, - Left for love, Right for spite!
If the palm of your
right hand is itchy, then it foretells that money is coming to you, but
don’t scratch it as that stops the money from coming! If it’s
your left palm that is itchy, then scratch away, as that means that you'll
soon be paying out money
If you see a magpie,
remember this rhyme - One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four
for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret, Never to be
told.
How you start the year
is how you will end it, so you must ensure that you are wearing new clothes
& looking your best, have paid off all your debts & are with your
partner (to ensure that you are still with them at the next New year). Also
you must open
Dropping a pair of
scissors is said to warn that a lover is unfaithful.
Never place shoes on
a table as it means bad luck for the remainder of the day.
A bride must sew a
swan’s feather into her husband’s pillow to ensure fidelity.
You must knock on wood
3 times after mentioning good fortune or the evil spirits will ruin things
for you.
See a penny, pick it
up; all day long you’ll have good luck.
Don’t break a
mirror, or you’ll have seven years bad luck.
Don’t wash clothes
on New Year’s Day, or somebody in your family will pass away.
Don’t walk under
a ladder, or somebody will have an accident;
Don’t hit anyone
with a broom, or it will make him or her lazy.
Eating a hair from
a horse's forelock - cure for worms
Horses standing with
their backs to a hedge - rain
A watermelon will grow
in your stomach if you swallow a watermelon seed.
A bride's veil protects
her from evil spirits who are jealous of happy people.
If a woman sees a robin
flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it means she will marry a sailor. If
she sees a sparrow, she will marry a poor man and be very happy. If she
sees a goldfinch, she will marry a millionaire.
Dropping an umbrella
on the floor means that there will be a murder in the house.
If you bite your tongue
while eating, it is because you have recently told a lie.
All wishes on shooting
stars come true.
A spider is a repellent
against plague when worn around the neck in a walnut shell.
You sleep best with
your head to the north and your feet to the south.
If you sing before
seven, you will cry before eleven.
Salty soup is a sign
that the cook is in love.
Rosemary planted by
the doorstep will keep witches away.
If you leave a rocking
chair rocking when empty, it invites evil spirits to come into your house
to sit in the rocking chair.
A wish made upon seeing
the first robin in spring will come true - but only if you complete the
wish before the robin flies away.
A red ribbon should
be placed on a child who has been sick to keep the illness from returning.
A rainbow in the Eastern
sky, The morrow will be fine and dry. A rainbow in the West that gleams,
Rain tomorrow falls in streams.
If you use the same
pencil to take a test that you used for studying for the test, the pencil
will remember the answers.
It is bad luck to see
an owl in the sunlight.
Changing a horse's
name - very bad luck
An albatross flying
around a ship in mid ocean - bad weather
To see an adder - general
bad luck
To kill an adder -
general good luck
A live adder on the
doorstep - a death in the household
A bat In a church during
a wedding ceremony - bad omen
Drinking milk from
a bowl from which a ferret has drunk - cure for whooping cough
