| Things you need to take into a new home: bread (so you'll always have food), a broom (so you'll always live in a clean place) and salt (so you'll always have money) |
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| If you visit someone and go in the front door, you have to leave out of the front door, or you will take their luck. If they have a baby, and you leave from a different door, you'll take the baby's rest. In other words, come and go by the same door |
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| If you are going away and you forget something and go back and get it, SIT DOWN or you'll have bad luck (this is a must) |
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| Pass babies around the kitchen table leg so they won't get liver grown |
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| Never put shoes on a table or a bed, misfortune will follow |
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| Burn a bayberry candle on Christmas Day and New Years Day and it must burn out on its own for good fortune and luck |
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| If every morsel of food is eaten at a meal, you'll have clear weather |
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| If a young child keeps wetting in bed - you take them out and have them "tinkle" on a fresh grave |
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| Rub a child's neck on the pig trough so they don't get mumps |
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| If two people are walking and something comes between them (such as a lamp post), say "bread and butter" |
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| You never sew on Ascension Day or lightning will strike you |
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| It is a sin to stretch at the table (when eating) (also bad manners) |
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| Fastnacht Day is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday- last one out of bed is the Fastnacht (Fat Cake) |
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| During the first week of Lent, the last one out of bed on Thursday is the 'Dishrag sucker'; Friday's last one up is the 'slop bucket rider' |
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| During the Dog Days of August - you don't swim as much, you might get boils |
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| If you eat something for the first time - make a wish |
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| If you put something on wrong side out - unintentionally, like ladies with their petticoats, you'll get a present |
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| If you spill salt at the table, throw some of the spilled salt over your left shoulder so you don't get bad luck
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| If you sing before 7 (am), you'll cry before 11 (am)!
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| (for ladies) If your hem is turned up without you knowing it, that means a widower is after you
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| If your nose itches, that means "a kiss or a letter or something better"
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| You always want your dessert pie served with the point of the wedge pointed toward you so you will receive a letter
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| If cows are lying down in a meadow, it's likely to rain
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| Always stand if you are at the table when it's 12 or 6 and bells ring - that means angels are crying
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| Never wipe a child's face with a dishrag - it will make hair grow
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