..A girl who whistles makes the Virgin Mary cry.
..If you make a face in the mirror when lightning strikes, your face will remain that way.
..If you dig a hole on Good Friday, you will find blood in it.
..If you drop a dish towel, you are sure to have company soon.
..Cajun children used to wait for the tooth mouse to take their teeth from under their pillows and leave money.
..To get rid of a wart,cut a potato in half, rub the wart with it, throw the potato over your shoulder, and be sure not to look where the potato fell. This should get rid of the wart(porro).
..If a pregnant woman is upset about seeing a person with some type of physical or mental handicap, her child will be born with the same handicap. The woman is said to be "frapeed" on that handicapped person.
..If you physically strike one of your parents, when you die and are buried, your hand will remain in a striking position.
..If you kill a spider after dark,you will have good luck.
..To ensure that a visitor will never come back to your home, throw salt as they leave in the form of a cross.
..To break up a tornado, make a cross with 2 knives nine times.
..Because it is wrong to throw food, one should bless bread that was dropped on the floor before eating it...Up until the 1960's, children used to celebrate New Year's Day by going door to door with a brown paper bag to collect candy, but mostly popcorn fixed in a variety of ways. They would greet the people by saying "Bonne Annee'"(Happy New Year)...Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated like everyone else--by wearing green--but if someone is not wearing green, they will be pinched by others...Gumbo is a traditional Christmas Dinner...Birthday spankings are given -one for each year...People who are in mourning do not watch TV for a year...A home remedy for sprains is to wrap the sprain in raw onions and leave it like that for a few days...If a hen, and I repeat, a HEN crows there will be a death in the family. Yes, I know it's the rooster that supposed to
crow, . Very, very odd:-) We have a
...If the wind changes direction while pouting, your face will stay stuck in that expression...If your left hand itches you'll come into some money, if your right hand itches you'll meet an old friend...If someone passes a mop over your foot, you'll never marry...If a branch falls in the woods, there'll be high water...If cows lie down in the field during the day, there's rain a comin'..If mosquito hawks (dragonflies) fly in the shape of a funnel, there's a hurricane a comin'...NEVER sweep dirt from your floor out the door after dark....bad luck, of course:-)..Cure for a black eye....bury, yes bury, a steak for several days and the black eye will disappear! ( A twist on the
"hold a steak on your black eye" method:-)Home remedy for earache-Roll up a newspaper inthe shape of a funnel and use it to blow smoke into the affected ear.
