I have heard a few old wives tales and I can understand some of them.
Don´t put new shoes on the table. I can understand this as the old kind of shoes had studs in the bottoms so that they wear out before the leather.
Dont cut your toenails on a nightime. This is because it is darker on a night and you might cut yourself.
Dont put an umbrella up in the house. I think this could be to do with in the old day´s when there were oil lamps and you could knock them and spill the oil out.
Does anyone else know of old wives tales and where they came from.
2006-09-29
02:13:20
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Northernbloke
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