I seem to remember my grandmother saying something about a superstition about crickets coming into the house.
2006-07-21 16:22:15 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
A cricket in the house is good luck. I believe this superstition has a basis in Chinese folklore. However, Charles Dickens wrote the story, A Cricket on the Hearth.
Crickets can be d**n annoying when you are trying to sleep.
A cricket does not actually chirp, they rub their legs together to make the sound. The colder it is outside the slower they chirp.
2006-07-21 18:33:44 · answer #1 · answered by Schona 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Bad Luck for the poor cricket!
2006-07-21 16:27:20 · answer #2 · answered by Lotus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think them getting into the house is good or bad luck... it's killing them that is supposed to be bad luck.
It is considered good luck if wasps make a nest near your home.
I'm not sure how much I believe in luck at all.... but these are the things I've heard other people say.
2006-07-21 19:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by Dustin Lochart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an old Asian superstition that crickets are good luck, and some folks still keep them in small cages in their homes.
2006-07-21 16:26:45 · answer #4 · answered by Vatican Lokey 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Very good luck. A cricket on the hearth means a happy home.
2006-07-21 16:25:12 · answer #5 · answered by locolady98 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
good luck
its only bad luck to kill a cricket
2006-07-21 17:26:18 · answer #6 · answered by atreadia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure. But I can tell you it ain't either. As many crickets We had in our old house. I hadn't had more of either luck. So maybe it is both.
2006-07-21 16:26:25 · answer #7 · answered by nay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm from the south. I was always told it meant good luck, but I don't believe in luck.
2006-07-21 16:25:54 · answer #8 · answered by tina m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad Luck in only that they will drive you crazy at night when trying to sleep!
2006-07-21 16:25:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's good luck to have one in your house.
It is bad luck to kill them.
We do not kill crickets in my house.
My kids are grown and they won't even kill them.
Kind of a family tradition now.
2006-07-22 03:07:42 · answer #10 · answered by Moma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋