What was the strangest wives tale you've ever heard?

Answer 1

Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten. (Heard it in Catholic school)

Answer 2

Well I have heard alot of them.. but perhaps one of the most idiotic that I have seen so far was actually encountered on Yahoo Answers... If you hang a bag of water over your door, it will scare away flies so they dont come into your house. Or putting a bottle of water in your garden will scare flies away.. The logic behind this wives tale was explained as follows... the fly will see its enlarged and distorted reflection and be scared away. Too bad a fly cant even see like we do as they have compound eyes... it is completely illogical to assume they could even recognize their own reflection let alone experience the emotion "fear".

Another one of the most common and again one of the most illogical is the belief that going outside on a cold day, or in the rain will make you catch a cold or get sick.... people still believe this today even though we now know that illness is passed on through virus and germs etc.. The only thing that you could get from going outside in the rain or cold is hypothermia.. you cant "catch" any kind of sickness from weather....

Answer 3

This one is really prevalent...the only which announces that you're literally not meant to throw rice on the great of weddings because it makes birds explode even as they devour it. I even do not understand the position it were given began, yet I printed a question about it, and many, many human beings had heard of it, and some nonetheless believed it.

Answer 4

The one about the wives who grow their hair long, or keep it in some horrendous (huge emphasis on that word) style because their husband's like it.

I say, "hon, you want me to have long hair? Ok, you deal with it. You keep it trimmed. You wash, dry and style it every day for me. Then perhaps I'll grow it out for you."

Ohhhh.....not that kind of wive's tale, eh? I know, I just couldn't resist.

Answer 5

Hey, my grandmother was a walking encyclopedia of them!

Let's see--masturbation will make you insane; sitting on cold cement will give you hemorrhoids; orgasm is necessary in order for a woman to conceive (according to her, it shook the egg out of the ovary); if you handle cut flowers during 'that time of the month,' they'll die; swimming on a hot day will give you polio, and, of course, you never, NEVER, clean out your hairbrush or trim your hair outside, lest the birds use it for their nests and give you a headache.

Okay, the last one wasn't one of hers (I only heard of it after I moved to another state), but all the others were!

Answer 6

That if you raise your hands over your head when you are pregnant that the cord will wrap around the babies neck. There may be some truth to that however. I laughed when my grandmother scolded me for reaching into a high cabinet and my son was born with his cord wrapped around his neck twice.

Answer 7

If you make a face and a north wind blows it is going to freeze your face like that.
If you lie all your teeth will rot out.
And my absolute NOT favorite, boil pecan shells to make a tea and drink that to get rid of a cold. Dosen't work!!

Answer 8

that you will get poisoned by eating fish and drinking milk together.. or that a half cooked potato will kill you.

hmmm that putting a baby under a ceiling fan will cause cholic...

Answer 9

If you sit on a cold cement surface you will get diarrhea. That is pretty strange.

Answer 10

Whatever it is you are doing on new years day you will be doing for the rest of the year.

Answer 11

Something about a guy walking on water and then parting a sea so that a bunch of people could walk across its floor. There was another one about not swimming after having eaten a meal because it can kill you or something too.