2007-03-01 20:34:39 · 3 answers · asked by Alias400 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
A long time ago it was a sign of safety. If any enemy or animal was around to hurt you at night the crickets would stop chirping. As long as you heard crickets you were ok-ie lucky! It just grew outta that.
2007-03-03 19:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by D4gotten1 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll let someone else do the chirping, I mean talking, for me...
Cricket lore
Keeping crickets as pets. ... If you live elsewhere in the world, your local garden variety cricket should do the trick. ... More lore. Crickets tend to chirp ...
bizarrelabs.com/cricket.htm
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2007-03-02 08:58:43 · answer #2 · answered by busted.mike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but I can't give you a definite answer as to why, but interestingly that is the case in Germany as well as in China and France.
In Germany it is definitely connected to the belief in good spirits that watch over the house and its song is supposed to keep evil influences away, but when I was a child my German granny could not tell me anything more when I asked than that they just were lucky to have around the house.
2007-03-02 06:34:24 · answer #3 · answered by haggesitze 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋