Old wives tales in your country

I remember this.Don't eat uncooked rice for it will rain heavily on your wedding day.

Hi mayka,yes when I was a kid my father's sister used to tell me lots of stories and I can still sometimes here her voice ringing in my ears..... That I should not leave my hair lose after washing it,but should tie it up losely, during solar and lunar eclipse,we should not eat food,as it will interfere with our digestion, that we should not drink water before and in between meals etc...... But otdays generation has no interest to hear such tales they prefer to watch tV or play computer games........

Those are facts of life, actually old wife tales will have some meaning in it/them.

i think from our ancestors based on their experiences and these tales are passed down from generation to generation.. but there's no scientific explanation 1. don't go to sleep when your hair is wet, you might go blind 2. don't cut your nails after 6pm 3. If you sing while cooking, you will marry someone who is really really old 4. Don't sweep the floor during the night because your sweeping the blessings out of the house lol, these are just some..:)

I got my fair share of wive's tales when I was pregnant. One incident that I can recall was a woman who would not touch my pregnant belly for fear that she would become pregnant. It takes a little more than that... The wive's tales that you've mentioned are silly, but there is some truth behind number 4. My husband has fake knee caps because he shattered them both when he was 7. His knees are kind of arthritic because of the pins in them. They bother him when it's going to rain and this isn't really that far-fetched. It has to do with the pressure change when bad weather is coming. This won't be 100 percent accurate, but people with arthritis might feel a storm coming a lot of the time.

oh yes, we have alot.i'm always quoteing one to my sons who are grown& they still don't understand them. lol. we weren't allowed to drink milk when we were eating fish, suppose to make u sick. never did understand that one because they served milk at schol w/fish. my son woke uo ill as a hornet one day when he was little. i said what's wrong w/u, did u get up on the wrong side of the bed. he looked at me realmean & holleres i got up on the same side i always do. use to when we'd say our nose was , they'd say somebody is coming w/a hole in their britches, i use to tell my son that & it would make in so mad & he'd say well it's not grandaddy. never did know why he associated that w/dad.

i think they maybe telling from their experiences.somehow i respect their sayings though i donot completely beleive them.some ridicuolos ones i have heard are girls are not supposed to laugh loudly,girls are not sit cross-legged.................

Ia m from your country. so there are some old stories that are similar. also there are some that are just different types of stories. in my mother tongue there are fairy tales.

Well number 1 and number 4 are facts. Even a doctor will tell you not to swim after eating. It may not cause you to drown but it will cause cramps. I can tell you when the weather is changing before it happens. Either rain or cold coming has an effect on my Arthritis. Number 2 may not be so far fetched because the more strain you put on your eyes the more likely you are to damage them. So the only thing I can see that may not be true is wet hair. But then who in their right mind would go out in freezing weather with wet hair?? Most of us have repeated these old wives tales at some time or other. It's just the way we brought up to respect and believe our elders are smarter and should be listened to. Since everyone else has posted the ones I have heard I wont bother to repeat them.

Hi dear sure, we used to listen these kind of stories 1") dont go out after sunset 2) Dont talk much when out in journey, u might lost 3) if its crow on ur wall, uit means guests are expecting etc etc and it was fun Well, i dont but my mother do tell stories to my son, its way to educate them Take care

Hi dear, I also heard lot of such tales but can't recollect the whole. But the interesting thing is that these tales are spreading in a devotional way so that people may feel some fear and try to obey the same. If you go through the tales and think about the same in an intellectual way you can also understand how the tale meant it. For example, pregnant women are not allowed to step out from the house after sunset, (there is slight darkness outside) if so it will affect their baby badly. But the fact behind is that the creatures, (in village there are many) like snakes and other reptiles are start searching their food at this time and if the pregnant women happened to see the same she may afraid and that way it affects the baby badly. Another one, it is not good to comb your hair at night (when we heard about the same in our regional language we felt that GOD does not like the same). There are plenty of such tales but I can't remember it right now.

I can only remember one. My grandmother used to say if you step over someone instead of around them, you will stunt their growth. At one point I was laying on the living room floor, watching tv. One of my uncles stepped over me to get by. She made him step back over, and then walk around me.

Hi Mayka, the one that I remembered the old ladies telling us when we were kids was that we were not to laugh or scream when a strong wind blew, or else our mouths would be crooked or twisted. This was one thing we kids loved to challenge; so can you imagine how we screamed or laughed our heads off each time there was a strong wind!

I do remember these tales that were told by my grandmother and were passed on to us by my mom and some my girls and their cousins still remember. Like we should not wash our hair when we have our period for we might become lunatic. If the cat sleeps at the doorway, there will be guests coming. The presence of many dragonflies flying in circles and stays very low means there will be a flood or it will rain for 9 consecutive days. In a wake, citrus fruits or food is not allowed for it will bring bad luck to the bereaved family and many more....

We have the same old wives tales in Australia too mayka. Other ones I remember was being told that if I sit on cold concrete then I will get piles; and my Mother used to always tell me that if I made faces at my Sister and the wind changed, then I would be stuck with that face permanently!

Yes! I always hear those from my grandma before or even to my aunts. It sounds funny though but it runs in the family. But I dont practice those and so my family.