[mobertol]

My Gran's was definitely a Rabbit's foot -it was white, with a semi-precious stone set in it and kept in a pink musical jewellery box with a little ballerina which came out when you opened it . Got thrown out when she died -much to my displeasure. It was something I remember loving as a little girl -not for the jewels, as the most expensive things were her crystal beads but it was something very particular that got lost in one of my mum's clear outs.

Another of my Gran's superstitions was that if you gave a new purse or wallet it had to contain silver - a sixpence in old money. I carried the sixpence she gave me for well over twenty years till it got lost -supposed to bring wealth... could do to find it