Old wives' tales.
 

There are lots, and lots.

Are any based on fact?

Which ones do you know?

I'll start off.

Picking dandelions, and getting the white sap on your skin, will result in bed wetting.

Eating bread crusts makes your hair curl.

If you hold a buttercup under your chin, and there's a yellow reflection, it means you like butter.

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Eating carrots makes you see in the dark

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Two things you'll never see , a dead donkey or a poor farmer

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Hard work never killed anyone,it just makes some queer shapes.

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Rubbing a dock leaf on a nettle sting, eases the pain.

Eating fish makes you brainy.

Never swim until an hour has passed since you last ate.

Starve a cold, feed a fever.

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Touching toads gives you warts.

Don't put cut flowers in a sick person's bedroom.

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Get rid of styes by rubbing them with a gold ring.

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If you go outside with wet hair you'll catch a cold.

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If your right ear itches, someone's talking nicely about you.
If it's your left...they aren't.

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Don't tickle a baby's feet, or they'll stutter.

A picture falling off the wall means a death is imminent.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Self-abuse will stunt your growth. (Hazel Blears.)

Predict the sex of a baby by holding a wedding ring on string over the bump. Oval or circular movements mean a girl, straight line swinging predicts the baby will be a boy.

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Dont walk under a ladder. will bring bad luck.

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You can't get pregnant whilst still breast feeding, or whilst on your period.

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Surely the old wives tale is 'Feed a cold and starve a fever' or at least that is what my old gran used to tell me.....and she was definitely an old wife(well widow actually)

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The Claim: Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever - New York Times

Seems it's from Chaucer.

"Fede a cold and starb ob feber" translated as "feed a cold and DIE of fever."

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Good news -- starving is never the correct answer.

Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever? Learn the Facts

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