"Daddy longlegs are incredibly poisonous- the only reason why we shouldn't fear them is that their legs are too long and keep their poisonous fangs from biting you. Never mind that's its usually some trailer park nobody that's telling you this tale in between chugs of old beer." uh, you do realise that that is actually true...
The way I'd heard it is that what we in the states know as "daddy longlegs" is actually a harmless mite, AKA "Harvestman." However, in australia, motto: "Everything here can kill you," there is a daddy longlegs spider which would be incredibly deadly if only it had fangs big enought to actually deliver its potent venom. Then, I saw this: http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
Swinging your legs from a high seat causes bad luck. Mentioning that something unsavoury might happen to an individual or his family, at some point, just as a 'for instance', is really bad and the only way to negate your 'prediction' is to bite your tongue and sit up and down in your chair, 3 times Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Shaking your bunch of keys is bad luck. When you enter your friend's new house for the first time, you must do it with your right foot, otherwise... you guessed it, bad luck for your friend.
If your right hand itches, you're going to spend money, if it's your left, you're going to receive. If you sneeze, someone is talking about you. If your eye twitches you're going to hear bad news.
jesus, people must talk about me a lot. and to think they told me it was allergies! the lying bastards... woe is me... *sobs and otherwise bemoans petty existence*
My mother, who I suppose qualifies as an "old wife" when she told me these things, had some humdingers. I got a pair of shoes in junior high my mother simply hated. To get me to hardly ever wear them, she told me if I wore them too often my arches would fall. When I was 18, I called her to tell her about these really cool sandals I'd bought. "I can't wear them very often, though, because my arches will fall." She cracked up and said "Who the hell told you that?" She also used to say you got those white marks on your fingernails every time you told a lie. When I was hungry, she would pinch the skin on the inside of my pinky and say "You've still got some fat left. You don't need to eat."
"She also used to say you got those white marks on your fingernails every time you told a lie." me mum said it's because of a mineral difficiency from not eating meat the doctor said it's from impact
"Pork rind makes your genitals cheesy" too much info "me mum said it's because of a mineral difficiency from not eating meat" it'd more likely be from lack of milk/calcium "If you masturbate, you will go blind." ecxplsins a;; my typkes then Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
