Thanks for the link. I guess many of these things have an European origin and from there they jumped the pond to the new world.
Another thing that I have heard in Mexico (not only in my family) is that owls announce the death of Indians (i.e. Mexican native Indians). The sayings goes like "when the owl sings the Indian dies." Some years ago, that saying took another dimension because in the Mexican Baseball League there was one team nicknamed Owls and another nicknamed, you guess, Indians
Unfortunately both teams are now defunct.
One more thing I remember from my granny, and I think it is also very common, is that a big forefront denotes a smart people. Another signal of a smart person is if there is a right angle between the forefront, the base of the nose, and the ears. If there is less than 90 degrees, then the person was "obtuse."
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Originally Posted by ardeegee
That one is pretty widely used:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...=goose+walking
Yep, my family, too-- if you drop a piece of food, someone has "begrudged" it.
Other family sayings:
If your right hand is itching, you are going to shake hands with a stranger. If your left hand is itching, you are going to come into money.
If your ears are ringing, someone is talking about you (that is another common one.)
A cure for asthma in a child is to stand him/her against a tree and drive in a nail above their head-- when they grow past the level of the nail, the asthma will be cured (my grandmother did that with me ( that one isn't original to my family either.) |