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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Here's a southern US superstition for you.
Gardeners in the south like to give away plants that are extras. Bulbs, runners, any sort of plant that asexually multiplies without human intervention. The are called pass-along plants (I passed-along 20 crinium lilies this spring). The superstition is that you should not thank the person who passes along the plant. If you do, the plant will die....
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very practical. Lovely too, it increases complicity.
In Italy a man
enters through a door in some public place before the women. I think it is for an ancient form of protection. With normal doors women have right of way they deserve, of course.