Weird Myths

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That when the sun is shining and it's raining the devil is whipping his wife.
If you wear your shirt inside out the devil can't find you.
If a spider drops down in front of you company is comming.
That if your nose itches someone will show up holding their britches

avoid walking under ladders to ward off bad luck.

Never leave by the same door you came in.
Cats have nine lives.
Salamanders can withstand heat and put out fire.
Whippoorwills will suck a cow dry.
That if you kill a snake and hang it up it will rain.
If a screech owl hollers outside your window someone will die.

lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Wearing any type of hat will cause trouble for you.

All the mirrors must be covered in a room when a person dies in it,or the person that sees their reflection with the dead person will die next.
If you hear a death watch beetle clicking in the house,you have to kill it before it's stops clicking or someone in the house will die.
If it thunders it will kill chicks in the eggs.
If a news bee hovers in front of your face it's bringing you good news.
It's bad luck when birds try and get into the house.
Snakes can't bite underwater,
If a snapping turtle bites you,it won't turn lose till it thunders.
Hummingbirds ride on the backs of geese when they migrate.
A dog has to have black on the roof of its mouth to be a good dog.

Chili has no beans in Texas.

In reality, whether or not chili has beans is entirely up to the cook. If you don't like it the way the cook made it, then go make your own instead of whining about it.

I've always heard that superstition as "leave by the same door you came in". One of the local women when I was a kid really believed in that superstition, but applied to the outside doors, not the inside doors. If you were at your house and you came in the front door she would watch you to make sure you went out the front door. If you came in the back door, she would only let you leave by the back door.

At least there is some sense to that one - I don't walk under ladders as there is less chance of being hit by a falling bucket, tool, brick or whatever the person up there is working on.

You are correct,I got that one wrong.

Does this only work with a bent copper? A crisp twenty is better.


The darkest hour is just before dawn.

That conversations always end at twenty minutes (or some amount like that) before the hour, because that's when JFK was shot.

A duck's quack doesn't echo.

Dinosaurs may have caused their own extinction thanks to their breaking of wind!

That Henry Ford raised his workers wage to $5 a day so they could afford to buy one of his cars.

In reality he raised the wage because he was tired of losing workers, and the added cost of training new ones.