Historical Wyoming County April 1959 - Old Fulton History

Page 76 April. 1959
SUPERSTITIONS AND SAYINGS
Collected by the late
Ethel A. M. Tozier, Orangeville*
Nature Lore ^
Red at night, sailor's delight
Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
If a bird flies in the window,, someone will die.
Garry an umbrella and it won't rain. .(Charm based on the
cussedness of nature.)
Carry a potato In your pocket and you won't have rheumatism.
He looks like the last run of shad.
Happy as a skunk in Heaven.
Fussing around like a hen with one chicken.
Slick as an eel.
To cure asthma - Put lock of hair in a hole in a tree. Plug up
the hole. When child grows taller than the hole in the tree,
the asthma is gone.
Human Nature
Mad as an old hen under an eave trough in a cloudburst.
He looks like the breaking up of a hard winter.(Said of a
person who has been ill.)
Say "bread and butter" to prevent a quarrel if two people go
around an object.
Wish on a load of hay drawn by white horses., wish will come true.
Kiss a fool, you'll get a letter.
If your nose itches, you'll be in a fight.
What's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.
Rub Sty with a gold ring and. i.t_will go away at once.
It's a dark day when a blind sow can't find a PEW acorns.
Curiosity killed a cat; satisfaction brought him back.
Hungry enough to eat a raw dog.
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