14 Off-Beat Food Superstitions and Uses
What can you do with food except eat it? Ward off evil spirits, obviously.
- Bake a cake while the sun is rising, and do not throw away the eggshells until the baking is done.
- Tossing coffee grounds under steps leading to the kitchen table will rid the home of ants.
- It’s bad luck to gather blackberries after October 11.
- If you don’t spit out the seeds while eating a grape, the seeds will give you appendicitis.
- Onions mixed with ant eggs will cure deafness.
- Rum poured on the head cures baldness.
- Hammer a peg or nail into a fruit tree that bears no fruit, and soon you will have some.
- If you want your cabbage to flourish, plant them on St. Patrick’s day.
- Hold a buttercup under someone’s chin. If it casts a yellow shadow, that person loves to eat butter.
- The sound of thunder will turn milk sour.
- If you spot bubbles in a cup of coffee, try to spoon them up and eat them before they burst. If you succeed, you will receive money from an unexpected source.
- Eating peaches gives you wisdom.
- If you love someone and want them to love you, give them an orange.
- If you grow too much lettuce in your garden, your wife will never conceive children.
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Post Commenttriggerhappy
On August 28, 2007 at 10:53 am
When was this? in the midle ages?
Kitty
On September 6, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I’ve heard a few of these as modern day superstitions. Most notably the buttercup one was something we did in the school playground.