Question of the Day - Tuesday, June 24th, 2025

[fowltemptress]

I just remembered a couple that seemed to be unique to my family:

If you talk bad about your parents your tongue will turn black and rot off.

If you sing at the table you'll marry a crazy man.

I was smacked for singing at the table a couple times back when I was growing up. I'll have to let my husband know what it was that sealed his fate!

 

[jbj25]

That if your nose is itching then you have visitors coming to see you, or company coming as it was said. That is probably not the craziest I have ever heard but what I could think of right now.

If you eat a watermelon seed, a watermelon will grow in your belly.

I can remember a piece on the world news just a few years ago about a guy that was having problems and it turned out he had a bean that had sprouted in his lungs. They figured it must have went down the wrong way. It made you wonder what he was doing eating raw beans since a cooked one should not of sprouted.

Drum roll

chewing gum will take 7 years to digest

I had a friend when I was growing up whose mother told the story of him getting into a lot of bubble gum when he was a toddler, swallowing all of it, and she spent hours picking it out of his vent hole.

 

[tripletfeb]

I can't think of one off the top of my head. The swallowing gum and it being in your stomach for 7 years, is a famous one

 

[BoundlessLove]

This was back in the day:
If your children are exposed to chicken pox, make them sit one at a time in front of your open front door and then from the inside of the house throw a chicken over their head and let it fly over them and out the door and then the children will not get chicken pox.

 

[Sally PB]

The swallowing gum and it being in your stomach for 7 years, is a famous one

I also heard the variation that "it will make your insides stick together."

 

[The Moonshiner]

This was back in the day:
If your children are exposed to chicken pox, make them sit one at a time in front of your open front door and then from the inside of the house throw a chicken over their head and let it fly over them and out the door and then the children will not get chicken pox.

 

[BoundlessLove]

I live in the Cumberland mountains, which is part of the Appalachian mountains, so this was definitely old mountain folklore.
But I did hear it from the elders.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Another one:
You never wash clothes on New Year’s Day, because you will be washing for one less the next year.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Another one:
If the signs are in the head, do not have any dental work done.

(Signs being read from the moon phases which is noted in the Old Farmer’s Almanac)

 

[Evadig]

That toads give you warts.

Don't swallow your gum or it will sit in your gut for 7 years"

That you will sink if you go swimming right after eating something.

I've heard all these. Though with the swimming one it was that you'll get cramps. I never did.