Family Superstitions

[blue_by_you]

My mom (and my grandma) had a lot of superstitious sayings and I've used them and passed them down to my daughter. There's one that I'd never heard anyone else say until last night. The superstition is if you drop a piece of silverware it means someone will be coming to the door. A knife means a man, a fork a woman, a teaspoon is a child, and a

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[flying_blind]

I have a vague memory of my mom telling me that her mother had that superstition. My mom was down on superstitions of all sorts, but my grandmother really believed a lot of that stuff, even going to fortune tellers, and she used to read tea leaves herself. My grandmother's parents were both Canadian, her father predominantly Scottish and her mother predominantly French but also with quite a bit of Scottish.

[blue_by_you]

It was probably in the family quite a ways back then!

[theirgrammy]

I have heard of that superstition, my dad and his side of the family are/were very superstition. And they have some pretty off the wall superstitions.

[blue_by_you]

Are they Norwegian, Scottish or English by any chance? Or possibly from Maine?

[theirgrammy]

Irish…. straight from Ireland. 🤗

[blue_by_you]

My friend Mick who is Irish and lives in Ireland said he knew this saying too.

[galdrin]

Yes - it was a common saying in our family - German descent.