ANIMAL SUPERSTITIONS

Have you ever wondered why you see a specific animal or why you are drawn to a particular animal?
Maybe your cat does strange things and stares at something you cannot see.
Most Animals have powerful intuition, and some even have myths and legends attached to them.
Most Cultures have sacred Animals Cats always surrounded the Egyptians.
Here are a few funny and way out superstitions for you to believe or not.
- Wrap a spider in a raisin and swallow it. This was an old remedy for chills and fever.
- Carrying a badger's tooth in your pocket will bring good luck at cards and gambling.
- Anoint bald spots on your head with goose dung, and hair will grow back.
- If you kill a wren, you will soon break a bone.
- Blue Jays spend every Friday with the devil reporting sins.
- They said that a pillow made of pigeon feathers would prolong a dying person's life in Britain.
- Turn the money over in your pocket the first time you hear a cuckoo call for the first time in the year. Then you will have more money.
- To kill a beetle is to court lousy luck.
- To kill a cricket is unlucky, and one in the house brings good luck.
- Hares change their sex yearly.
- Butterflies are the souls of the dead waiting to pass through purgatory.
- Brush an infant with a rabbit's foot to avert all accidents at birth.
- Hares found in the fields among cattle on May Day are witches stealing the milk.
- In England, to see a black cat cross the road is lucky.
- In parts of Yorkshire, England, fishers' wives keep black cats at home to ensure their husband's safety at sea.
- A black lamb brings luck to the flock.
- To cure a man of drunkenness, put a live eel in his drink.
- In both Scotland and England, it was said that goats are never seen for 24 hours straight because they visit the devil to have their beards combed.
- The ghosts of dogs walk around on St. Johns Eve but are only seen by other dogs.
Sarah Kulkens ©2020
