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House and Home Superstitions

There are many superstitions and old wives tales about the house and home. From our collection of folklore, here are some sayings for good luck in your home.

  • Scatter Solomon's seal on the floor to banish serpents and venomous creatures from the room.
  • To protect your house from lightning, gather hazel tree branches on Palm Sunday and keep them in water.
  • Add caraway seeds to chicken feed to keep poultry from wandering. Feed the seeds to homing pigeons to help them find their way back.
  • Stuff fennel in your keyhole or hang it over your door to protect against witches.
  • Never carry a hoe into the house. If you do so by mistake, carry it out again, walking backward to avoid bad luck.
  • Never walk under a ladder, which is Satan's territory. If you must do it, cross your fingers or make the sign of the fig (closed fist, with thumb between index and middle fingers).
  • If you give a steel blade to a friend, make the recipient pay you a penny to avoid cutting the friendship.
  • Never give a knife as a housewarming present, or your new neighbor will become an enemy.
  • Never pound a nail after sundown, or you will wake the tree gods.
  • Nail an evergreen branch to new rafters to bring good luck. An empty hornets' nest, hung high, also will bring good luck to a house of any age.
  • When you move to a new house, always enter first with a loaf of bread and a new broom. Never bring an old broom into the house.
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Here are some things my

Submitted by Ladonna Sanders on Sun, 2010-03-07 00:48.

Here are some things my mother used to tell us kids.Give someone a penny for every wart they have and they will go away.
Bury your baby's navel cord in the garden and you will always have plenty to eat.
Make a necklace out of a dime and some yarn and let your baby wear it and your baby will not have teething problems.
My Mother in law said when a baby is born to get a fresh egg and write the baby's name and birthday on it and put it up somewhere and the baby will not have teething problems.
There are a lot more,I forgot most of them.

I have new iron frying pans ,

Submitted by pat hinegardner on Tue, 2010-03-02 21:27.

I have new iron frying pans , how do I season them?

with a piece of bacon fat or

Submitted by Ladonna Sanders on Sun, 2010-03-07 00:51.

with a piece of bacon fat or fatback.rub it on good and heat your pans in the oven for about an hour.Rub it only on the inside of pans.
Hope this helps.