smoke rises,.
or crickets sing. .
It will be a Bad Winter if: .
Squirrels begin to gather nuts early,.
fur on animals such as horses, dogs, and cows is thicker than usual,.
the fur on the bottom of a rabbits foot is thicker than usual. crows gather.
together,.
screech owls sound like women crying,.
hornets build their nest close to the ground,.
an ant builds its hill high. blackberry blooms are heavy,.
carrots grow deep,.
onions have more layers than usual,.
bark on trees is thicker,.
corn shucks grow thicker and tighter around the ears,.
leaves shed before they turn, .
or grass is a dark green during the summer. .
These superstitions are more realistic and are based on things or.
occurrences that do suggest a bad winter, such heavier fur on animals or thicker.
barks on trees. These superstitions came about as the other weather ones.
did-through almanacs and personal experience or observation.
Good Luck.
Today, superstitions cannot exist without one of the most popular parts of one of them-luck. Good luck has always been the one that all people hope to.
meet paths with, but bad luck is the one that people are always most mystified.
by. Both good and bad luck superstitions were developed from wary people who.
did whatever possible to retrieve one and avoid the other. Almost all of the luck superstitions are experiments to achieve luck done by several Appalachian.
people in the 1900s. The "experiments" that they believed brought them good.
luck or happiness were carried down from generation to generation as the good.
luck superstitions. The "experiments" that brought bad luck and misfortune.
were treated the same as the good luck superstitions, only passed on as those for bad luck. Some of the good luck superstitions include:.
On New Year's Day, it is good luck for a man to be your first visitor,.
on New Year's Day, pork and sauerkraut should be the traditional good luck.
meal, if you didn't serve pork, you definitely wouldn't serve poultry because you wouldn't want to serve anything that would scratch out your good luck for.
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