Folk omens and superstitions
Right palm itching? Grandma would say money is coming. Here are the best-known folk omens: what the belief says and where it comes from.
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- Shaking hands over the thresholdthreshold, handshake, quarrel
- Shoes on the tableshoes, table, quarrel
- Sitting at the table cornertable corner, marriage, seven years
- Sitting down before a journeyjourney, travel, sitting down
- Sneezingsneezing, truth, health
- Spider in the housespider, home, money
- Spilled saltsalt, quarrel, table
- Stepping over someonestepping over, child, growth
- Sweeping after darksweeping, evening, money