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Superstitions and "old wives tales" are every where. I have heard a lot of them lately with the new year coming up.

With this challenge I would like you to see if you can find books that involve old superstitions and wives tales.

As always I am open to a pretty wide interpretation of the challenge so have fun with it!

https://www.childrensmn.org/education...

Probably not an all inclusive list of old wive's tales, but will get us started.

Awesome,

My grandmother's favorite was "if you get your belly wet when you wash dishes you are going to marry a drunk"

Old Wives' Tales

1. Smack an Apple Tree with a Chain to Produce More Fruit - I looked up "Old wives's tales about plants" to find this one. In The Spellshop, Keila just has to perfect a spell to get things to grow. Jan. 12

Lea Ann wrote: "Old Wives' Tales

1. Smack an Apple Tree with a Chain to Produce More Fruit - I looked up "Old wives's tales about plants" to find this one. In The Spellshop, Keila just has to per..."

I thought this was a cute book!

I am stretching a bit with my first one, using the Superstition of a broken mirror, I read The Mirror which the mirror isn't broken yet but a creepy mirror keeps popping up showing bad visions of the past.

2. Childbirth: A full moon will induce labor. Chose this one for The Frozen River since the main character is a midwife. This was a fantastic book, btw.

3. Old wives' tale about not going into the woods at midnight because the veil between the real and supernatural is lifted. Paired this with The God of the Woods in which two siblings go missing in the same woods years apart.

4. Old wives' tale about sunrise "Red sky in morning, sailors take warning," paired with The Reek of Red Herrings: A Dandy Gilver Mystery because the mystery takes place in a fishing village in Scotland.

5. Moths - old Appalachian tale that white moths mean a deceased ancestor is near. Bittersweet in the Hollow actually used that old wives' tale in the book, so I looked it up and it's real mountain folklore.