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Good Friday Superstitions

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Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 10 Apr 2009 11:29

There are a number of superstitions relating to Good Friday:

A child born on Good Friday and baptised on Easter Sunday has the gift of healing.

Many fishermen will not set out for catch on Good Friday.

Bread or cakes baked on this day will not go mouldy.

Eggs laid on Good Friday will never go bad.

The planting of crops is not advised on this day, as an old belief says that no iron should enter the ground (i.e. spade, fork etc.).

Hot cross buns baked on Good Friday were supposed to have magical powers. It is said that you could keep a hot cross bun which had been made on Good Friday for at least a year and it wouldn't go mouldy.

Hardened old hot cross buns are supposed to protect the house from fire

Sailors took hot cross buns to sea with them to prevent shipwreck.

A bun baked on Good Friday and left to get hard could be grated up and put in some warm milk to stop an upset tummy.

Having a hair cut on Good Friday will prevent toothaches the rest of the year.

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 10 Apr 2009 11:35

I am really struggling with the last one Colin and cant see the connection

~♥footie~angel♥~

~♥footie~angel♥~ Report 10 Apr 2009 11:36

Oh My Goodness Col wher you get um! I like the hard hot cross bun protectin the house from fire ~ prob all they good for lol

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 10 Apr 2009 11:41

The thing is.....hot cross buns don't last that long in our house colin lol They're lucky to survive the end of the day.