3689. If a firefly comes into the house, there will be one person more or one fewer the next day, that is, someone will go or someone will come.

3690. In firefly season, toads will eat fire.

3691. If you cut a fishing worm into pieces, each piece becomes a complete worm.

3692. If you kill a fly, ten flies will come to the funeral.

3693. If a fly flies around your face continually, a stranger wishes to meet you.

3694. If you kill a daddy-long-legs, the cows will go dry.

3695. If you kill a daddy-long legs, you will lose all your cows..............................Mountains

3696. A white shell-shaped bone from the head of a fish brings good luck. In particular it prevents loss of money, if it is carried in the purse.

3697. If you speak the following couplet to a grasshopper, he will obey you:

"Spit tobacco-juice,

And I'll turn you loose."

3698. It brings bad luck to kill a lady-bug.

3699. A lady-bug will obey the following piece of advice, if it is whispered into its hole: "Lady bug, lady bug, Fly away home. Your house is on fire; Your children will burn."

3700. If you kill a spring lizard, your spring will go dry,

3701. Locusts come every seventeen years; if they have a W on the wing, it means, woe, war and want... ...........................Southern Kentucky

3702. The first louse found in a child's head, if cracked on a tin cup, will make a dancer of the child; on a song-book, a singer; on the Bible, a reader; on the child's head, a simpleton!............Mountains

3703. To dream of head lice will bring money.

3704. A white moth flying is the spirit of a grandparent hovering near.

3705. If you knock down a mud-dauber's nest, you will break your dishes............Western Kentucky

3706. If you carry a piece of oyster shell in your pocket-book, you will have good luck always in the way of riches..................North-eastern Kentucky

3707. When you kill a snake, it will not die until sundown.

3708. If you put a coal on a snake's stomach, while it is awaiting sundown to die, its legs will come out, and it will walk.

3709. If a snake dies before sundown, there will be bad luck.

3710. If you spit into a snake's trail, the snake will die.............................Western Kentucky

3711. If you step on a dead snake, there will be sores on your feet..........................Mountains

3712. If you do not kill the first snake you see every year, you will not overcome your enemies.

3713. If you find the first snake that you see in the spring dead, your enemies are all conquered.

3714. If you kill a snake at mating time, its mate will come to the body.

3715. If you kill a snake and hang it over a fence, you will not see any more snakes that day. .Blue Grass

3716. If you cut a snake into pieces and leave them together, the fragments will unite and crawl away.

3717. Snakes are blind in August.

3718. Snakes will not come about a garden where gourds grow......................Western Kentucky

3719. Snakes may be kept off by the carrying of snake-root.

3720. Black snakes suck cows.

3721. Keep a black snake with you, to drive away bad luck ................................Mountains

3722. If you kill a snake that has sucked a cow, the cow will go dry.

3723. It causes bad luck to touch a rattlesnake skin.

3724. The rattles of a rattlesnake kept in a violin bring good luck to the owner.......Western Kentucky

3725. If you receive rattle-snake rattles from someone, you will come to no harm while that person is near ..................................Mountains

3726. Snake dust (that is, the dust made by pulverizing a dried snake), shaken into one's shoes, will poison one .................................Negroes

3727. A "snake-doctor" (that is, a dragon-fly) warns snakes of danger and shows them the whereabouts of food.

3728. It causes bad luck to kill a dragon-fly.

3729. If a dragon-fly lights on your line while you are fishing, the fish will not bite.

3730. The crawling of a spider on you brings good luck.

3731. It causes bad luck to kill a spider found crawling on you.

3732. A spider at night brings good luck. Do not kill it.

3733. If a spider comes down in front of your face, you will get a letter. But if you kill the spider, you will not get the letter.

3734. If you catch a spider weaving its web downward, catch it in the palm of your hand and kill it. You will receive a letter.

3735. If a spider crawls on your head, a letter will come from the direction it is moving.

3736. If a spider weaves a web over your head, you will get a letter.

3737. If a spider lets a web down on your shoulder, you will get a letter.

3738. If a spider spins its thread in the doorway or in front of one's face, a welcome visitor may be expected.

3739. The crawling of a spider on your bed foretells the coming of a stranger.

3740. By killing a spider on your bed, you prevent the coming of a stranger.

3741. When a spider swings down from a web in front of you, you will see a good friend whom you are not expecting.

3742. If a spider crawls up the door, a stranger is coming.

3743. "Where the spider-webs grow, The beaus don't go."

3744. If a spider gets on your dress, you will have a new one.

3745. It is lucky to find a spider on your clothes. It spins your wealth.

3746. If a spider is hanging over your head, you will receive money.

3747. Carry a dead spider in your shoe for good luck.

3748. If you catch a spider on you, wrap it up and put it into your stocking for luck.

3749. If a spider spins a web in front of you, take it and put it into your pocket-book alive. It is supposed to bring you money.................Mountains

3750. It brings bad luck to kill a black spider.. Blue Grass

3751. If there is a black spider on you, you will get a letter from a black-headed person.

3752. With every spider that you kill, you kill an enemy.

3753. A spider on a bride's trousseau brings good luck.

3754. It causes good luck to go through a spider-web.

3755. It is unlucky to see a spider spin his web from the ceiling at night.

3756. It brings good luck to see a spider spin his web from the ceiling in the morning.

3757. If you run into a cobweb, you will get a letter.......................................Blue Grass

3758. Brightly-colored spiders, lizards, snakes, and the like are poisonous...................Mountains

3759. All spiders and tarantulas are poisonous.

3760. It is firmly believed by the people of Leslie County, a mountain county, that President McKinley's name was written by spiders in their webs as a prophecy of his death................Mountains

3761. If you cut a tick's head off and bury its body with its back down, there will be rain.........Mountains

3762. If you kill a turtle, it will not die until sundown.

3763. When a turtle bites, it will hold on until there is thunder.

3764. If a wasp flies into the house, it brings good luck for the family......................Mountains

3765. If you see a fever worm, you must spit on it over your left shoulder; otherwise you will have typhoid fever.

3766. When you see a fever worm, you must, to avert a fever, spit three times.

3767. It brings bad luck to kill a fever worm.

3768. If you sit in the sun and look at a yellow caterpillar, you will have a chill..........Western Kentucky

3769. If a measuring worm measures your whole length, you will die.

3770. If you find a measuring worm on your dress, suit, or hat, you will have a new one.

3771. If you see a thousand-legged worm, you will die, unless you spit or stamp your feet.....Mountains

3772. If a thousand-legged worm counts your teeth, you will die. Therefore close your mouth in the presence of one........................Mountains