2926. "Plant cucumber seed on the sixth of July;

You will have cucumbers, wet or dry"......................................Western Kentucky

2927. Place combread crumbs about your cucumber plants. They will attract ants, which will destroy the cucumber insects..........Western Kentucky

2928. If you blow all the seeds off a dandelion ball in two blows, you will get a new dress.

2929. Plant flax on Good Friday............................................North-eastern Kentucky

2930. If you swallow the first forget-me-not of the season, you will get a new dress of the same color.

2931. It is bad luck to burn grape vines..........................................Western Kentucky

2932. A blade of grass or a leaf a-quiver when all others are still shows that a fairy is dancing on it.

2933. If you pass a wagonload of fresh hay without seizing a handful, you will have bad luck... Blue Grass

2934. If you see a hay wagon and say, "Load of hay, load of hay, Take my wish and go away," you will have good luck.

2935. To follow a haywagon out of sight with your gaze will bring good luck. The luck will be better if nothing comes between.

2936. "Where hollyhocks grow,

Beaus never go."..............Central Kentucky

2937. If you plant nasturtiums on St. Patrick's Day, they will grow fast......................Blue Grass

2938. If a nettle points toward you, pick it up, for it means good luck....................Mountains

2939. A nutmeg worn around the neck will bring good luck.

2940. It causes good luck to carry an onion in your pocket..................................Mountains

2941. If you swallow the seed of an orange, your best friend is thinking of you.............Mountains

2942. Plant parsley, and you plant sorrow.

2943. It brings bad luck to transplant parsley.

2944. If you accidentally drop peanut shells near your house, you may know that policemen are coming to the house.................Louisville Negroes

2945. It brings good luck to plant peas on the fourteenth of February.......................Mountains

2946. Peppers to prosper, must be planted by a red-headed or a hot-tempered person.

2947. If you want peppers to grow, you must be angry when you are planting them... Western Kentucky

2948. You will be poisoned if you eat "pokeberries."

2949. St. Patrick's Day is a good time on which to plant potatoes.

2950. If you plant potatoes on the sixth of April, they will not be attacked by insects.

2951. If you plant potatoes on dark nights, the moles will eat them...........................Mountains

2952. An Irish potato is growing until the skin cannot be flipped off with the fingers.

2953. If you see a puff ball (any fungus of the genus

Lycoperdon), you will have fever. You can avert the fever by spitting nine times.

2954. The redbud is the tree on which Judas hanged himself.

2955. If you let a rose bloom in the house, a death will follow.............................Blue Grass

2956. To plant sage seed will bring death or severe illness to one of the family.

2957. "Where sunflowers grow, No beaus go."

2958. Plant sweetpeas and garden peas on the fourteenth of February........................Blue Grass

2959. Plant sweetpeas on the twenty-second of February............................Central Kentucky

2960. Plant sweetpeas on St. Patrick's Day.. Mountains

2961. Plant sweetpeas on Good Friday......Blue Grass

2962. It is bad luck for the dropper of tobacco to get more than one row ahead of the setter.

2963. It is bad luck to buy tobacco at or toward twilight; many stop buying by three o'clock in the afternoon.

2964. It was recently thought unlucky to buy tobacco at exactly six cents a pound. Of late the high price of tobacco has made this superstition obsolete.

2965. Some buyers of tobacco will not bid the even amounts but will skip, for example, from fourteen and three-fourth cents to fifteen and one-fourth cents.

2966. Do not buy tobacco of pawpaw color (motley color); it is called "fool-catcher."

2967. It is bad luck to chew your tobacco twice (that is, bad to tell a story twice).

2968. If one plants a tree by a grave, and the tree dies, the planter of it will die.

2969. "Blossoms out of season,

Trouble out of reason."

2970. It is good luck to find two of any kind of fruit grown together.....................Blue Grass

2971. If you count the fruit on a tree before it is ripe, it will fall off.

2972. If you have a tree that will not bear fruit, drive a peg into it, to make it bear.

2973. To knock on wood will avert disaster - notably disaster that follows boasting.

2974. If you can break an apple in half with your hands, you will always be your own boss.

2975. If you plant a cedar tree in your yard and it lives, you will have good luck.

2976. If you bring in a cedar tree and set it near a building, you will die.

2977. Death will come to the man who transplants a cedar tree, when the lower limbs grow to be the length of his coffin.

2978. If you let a cedar tree grow in your yard large enough to shade a grave, someone in your family will die.

2979. If a cedar tree that you have planted dies in your yard, one of your family will die. Some say that the death will take place within a year.

2980. You will have bad luck if you burn cedar.

2981. It causes bad luck to break a dogwood switch.

2982. You will have bad luck if you ride with a dogwood switch.

2983. It is very unlucky to boom a log upon a log-wagon with a dogwood pole.........Western Kentucky

2984. It is unlucky for a horseback rider to use a hardwood switch.

2985. Locust trees are more often struck by lightning than any others..................Western Kentucky

2986. Mulberries are poisonous during the time of the seventeen-year locust.... North-eastern Kentucky

2987. Leaves of the peach in a poultice will cure rheumatism and neuralgia.

2988. If a peach tree blooms before its time, a death will occur in the family soon.

2989. If you can remove the peeling from a pear without breaking it, throw it over your left shoulder for good luck...................Western Kentucky

2990. If you plant a pine tree, you will die when it is large enough to shade your grave......Mountains

2991. As many black pines as you plant in your yard, so many will die in your family.........Mountains

2992. It causes bad luck to burn or haul sassafras wood.

2993. If you burn sassafras wood or leaves, a horse or a mule of yours will die within a week.... Mountains

2994. To burn walnut wood brings bad luck. Mountains

2995. Walnut trees often grow near a wooden fence. The reason for this fact is that squirrels plant or drop walnuts for future use and then forget them.

2996. To plant a weeping willow causes bad luck.

2997. If you plant a weeping willow tree, you will be an old maid............North-western Kentucky

2998. "Plant turnips on the twenty-fifth of July, and you'll have turnips, wet or dry."

2999. You must sow turnip seeds on the twenty-fifth of July, wet or dry, and on the twenty-seventh there will be rain........................Blue Grass

3000. Turnips should not be planted on the seventh of August.

3001. Turnips should be planted on the tenth of August..................................Mountains

3002. To have good luck with turnips, say as you throw out the handful of seed: "One for the fly, one for the Devil, and one for I."

3003. Plant watermelons one week after apple blossom time..............................Blue Grass

3004. Plant watermelons on the first of May before sunrise.

3005. If you plant your watermelons on the first morning of May in your night clothes before the sun is up, the insects will never attack them.

3006. If you plant watermelons on the first day of May and carry the seed out in a washing-tub, the melons will grow as large as the tub.

3007. Plant watermelons on the tenth of May.

3008. Watermelons planted on the nineteenth of May will not grow.

3009. If you point at a watermelon with your first finger, the melon will drop off. You must point with all four fingers..................Central Kentucky

3010. It brings bad luck to have weeds grow about the house.......................Western Kentucky

3011. A great deal of snow in winter is a sign of a good wheat crop.

3012. Thunder storms precede a large wheat yield.

3013. You will have good luck if you take a handkerchief, go backward, and throw it over your left shoulder into a wheat field.