2024. "See a pin and let it lie

Sorrow will come by and by."

"Find a pin, and let it lie,

You'll want a pin before you die."

2025. If you find a pin with the point toward you and place it on the shoulder of your coat with the point toward the back, and leave it there for three days, good luck will come to you.

2026. If you see a pin with the point toward you and pick it up and stick it into wood, you will have good luck. If the point is away from you, pick it up and give it to someone else for good luck.. .Blue Grass

2027. If you find a pin with the head towards you, there is mail for you at the Post Office......Mountains

2028. If you pick up a pin lying with its side toward you, you will get a letter.

2029. If you find a pin lying with its side toward you, you will go buggy-riding the next day.

2030. If you pick up a pin lying with its side toward you, you will receive a kiss, or you will see your sweetheart that day.

2031. If you find a pin with the side towards you, you will get a new dress.................Mountains

2032. If anyone takes a pin from your dress, bad luck will follow......................Louisville Negroes

2033. If a pin stands on the point in your dress, someone is "on his head" to see you.

2034. If when you are trying on a dress, the dressmaker sticks a pin in your other clothes, you will not be married that year...................Blue Grass

2035. To prick your finger as you pin your waist is unlucky.

2036. Avert the disaster of the last mentioned superstition by burning the pin.

2037. It brings good luck to find a brass pin, if you stick it on your shoulder..........Western Kentucky

2038. You will lose a friend if you give a person a pin

She must pick it up after you lay it down.

2039. If you drop a pin and it sticks into the floor, someone is coming.

2040. You will have good luck if you find a safety pin.

2041. It is unlucky to find a safety pin in water, for a sad visit awaits you.................Blue Grass

2042. If a needle falls and sticks into the floor, you will have bad luck.

2043. If you break a needle in a garment while making it, the person for whom it is made will not live to wear it out.

2044. If you find a hairpin and hang it up on the first thing you see, you will get a letter.

2045. If you find a hairpin and hang it on the first nail you see, you will get a friend.

2046. If you find a hairpin, hang it on a nail or anything iron. It will bring good luck.

2047. If your hairpin drops out of your hair, someone whom you like is thinking of you...........................................Louisville Negroes

2048. If a woman drops a hairpin and fails to pick it up, she will lose a friend.

2049. If you pick up a hairpin, you will fall... Mountains

2050. If a hairpin is about to come out of a girl's hair, someone is "on his head" about her..........................................Western Kentucky

2051. If you accidentally leave your gloves and have to go back for them, the next person you call on will be out.

2052. It is unlucky to pick up an old glove in the street.

2053. If you find a wet handkerchief, you may know that all your tears have been shed and that you will live happily...........................Blue Grass

2054. The moonstone is a lucky stone.

2055. If you wear an opal ring and it is not your birth-stone, you will have bad luck.

2056. If you wear an opal ring and it is not your birthstone, you must give it away to avoid bad luck.

2057. If you wear pearls, you will shed tears.

2058. If you count pearls in a ring or a brooch, you will lose them.

2059. When danger is imminent to a person who has pearls, they lose their lustre.

2060. It brings good luck to carry a piece of pearl jewelry..................................Mountains

2061. Do not let anyone take a ring off your finger.

2062. If you take a ring off your friend's hand, you will have bad luck.

2063. Turn one hundred seal rings for good luck.

2064. If you find a button and put it into your shoe, you will have good luck.

2065. If you find a button, you will receive a letter soon.

2066. It causes bad luck to find a button smaller than a penny .............................Mountains

2067. The finding of a pearl button means that there is a letter for you in the Post Office...........................................Central Kentucky

2068. If you find a button with so many holes in it, you will receive a letter with the same number of pages ..................................Mountains

2069. When you find a button, count the holes in it. You will find that number of pieces of money before you come to your stopping place. Central Kentucky

2070. To carry in your pocket a button that you have found brings good luck.

2071. To sew a button on a garment that you are wearing brings bad luck.

2072. If you drop a comb, somebody is coming.

2073. If you drop a comb, you will be disappointed.

2074. If the comb with which you are combing your hair falls behind you, you will have trouble......................................Western Kentucky

2075. Avert the bad luck of dropping a comb by putting your foot on it................Central Kentucky

2076. If you are combing your hair and let the comb fall, you will get money...........Louisville Negroes

2077. It brings bad luck to count the teeth of a comb......................................Mountains

2078. If you count comb teeth, the youngest one in the family will die.

2079. Do not count the teeth of a comb, for if you do they will come out...............Southern Kentucky

2080. When your skirt turns up, spit on it and turn it down, to obtain good luck.