1640. To rock a chair when no one is in it, is a sign that you are rocking someone out of the family.

1641. To avert the bad luck incident to rocking an unoccupied chair, one may place a pillow in the chair.

1642. If you sit on the front edge of your chair, you are of a grasping disposition............Blue Grass

1643. It is a sign of death if an old clock strikes that has not been running.

1644. If an old clock that has not been running strikes, one of the family will die in the number of years indicated by the number of the strokes.

1645. If a weight in the family clock falls, there will be a death in the family.

1646. If the clock ticks loudly at midnight, there will be a death in the family.

1647. If the family clock stops, there will be a death in the family.

1648. It causes bad luck to have two clocks running in one house..............................Mountains

1649. A watch-tick sound in the wall is the sign of a death in the family. A "death-ticking" in some article of furniture is a sign of death.

1650. If you hear the furniture creaking, bad luck will follow.

1651. If you hear the furniture crack in the night, there will be a death.

1652. A creaking wall indicates death.

1653. To go in at one door and out at another indicates that you will have company.

1654. A person will have bad luck who goes in at one door and out at another.

1655. To stumble when going upstairs is a sign that you will receive a letter.

1656. To hang out clothes after dark brings bad luck.

1657. To shake out a table-cloth after dark brings ill luck.

1658. If you take a hoe or a spade into the house, someone will dig your grave.

1659. If a hoe is carried through one door and out at another, the youngest member of the family will die.

1660. If you carry a hoe through the house, your calf will die ...............................Mountains

1661. It causes bad luck to throw a hoe over the fence.

1662. It brings bad luck to carry an axe into the house.

1663. Avert the bad luck of carrying a spade or an axe into the house by carrying the implement out the same way that it was brought in.

1664. It causes bad luck to step on an axe... .Mountains

1665. It brings bad luck to draw a rake or a hoe across a porch.

1666. If you carry a plant into the house through one door, you must take it out through the same door, or a person in your family will soon die. Blue Grass

1667. If you pour some of the first of each milking into the creek, the cow will not go dry.

1668. In milking if you throw milk on the ground, the cow will go dry. Throw it into the running water.

1669. Lightning and thunder will sour milk.

1670. If you lend a churn, your cow will go blind or suffer some other disaster..................Mountains

1671. You cannot make butter when elders are in bloom...................................Mountains

1672. Hold a buttercup under your chin. If it casts a reflection upon your chin, you like butter..........................................Mountains

1673. If while currying a horse you drop a curry-comb or brush, you will miss your aim that day in hunting.

1674. It causes bad luck to knock a vase off a mantel......................................Blue Grass

1675. If you iron the hem of your husband's shirt, you iron his money away..............Central Kentucky

1676. It brings good luck to bury your fish bones.........................................Mountains

1677. If a working woman leaves the place of her employment after five o'clock in the afternoon without at least a morsel of food in her pocket, she will be without food the next day............Blue Grass

1678. If a working woman in leaving the place of her employment after five o'clock in the afternoon turns back for a forgotten morsel of bread, she will have bad luck. The bread must be brought to her.......................................Blue Grass.

1679. It brings bad luck for the kettle to move on the hearth without apparent cause.

1680. It brings bad luck for the door to push in and out without wind.

1681. If your thread knots, you will die before the article that is being made is worn out.

1682. If while hemming a napkin you prick your finger and the blood gets on the napkin, you will die before it wears out....................Blue Grass

1683. If two people sew on the same piece at the same time, the older will outlive the younger.

1684. If you accidentally drop a needle and it sticks into the floor, some one is coming.

1685. To hang up the calendar before the old year is out will bring you bad luck.

1686. If you walk over a rug and turn up the edge, you will have bad luck.

1687. If you walk back over a rug which you have turned up at the edge, you will avert the bad luck.

1688. To pass any one on the stairs causes bad luck.

1689. If you stand in a friend's open door, you will bring bad luck to that friend.

1690. You will have bad luck if you walk through a door backward...................Western Kentucky

1691. It brings bad luck to go through a doorway when some one is sitting in it.

1692. You will have bad luck if you bump against any one while you pass through a door.

1693. Do not knock on your own door. Western Kentucky

1694. Never hang any thing on a door knob.

1695. If you break a glass door or a window, you are certain to have bad luck.

1696. It brings bad luck to shake hands across a door-sill.

1697. It causes bad luck to jump out of a window unless you jump in again backward.

1698. Shaking hands over a fence or a gate is unlucky.

1699. It brings bad luck to close an open gate.

1700. It is unlucky to touch an open gate.

1701. A bed should head toward the north.