1765. An accidental dropping of a knife brings a woman caller.

1766. An accidental dropping of a fork brings a man caller.

1767. If you drop a fork, your best friend is coming. .....................................Mountains

1 Other superstitions concerning the accidental placement of two forks, two knives, or two spoons at one's plate at table are given under Divinations.

1768. If you drop your fork, some one is coming from the direction in which the fork points.

1769. An accidental dropping of a spoon brings a child.

1770. If you drop a spoon, a baby will be born in the family.

1771. If a spoon is dropped, a negro woman is coming.....................................Mountains

1772. If a large spoon is dropped, a large family is coming.

1773. If you drop a tablespoon, you may look for a woman and a baby.............Northern Kentucky

1774. The presence of two forks at one place at table means that two fools are coming...........................................Western Kentucky

1775. If you drop a knife during a meal, you are exactly one half through the meal......Central Kentucky

1776. If when you drop a knife and fork they cross, you may expect bad luck.....North-eastern Kentucky

1777. To drop a spoon brings disappointment.

1778. It causes bad luck for a woman to break a plate and step on the pieces.

1779. It brings bad luck to break any kind of dish.

1780. To avert ill luck, throw the pieces of a broken dish into a gully.

1781. If you bum sassafras for stove wood, you will break all the dishes.......................Mountains

1782. The dropping of a dish-rag indicates the coming of a caller. If it opens out when it falls, the guest will arrive for the next meal.

1783. If you wish to prevent a visitor's arrival that has been forecast by the dropping of a dish-rag, step backward over the rag.

1784. If a dish-rag that drops is spread out, a woman is coming.

1785. If a dish-rag that falls is not spread out, a man is coming.

1786. If when you drop a dish-rag on the floor you shake it under the table and name it the person that you wish to come, he will come.... Southern Kentucky

1787. If you drop a dish-cloth, pick it up, and think about some one. The first one you think about will arrive within an hour..................Mountains

1788. If after dropping a dish-rag you kiss it, your sweetheart will come.....................Mountains

1789. If you drop a dish-rag, a slouch is coming.

If you drop a dish-rag, a worse slouch than you is coming.

1790. If you drop a dish-rag and it spreads out, you will have bad luck.

1791. If you drop a dish-rag and it does not unfold, no bad luck will befall you.

1792. The boiling of a dish-rag in soiled water breaks bad luck.

1793. If you drop a tea towel, someone is coming.

1794. If you leave your dish water in a pan over night, you will dream of the Devil..........Blue Grass

1795. If a woman forgets to wash a skillet, she may expect a guest for the next meal.

1796. It brings bad luck to pour water out of a pail over the end of the handle.

1797. If two women run together in preparing a meal, they will work together next year.

1798. "A watched pot never boils."

1799. Lightning and thunder will addle eggs.

1800. Make jelly on sunny days............Mountains

1801. If you drop a spoon into pickles while you are making them you will be a sour old woman........................................Blue Grass

1802. If you cook frog-legs and set them by, they will become raw again...............Central Kentucky

1803. If when you are cooking onions you place a pan of water over them, there will be no odor...................................Western Kentucky

1804. If you boil a biscuit with cabbage, there will be no odor........................Western Kentucky

1805. If anything that may be eaten is burned, you will have to pick it out of hell-fire with your hands in the after-life.

1806. If you burn salt on the stove or in the grate, you will have to pick each grain out of fire in hell.

1807. Be sure to throw a pinch of borrowed salt into the fire.

1808. Do not return the salt that you have borrowed.

1809. It causes bad luck to spill salt.

1810. If you spill salt on the table, you will get a scolding before Friday.

1811. If you spill salt between yourself and the person next you at table, you two will quarrel.

1812. You can avert a quarrel from spilling salt by throwing a pinch over your left shoulder.

1813. If salt is spilt at table, there will be a guest at the next meal.

1814. If salt is passed you at table, it passes you trouble.

1815. If salt is thrown away, bad luck will follow.

1816. If you throw salt into a whirlwind, you will see the Devil .............................Mountains

1817. If you throw salt behind someone who has done you a bad deed, he will never return. Louisville Negroes

1818. If someone comes to your house whom you do not like, throw salt into his tracks. He will then not bring you bad luck...........Louisville Negroes

1819. When a stand of pepper is overturned, there will be bad luck, unless the person who turns it over burns an old dish-rag.

1820. If the pepper falls toward you from a pepper stand, you will have bad luck.

1821. Do not eat too much meat, for, if you do, your face will become roughened.

1822. If you eat too much meat at supper, you will have bad dreams.

1823. If you eat meat for supper, you will dream of negroes ......................Southern Kentucky

1824. If you drop a piece of meat from your mouth at the table, there will be a death in the family..................................Louisville Negroes

1825. If you drop anything while you are eating, the act indicates that someone else desires it.