This section is from the book "Kentucky Superstitions", by Daniel Lindsey Thomas, Lucy Blayney Thomas. Also available from Amazon: Kentucky Superstitions.
783. If you touch the beauty spot on your face, you will go abroad. Compare the Divination sign that if you can touch the beauty spot with your finger your sweetheart loves you.
784. You will have bad luck if you lie on your face at night.......................Western Kentucky
785. If your face bums, some one is thinking of you......................................Mountains
786. The number of wrinkles in the forehead shows the number of children you will have......Mountains
787. If you join your hands behind your head, someone in your family will be ill or will die......Blue Grass
788. When your nose itches, someone is coming. Rub it on wood, to make the arrival certain.
789. If the nose itches, someone is coming to be waited on.
790. If the right side of the nose itches, a man is coming; if the left, a woman; if the end of the nose itches, someone will come riding.
791. If your nose itches on the end, expect a negro.
792. If the right side of your nose itches, your sweetheart is coming.
793. "If your nose itches,
Somebody is coming with a hole in his breeches" ...........................Western Kentucky
794. If your nose itches, you will quarrel with someone.
795. "If your nose itches,
Kiss a fool, meet a stranger, Fall in love or be in danger."
796. If your nose itches when you are away from home, you may know you are wanted at home....................................Western Kentucky
797. An itching nose is the sign of money.....Mountains
798. People with pointed noses interfere with the affairs of others.
799. If your right ear burns or is red, someone is talking well about you.
800. If your left ear burns or is red, someone is speaking ill of you.
801. If the right ear bums, pull it nine times up, saying,
"Talk up."
If the left ear burns, pull it nine times down, saying,
"Talk down."
802. If either ear burns, moisten the fingers, touch the ear, and repeat these words: "Talk good, talk bad. If it's good, may good betide you. If it's bad, may the devil ride you."
803. If your right ear burns, a man is talking about you..................................Mountains
804. If your left ear burns, a woman is talking about you..................................Mountains
805. If your ear burns, someone is talking about you.
Put saliva on it and it will stop burning if the remarks are kind; it will not stop burning if the remarks are unkind...................Blue Grass
806. "Itching ear, a secret you'll hear."
807. As to the ear's burning -
"If left or right, Good at night."
808. A burning ear is the sign of someone's talking about you. Spit on it, and you will outwit the talker.. ..................................Mountains
809. If your right ear itches, a boy is going to tell you a secret.......................Central Kentucky
810. If your left ear itches, a girl will tell you a secret...............................Central Kentucky
811. A ringing in the ear foretells a death in the family.
It is called the death bell.
812. Small ears are marks of stinginess.
813. Large ears signify generosity.
814. Small ears set tight to the head indicate a mean, roguish disposition.
815. If the ear is thin and angular, the owner is badtempered and cruel.
816. If the ear is long and hangs down, the possesser will have long life.
817. If you can see the sunshine through a man's ears, he is a rascal.
818. If your right eye itches, you will get a letter,
819. If the right eye itches, you will see something pleasant.
820. If your right eye itches, you will get money.
821. It indicates bad luck for the right eye to itch.........................................Mountains
822. "Itching left eye,
Sign you'll cry."
823. It indicates good luck for the left eye to itch.........................................Mountains
824. If your eye jerks, you may expect to see someone unexpectedly.........................Blue Grass
825. If your right eye twitches, you will cry.
826. If your eye bats, you will get a whipping.Blue Grass
827. Clear eyes are the sign of a clear conscience.
828. Put jimson-weed juice in your eye, to make light eyes turn dark.
829. When a large part of the white of a negro's eye shows, you may know that you have to do with a mean negro.
830. It brings bad luck to you, to see a cross-eyed person.
831. Avert the bad luck produced by the sight of a crosseyed person by crossing your fingers.
832. To avert the bad luck that comes at the sight of a cross-eyed person, cross your fingers and spit over the cross.
833. You will have bad luck if you see a cross-eyed negro.
834. If the first woman you meet in the morning is either cross-eyed or has red hair, you will have bad luck that day....................Western Kentucky
835. Heavy eye-brows that meet signify a deep mind on the part of the possessor.
836. If your eye-brows meet, you will be rich.
837. A person whose eye-brows meet cannot be trusted.
838. If your eye-brows grow together across your nose, you will become a murderer.
839. Anyone whose eye-brows grow in a straight line across the forehead possesses a fiendish disposition.
840. If the eye-brows meet, the person has a jealous nature.
841. If you cut your eye-lashes, you will be able to see the wind....................Louisville Negroes
842. The "evil eye" is supposed to have malevolent power.
843. A coral or jet hand with fingers clenched will keep off the disaster threatened by an "evil eye"........................................Blue Grass
844. A dimple in your chin is a sign that Cupid has touched you.
"A dimple in your chin,
Many lovers you shall win."
 
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