Family Superstitions
My mom (and my grandma) had a lot of superstitious sayings and I've used them and passed them down to my daughter. There's one that I'd never heard anyone else say until last night. The superstition is if you drop a piece of silverware it means someone will be coming to the door. A knife means a man, a fork a woman, a teaspoon is a child, and a tablespoon is more than one person.
Just before bed last night, I was reading "Mystery on the Isle of Shoals: Closing the Case on the Smuttynose Ax Murders of 1873," and the author, J. Dennis Robinson, mentioned that superstition as being common to the people of Shoals who were a mix of Scandinavian and Scots.
Now I'm curious if any of you have heard that saying or used that saying in your families?
By the way, if you've read Anita Shreve's book, "The Weight of Water" or seen the movie based on it, this book is about the real case and is very interesting.