tell the bees

[wood smoke 0]

Just lately down where i keep a few chickens i have been thinning out a lot of rats,

i mentioned this to a fella in passing and his advice was...."next time you catch one set it on fire and let it go,when it

runs back down the hole the squeeling and smell will frighten off all the others" He didnt come out with this shit to

shock or try and be the man, he really was advising me and believed it ! also a second person this week suggested

a very similar method. This has got me thinking (no not about ever trying it) but old traditions and methods.

Like if you split a jackdoors tongue when its young it will talk, if you beat the trunk of a walnut tree you get more walnuts

the next year, and if you keep bees and you have a death in the family you must go down and tell the bees or they will

all die.

Is there any truth in any ?? and does walnuts and bees justify this post being in this section ?

so come on what country bizzare coustoms have you heard in your area.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

I don't know about bees and trees, mate. But, out here, I've heard some pretty outrageous stuff about how to get rid of rats. And the guys pronouncing such stuff have a definate air pf superiority about them too. Proper, " 'Pest Controller?! Pffftt! I know how to deal with my Own rats, thankyou! ", sort of air? It's scary. I think some of these guys actually Practice what they preach!

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[Rutland Rabbit 0]

Hello Wood Smoke,

I think one of the really common old sayings is about beetles - if you stand on one it rains for 40 days. Or that might be spiders, I can't remember now.

 

I've never heard the one about the Jackdaw before - you'd need a steady hand.

[Knifebar 0]

Just lately down where i keep a few chickens i have been thinning out a lot of rats,

i mentioned this to a fella in passing and his advice was...."next time you catch one set it on fire and let it go,when it

runs back down the hole the squeeling and smell will frighten off all the others" He didnt come out with this shit to

shock or try and be the man, he really was advising me and believed it ! also a second person this week suggested

a very similar method. This has got me thinking (no not about ever trying it) but old traditions and methods.

Like if you split a jackdoors tongue when its young it will talk, if you beat the trunk of a walnut tree you get more walnuts

the next year, and if you keep bees and you have a death in the family you must go down and tell the bees or they will

all die.

Is there any truth in any ?? and does walnuts and bees justify this post being in this section ?

so come on what country bizzare coustoms have you heard in your area.

 

 

Stangely enough a neighbour here done that with a rat but the feckin thing ran into the shed and burnt the f&*kin shed. I also heard if you paint a rat white and let him go he will drive the rest out completely. Never tried it.

 

Knifebar

[leegreen 2,150]

Old wifes tales I think they are called, the one about the Jackdaw I have heard but the one about the rat, no. I think the are both very cruel and a load of bo--cks. I'm sure if you kept a Jackdaw long enough so its poor tounge healed after you had brutalised it, it would probably learn how to talk anyway

Edited February 5, 2008 by leegreen

[BlueCoyote 0]

i think like Knifebar said.... stupid rat would probably run into your house and burn it down rather than down the burrow!!

THAT sounds like one of those sayings designed to yank your chain.... when my mom was a little girl she over heard her grandmother and aunt gossiping about someone. her grandfather walked in the house, over heard a bit and said "Yeah and if you put salt on a bird's tail you can catch it!" ..... being so young my mom thought that was a great idea.. not seeing it for what it was. she grabbed the jar of salt and went outside to try and catch a bird. she said she got close enough to the damned birds that if she hadnt been trying to salt its tail she WOULD have caught it lol

 

as for bees.... my dad keeps bees and has kept them for decades.... when his dad, aunt, sister, and father in law died i dont recall him ever going out and having lengthy discussions with them about the matter. and i have also not heard of all the bees dying at once unless a bear had moved into the area and destroyed the hives.

 

i'm thinking some of those old wives tales are jokes or thought up as a way to explain the unexplainable.... my grandmother refused to EVER clean her house on new years day for fear that someone in the family would die.

her first born died of pneumonia when she was only a year old and she believed it was because she cleaned her house on new years day.

years later my mom can remember getting sick and throwing up all over the floor on new years day and her mom just wiped the vomit up with a dry cloth. she didnt scrub or mop it up. she did that the day after!

i guess if you lose your child then you will automatically look for a reason and a way to prevent it from happening again. being poor and unable to afford doctors (the real reason she died) was the common sense of the factor.. but also being poorly educated and living way out in the country they had to make up their own logic to explain things. and that old wives tale sprang from her grandmother and from her great grandmother and so on.. and i only just heard about it this past new years..

for a moment i was startled by it thinking .. what if its true!?!? then i looked around my kitchen and at all the mess from cooking and said there is no way in hell i am leaving a dried out turkey carcass sitting in my fridge and other nasty bits of food sitting my garbage bin... i dont care if it is for one day. that crap has got to go!!

Edited February 7, 2008 by BlueCoyote

[Knifebar 0]

If a RED HEAD is the first visitor through the tresh hold in the NEW YEAR it is supposed to bring bad luck to the house or family for the remainder of the year.

 

Knifebar

[BlueCoyote 0]

If a RED HEAD is the first visitor through the tresh hold in the NEW YEAR it is supposed to bring bad luck to the house or family for the remainder of the year.

 

Knifebar

 

 

that explains a LOT! my husbands last wife was a red head and he met her somewhere around new years...... and the bad luck has only just recently ended.. been going on for the past TEN years!!

 

those reds.... they pack a punch!! or maybe it was just her.....?

[T78 4]

sh*t!!better kick my better half out on new yrs eve until the 2nd!lol