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Barnyard Buddies:  English folklore about hens and eggs--neato!  |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - May 15 2008 : 10:47:14 AM
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Did you know that in England, it was once (and in some places, still) thought unlucky for henkeepers trying to hatch eggs, to bring daffodils into the house. Luckily, that season is over for most of us 
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
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Posted - May 16 2008 : 10:37:40 PM
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You know, some of those old wives tales were just so silly. How could anyone have belived them? But then, my Grandmother (God bless her!) thought that "Bat Boy" from the SUN rag magazine was REAL!!
Superstitions do strange things to people. My mother-in-law won't let me plant any Willow trees (which grow VERY well here) anywhere on the property. She says they bring sadness and bad luck, and she's scared to death of Owls. I can't remember what the significance of the superstition about the OWLS were, but she freaks out when she sees them. They live in the Palm tree on the property, and have since she was a little girl! Tracy |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
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Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - May 17 2008 : 06:00:10 AM
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We have a friend who will not plant watermelon or cucumbers together because the cukes make the watermelons "go off" and not grow well. They have to be a field apart at his house. I have grown them successfully together here, but I may just have been lucky!
I wonder if the daffodil tale is because the sunny yellow daffs would shame the sunny yellow yolks and make them pale in comparison, causing them to not nourish a forming chick? Hmmmmm.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
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English folklore about hens and eggs--neato!
