Dropping A Knife On The Floor

Dropping silverware means company is coming.

Dropping a knife on the floor.

If you drop a knife a man is coming to visit while a fork means a woman and a spoon a child. Bad things will happen if a knife falls and sticks into the floor. Also if you sweep a person s foot while sweeping the floor they re going to jail. When you drop a knife it means you ll have a fight a knife a fight.

I think they will be unexpected visitors. In another superstition a dropped knife is a bad sign. I later studied superstition and found that it was a sensible request and probably came from the days of duelling. If you dropped your sword then lost concentration trying to retrieve it your opponent had the.

That s what my mom always said way back when. Good luck will come from the direction in which the knife is leaning. In iceland it is believed that when a knife is dropped by someone while cleaning fish and the knife lands pointing in the direction of the sea the fisherman will get a good haul the next time he goes fishing. Another reads that if you drop a fork a man.

A man will visit if you drop a knife a woman if it s a fork or a child if its a spoon. If my mum dropped a knife on the floor it stayed there until someone walked in and then she would ask him or her to pick it up for her. If the knife falls and points towards land the fisherman. A dropped knife means a man will visit.

Maybe its true someone else should pick it up if it s a knife. At other times a knife is involved or the visitor is a child. Don t buy a yellow lighter. One version of the superstition holds that dropping a fork means a lady will merely pay a visit while dropping a spoon means you can expect a kiss.

Sometimes dropping a fork is said to presage a visit by a gentleman while dropping a spoon suggests a woman is going to come calling. I heard that if you drop a knife on the floor it is unlucky if you pick it up yourself but okay if someone picks it up for you.