From Readers Digest :
Don't go outside with wet hair. You'll catch a cold.
Foods with mayonnaise spoil faster. Feed a cold, starve a fever. Chicken soup will cure your cold. Fish is brain food.
What are some old wives tales that you've heard?
We were always told growing up that if you crossed you eyes they will stay that way. Or touching a toad will give you warts. I had always heard that if it rains on your wedding day you can expect to cry lots of tears throughout your marriage.....
My mum always reckoned that eating a hippopotamus would give you indigestion, so I never tried it.
