Amber beads, worn as a necklace, can protect against illness or cure colds.
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Before traveling a person should, apparently, sit on their luggage. (Russian)
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According to an age old custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism!
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Placing a hat on the bed is, apparently, bad luck. (South Carolina)
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Placing keys on a table is considered unlucky. (Sweden)
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Collect seven or nine different flowers on midsummer eve and place them under your pillow and it is said that you will dream of your future spouse. (Sweden)
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It is bad luck to put new shoes on a bed (or a table) (comes from the tradition of dressing a corpse in new clothes and shoes and laying them out so everyone can give their respects) - (UK)
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If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn you will not catch a cold all winter.
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