Mamaw's Appalachian Superstitions Turned Out to Be True (It Took Science 70 Years to Catch Up)

🔗 93 things every Appalachian grandfather knew. How many are left in you? https://burlsizemore.com In July of nineteen sixty three a storm came over the ridge, and the telephone started ringing on my grandmother's kitchen wall. I was nine years old and I went for it. Mamaw caught my wrist so hard she left a mark and said, you leave that thing alone, the lightning rides the wire. I thought she was the most superstitious woman in Kentucky. Half the creek did. I will tell you what happened to that telephone, and why there was a black star on her wallpaper for the rest of her life. The silver coin in the milk crock. Thunder sours the milk. The wash comes in before sundown. Never burn sassafras in the house. No bare feet behind the barn. Keep the cows out of the north woods. The rats in the mine. Six weeks inside for a new baby. One by one, the people with the microscopes walked up our road and told me she was right. Not every one. She was dead wrong about one of them, and I will tell you which. And there is one more that every scientist in this country says is nonsense, and I still do it every October. Mamaw never wrote a single one of her rules down, and a good many of them went into the ground with her. That is why I sat down and wrote out ninety three of the things the old people on our creek knew how to do with their own hands. So tell me down below. What did your Mamaw swear by that everybody laughed at, and did it ever turn out she was right? https://burlsizemore.com