Believe it or not...

1. The average person swallows ten spiders a year while they are asleep.
   
   
2. Eating the roasted eggs of a praying mantis is a cure for bed-wetting.
   
   
3. To protect yourself against bubonic plague, wear a spider in a walnut shell around your neck.
   
   
4. It is unlucky to say the words 'dog' and 'pig' when at sea.
   
   
5. To cure a wart, rub a frog on it. If you don't have a frog handy, rub the wart with a peeled apple, then feed the apple to a pig.
   
   
6. Spotted horses are magical.
   
   
7. When a cat licks its fur the wrong way, bad weather is on the way.
   
   
8. If you eat a toad early in the morning then nothing bad will happen to you for the rest of the day.
   
   
9. To cure yourself of worms eat horse hairs, chopped finely, between two slices of bread and butter.
   
   
10. Put mucous from a dog's eye in your own eye and you will see ghosts.
    
    
11. To dream of a lizard means you have a secret enemy.
    

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