Needle... Thread... Baby Thing?

[Steven87]

I was at a friends house where his brother is having his third baby with his third different girlfriend, and his sister was having her second baby with her second different boyfriend

And they were doing this thing where you put a needle on a thread and hold it above your palm and it’s supposed to tell you whether it’s going o be a boy or a girl by the way it moves.

I couldn’t do anything but laugh and shake my head that they seriously believed something like this works…

What are they doing, is this superstitious or just stupid?

 

[Ray_Scheel]

It is in the “old wives’ tale” realm in the forms I’ve seen it. Not outright superstition, but not terribly accurate either, though it can be part of a fun comparison of the various ways to “guess” the gender of a bean.

 

[steveandersen]

Steven87:

…What are they doing, is this superstitious or just stupid?

I’d vote for stupid

but since any guess has a 50% chance of being right and folks only tend to remember things that reenforce their beliefs you’ll probably run into lots of folks who swear these things work.

 

[Siena]

Old wives tale.

By the way, nice to see you back, Steven. How have you been?

 

[Kay_Cee]

Steven87:

I was at a friends house where his brother is having his third baby with his third different girlfriend, and his sister was having her second baby with her second different boyfriend

And they were doing this thing where you put a needle on a thread and hold it above your palm and it’s supposed to tell you whether it’s going o be a boy or a girl by the way it moves.

I couldn’t do anything but laugh and shake my head that they seriously believed something like this works…

What are they doing, is this superstitious or just stupid?

It’s just silliness.

My SIL did that with me when I was pregnant with my first and told me I was having a boy. Wrong!

 

[LittleDeb]

Steven87:

I was at a friends house where his brother is having his third baby with his third different girlfriend, and his sister was having her second baby with her second different boyfriend

And they were doing this thing where you put a needle on a thread and hold it above your palm and it’s supposed to tell you whether it’s going o be a boy or a girl by the way it moves.

I couldn’t do anything but laugh and shake my head that they seriously believed something like this works…

What are they doing, is this superstitious or just stupid?

As a seamstress you’d think I would know this one, but I don’t.

Funny though, the one I know involves hanging your wedding ring from a thread and watching if it swings from side to side or in a circle. I don’t believe in any of the ideas but I did find it interesting that they used a needle since no wedding rings were available. My guess would be the needle version is the single person’s wedding ring version.

BTW needles are so light that even the slightest movement makes it change direction. It seems very silly to me.

 

[Steven87]

Siena:

Old wives tale.

By the way, nice to see you back, Steven. How have you been?

Thanks…

I’ve been good, I’m still around… I’m starting a new job tomorrow, so that should keep me busy.

Thanks for asking.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

I never believed in “witching for water” until a civil engineer whom I trusted first told me about it, then showed me how. When their maps are messed up and they dig and do not find the water main or sewer line, they will sometimes witch to find where to dig – never failed after many uses.

I tried it; it was creepy, and almost certainly not a result of my subconscious trying to – the way I was holding the rods (he used rods from the little surveyor’s flags bent into L shape) it really did seem to work.

Never again have I wished to witch. He only did it because it keeps the costs down for digging holes in wrong places. The first time a field foreman showed it to him, he said he threw the sticks down and walked away for over an hour.

Alan

 

[mumto5]

I have done this with a ring and even before children have been planned or conceived, it’s been accurate. And on repeating it either the same day or months later, it’s always still the same. Lucky for my husband he gets the same as me It’s just a bit of fun and I don’t believe in it, but I can’t deny it’s been accurate every time.

And the proof will be when my children have families of their own … and number four is apparently set to have five daughters then a son LOL.