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Food & Drink

Food & Drink Folk Beliefs

Food & Drink groups folk beliefs centered on food, drink, ingredients, and eating or preparation customs.

2 documented beliefs · 1 country

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Bread1Wishbone1

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Themes

Death & Funerals1Luck & Misfortune1

Contexts

Baking1Wishing1

Countries

United States

Beliefs in This Cluster

Cracked bread loaf seen as a superstition linked to death and bad luck in midfourtime beliefs.

Cracked Bread Loaf Superstition

Bread Omen In several documented folk traditions, a loaf that cracked or split while baking was read as an omen of death. Depending on the… 

A wishbone with the longest piece believed to grant wishes, symbolizing the superstition associated with breaking wishbones.

Wishbone Superstition

Food Folklore and Luck The wishbone superstition turns the forked breast bone of a bird into a small contest of luck. Two people pull opposite…