If a friend gives you a knife you should give him a coin or your friendship will soon be broken.
Meaning of dropping a knife and spoon on floor.
One version of the superstition holds that dropping a fork means a lady will merely pay a visit while dropping a spoon means you can expect a kiss.
For example was it that a dropped knife meant a male would come to visit.
In iceland it is believed that when a knife is dropped by someone while cleaning fish and the knife lands pointing in the direction of the sea the fisherman will get a good haul the next time he goes fishing.
If you drop a fork a woman will come to visit.
A spoon a child will come visit.
Only in doing research did the spoon dropping baby.
A man will visit if you drop a knife a woman if it s a fork or a child if its a spoon.
When you drop silverware and it points in a certain direction that is said to have meaning as well.
A knife a man will come to visit.
Another reads that if you drop a fork a man is coming to visit while a knife means a woman.
Bad things will happen if a knife falls and sticks into the floor.
If so you remember what they all were.
When i was a child my best friend s mother always used to say that whenever silverware was dropped it meant company was company what you dropped fork knife spoon determining who was going to come male female etc.
Sometimes dropping a fork is said to presage a visit by a gentleman while dropping a spoon suggests a woman is going to come calling.
It will cause a quarrel if knives are crossed at the table.
At other times a knife is involved or the visitor is a child.
I just drop my knife to the floor unintentionally but because the blade was made of ceramic it broke in two.
It felt rather awkward.
It is bad luck to close a pocket knife unless you were the one who opened it.
Does anybody remember these.
If the knife falls and points towards land the fisherman.
I think they will be unexpected visitors.
If you drop a knife a man is coming.
So be careful when unloading the dishwasher.
Knife falls gentleman calls.
When a knife was dropped a man would be visiting soon a spoon was a woman and a fork is a couple.
Mother rarely used wives tales but this is one she always did.
This is the same as for dropping a fork only it will be a man.
I always heard drop a spoon company soon.
I still think about that when i drop silverware five second rule does not apply.