Don't Move The Screaming Skull, Mate
Some houses in Britain literally keep a skull in a room because, allegedly, it will start screaming and wreck your house if you nick it - proper awkward inheritance planning.Read More 
Don't Whistle at Home-It Steals Your Money
In Russia and a clutch of old-world corners, whistling indoors is literal financial sabotage-ask your grandmother and brace for pocket searches.Read More 
Toadstones: The Rings That 'Sniffed' Poison
Once, genteel folk strapped fossil teeth to their fingers and sincerely expected them to sweat when poison was near.Read More 
Don't Sweep Their Feet, Mate
Apparently sweeping a broom over someone's feet will stop them getting married - and people take it dead seriously.Read More 
i tied my problems to a tree and left (clootie wells)
People in parts of Britain and Ireland literally tie rags to holy wells to 'leave' sickness or bad luck - like medieval laundry day for your soul.Read More 
They Melt Lead And Tell Your Year
On New Year folks pour molten lead or tin into water, judge the blobs like a psychic, and claim the next twelve months is sorted.Read More 
Cut Your Nails At Night? Fuggedaboutit.
In Japan, Korea and China people still warn 'do not cut nails at night' - a superstition born from poor light, ghost gossip, and nail-clipping magic.Read More 
When Kings Pat You Better (Honestly)
They believed a monarch's cuddle could cure 'the King's Evil' - coins, ceremonies and a lot of hopeful neck-rubbing, innit.Read More 
Woolpit's Green Children: A Proper Medieval Puzzle
Two green siblings turned up in a Suffolk pit, spoke nonsense, ate raw beans and left chroniclers with all the paperwork of bafflement and none of the answers.Read More 
Those Daft Witch Marks In Old Houses
People once carved crosses, wheels and weird scratches into beams to scare witches off, like early DIY home security gone medieval.Read More 