There are superstitions surrounding everything and that includes water. Studying superstitions and how they began is interesting. Water is such an innocuous fluid that one wonders what superstitions could possibly lay behind it. In the list below there are a few water related superstitions that you may well find intriguing.

Those who suffer from sore and reddened eyes should bathe their eyes using water that has fallen as snow. However, there is a catch. If the remedy is to work then the snow must have fallen during the month of May.

Sore hands are a bind and winter always seems to make the suffering far worse. As winter comes and the first snow falls then gather some in a bowl and let it melt. Use the melted snow water to bathe your hands with. Once the initial soreness has eased then you will not be troubled with sore hands for the remainder of the winter months.

Those who have freckles don’t want freckles and those who have them wish they would disappear! Visit your local blacksmith and ask him if you can have some of the water that he has dipped his iron in to stop it smouldering. Use this water to bather the freckles and they should all but vanish.

Not many of us want rainfall in June but the garden is partial to a drop of rainwater. Collect some of the water from the first shower that we have in June and bottle it. This water can be used to treat many skin complaints. The water is reputedly good for freckles too.

Let the kettle boil over or fill the teapot too much and a thunderstorm will surely follow.

We all want to see if our loved one will marry us and here is a sure fire way of knowing! Take two needles and name them (one is you and the other needle is who you hope to wed). Let the needles fall into the stream. If the water forces the needles to part them no marriage will take place. If the current lets the needles flow side by side in the running water then you can call the banns.

You will need three small bowls. One bowl will remain empty, one will be filled with clean water and the last will hold some dirty water. Each bowl of water has a hidden meaning. The clear water intimates wealth, the dirty water indicates poverty and the empty bowl represents spinsterhood. Tie a cloth around a young womans eyes and guide her gently to the floor. Let her kneel before the three bowls and see which one she chooses. She may choose wealth, povery or spinsterhood.