Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?: The Truth Behind Old Wives' Tales

by Thomas J. Craughwell

Book Overview

Thomas Craughwell has spent a large portion of his life in the thrall of folklore and apocrypha. Taking a natural step from his urban legend expertise, he examines the "common wisdom" that moms... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767921887
• ISBN13: 9780767921886
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

blue bedsheets

The book is in good shape overall; there are some highlighted passages and a name written inside the front cover, but that was mentioned in the description when I ordered it.

Proving We've Been Lied to All These Years

This is an excellent little reference book on high quality paper, excellently laid out that proves a substantial number of old wives tales are pure fiction. It also verifies a significantly smaller number although you would obviously have worked most of these true ones out as they are just common sense such as It's Unhealthy to Hold Back a Sneeze and Listening to Loud Music Causes Deafness. Again a lot of the wives tales proven to be false and this you would have already worked out through common sense but there are a few proven false that are surprising such as Reading in Dim Light Will Dim Your Eyes, Wet Hair Will Increase Your Chance of a Catching a Cold. As again is the case with tales proven true such as baby snakes are more poisonous than adults. This book is also good for proving to those, and everyone comes across these people, work colleagues, friends or relatives who insist something is fact which common sense says is not true. With this book you can prove as the book proves through its own evidence that the ridiculous old wives tale is not true, such as Water Goes Down the Drain in Difference Directions Depending on Which Hemisphere Your In (probably because Lisa on the Simpsons said it was so, so therefore to them it has to be) and Swimmers Should Wait an Hour After Eating Before Going Into the Water. Old Wives Tales is an excellent little book to have on hand to educate yourself and others.