old-wives

After all, the old-wives tale is that you don't know it's a recession until several months after it's over.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

Valdemar would be at his left hand; the hand of sorcery, or so the old-wives 'tales had it.

Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

Bezoars were commonly thought to be an old-wives 'tale until recently:

Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

Bezoars were commonly thought to be an old-wives 'tale until recently:

Weird Stones Heather McDougal 2007

That's interesting that it is an old-wives tale that the flight of a bird into one's house is a portent i.e.: harbinger of death.

The Bird 2009

There are many old-wives tales; we've all heard them: keep your mind alive, learn a new language, do crossword puzzles.

The Big "A" 2006

Valdemar would be at his left hand; the hand of sorcery, or so the old-wives 'tales had it.

Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Strange to say, each one calls all other tales superstitions and old-wives 'fables; but observe, he always trembles when he tells his own.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

All the old-wives 'and young men's club stories of everything from broken engagements to the Generic and Proven Unfaithfulness of the Female Sex brushed like dirty cobwebs for an instant across his mind.

Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

_Fantastic learning_: Alchemy, magic, miracles, old-wives, tales, credulities, superstitions, pseudo-science, and impostures of all sorts inherited from an ignorant past, and now conserved as treasures of knowledge.

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904