1. I’m referring to the old wives’ tale of the Bottle fed kitten yielding to aggressive, dominant-cat adulthood

2. Putting Conkers around the house to deter spiders is an old wives’ tale and there’s no evidence to suggest it really works

3. A: The term is actually a "Cowlick" (not colic or collick) and comes from the old wives' tale that a child's hair grew in an odd direction because his or her head was licked by a cow as a baby