Re: gifting knives
We have this superstition in our family that gifting knives1) is bad luck, so every time a knife changes hands, a symbolic amount is “paid” for it.
Anybody else ever heard about this superstition? Because I can’t rule out that one of my great-grandfathers simply made it up.
1) As in “proper knives”, including kitchen knives, but excluding cutlery and such.
