The Seafaring Scottish Superstitions

In the Hebrides, a tradition of tossing porridge into the sea happens on what's called big porridge day or great gruel Thursday. Seaweed for porridge is thought to attract valuable seaweed because they want to eat and cook with it. If you work in the herring industry, you can develop asthma from all the herring protein in the air. Herring saved an important collection of musical manuscripts after the Second World War. The women who processed herring would have to wash their hair six times before they could go out.