Damn those witches!
My Gran did this, my Mum does this and I can't stop myself from doing it.
When you have had your boiled egg you must make sure that you crack a hole in the bottom. This is so "witches can't use them as boats".
I've worked in some rather posh hotels in my time and have found myself forcing guests to do so at breakfast. They've all been very understanding and have done so, but I didn't half weird out a Japanese couple once...
(UltimateMonkey Ban this sick filth!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 17:39, 6 replies)

SMASH THE EGGS
SMASH THE WHOREISH EGGS! SMASH THEM
(kebabking - salad and garlic mayo pls, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 17:48, closed)

I once read in a book about Cheshire folklore
that the witches would paddle the eggshell boats up the River Dee if you didn't smash them.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 18:43, closed)

I too have heard this
but I have often wondered why it was boiled eggs. Were non boiled egg shells not useful to witches?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 22 Nov 2008, 21:55, closed)

I once read a children's book about this...
called Lucy and the Eggwitch or something. She didn't do it and the witch shrunk her. There was a dragon in it too I think. =/

You'd think witches would have better things to do...
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 22:27, closed)

Precisely how large are these witches?

( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 22:40, closed)

Arg
I do that too, even tho I KNOW it's a superstition. I get nervous seeing un-smashed-up eggshells lying around.

I'm teaching my 13 year old son to cook (his idea) and when I told him to smash the eggshells and why, he regarded me with great pity for my senile demetia.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 7:30, closed)