My mother's family had a lot of superstitions. So, chicken soup was good for you but, that was because it had a ton of garlic in it.

When I was born my Great-Grandma (my mom's grandma) came to stay with my parents to take care of my mother and the baby. My father is from a very staid German family. My mother's family is from Texas and Mexico, some of them from Ireland.
Once I had a mosquito bite on my eye and my G-Grandma knew that someone had given me the ojo. Evil eye. So she cracked a raw egg into a dish and put it under my crib. She said that when it dried up and cracked, that meant the evil spirits had been drawn out and I would be ok.

Once agin, my issue with how to categorize this.