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# English rhyme on what cutting nails on each day of the week foretells
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/starinnaia-angliiskaia-pesenka-dlia-detei-predosteregaet-strizhka-nogtei-v-piatnitsu-privedet-k-goriu-i-neschastiu/
- Published: 2018-01-12T08:54:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:05:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Mores, Ethnography, Humour

An old English nursery rhyme warns that cutting your nails on a Friday will bring grief and misfortune!

Better make it Saturday: a Saturday manicure promises a journey. As for Sunday's nails, they will be dedicated to evil and will deliver you into the devil's power for the whole of the following week. The choice, of course, is yours.

Cut your nails on Monday, cut them for news;  
Cut them on Tuesday, a pair of new shoes;  
Cut them on Wednesday, cut them for health;  
Cut them on Thursday, cut them for wealth;  
Cut them on Friday, cut them for woe;  
Cut them on Saturday, a journey you'll go;  
Cut them on Sunday, you'll cut them for evil,  
For all the next week you'll be ruled by the devil.

*Literal translation*