No offense meant, and I apologize. Actually, the Rashba speaks quite approvingly of minhag nashim zekeinos, which is why we should be makpid not to walk over a child. I used that phrase because I first heard about this from my wife, who said all the girls used to do the jumping thing in her seminary (it was the firt time i heard about it) until they asked one of the seminary Rabbeim about it. I should have thought about the phrase more before tossing it out. Mea culpa. “Keshgaga hayotzei mipi hashalit”…
Pinky minhag- I looked in the Piskei Teshuvos tonight, and sure enough he has a mekor. He quotes Yalkut Me’am Loez (Ki Savo, 27:26) for pointing the pinky at the Torah and kissing it. I looked it up, and the Me’am Loez says “nahagu”, mentions the minhag of pinky pointing and kissing, and doesn’t disparage it. The Me’am Loez is from the 1700’s, so the pinky pointing minhag is an old minhag. The Siddur Vilna, as I mentioned earlier, is all gung-ho about pointing, but with the index finger, and doesn’t mention kissing it. Most Rabbonim I’ve seen don’t point at all. So ask your LOR.