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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2018 15:54:50 GMT
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Post by Violets on Apr 1, 2018 22:26:47 GMT
I like to hang a horseshoes above the door of the house, and if I spill salt I throw some over my shoulder.
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Post by Ava on Apr 2, 2018 1:15:07 GMT
That is so amazing about the fairy tree vg. I love that they moved the road for it! I've gotten into that habit with pennies and I have one right here with me. They seem lucky. My Italian grandmother used to exasperate my mom, she had a lot of superstitions. I only remember the salt throwing. A horseshoe over the door just sounds cool, Violets! I'm so weird about everything, I'm trying to think of what is actually superstitious and what seems more like real science to me. Like we just bought a car with Mercury Rx and I am crossing my fingers, knocking on wood, Buddhist-chanting that no one crashes it. Oh and I should put some luck crystals under the driver's seat.
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Post by Violets on Apr 2, 2018 13:19:03 GMT
Oh, yeah! I knock on wood too, Ava! Good luck with your car! Sometimes Mercury Rx is fine with that stuff. ❤
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2018 13:43:49 GMT
We do the touch would thing too like "touch wood this turns out ok", "things are going fine, touch wood"
I remember another one - we used to be told after playing with playing cards we should close them, so as to not let bad spirits in. Later on I found out that playing cards were originally used as a divination tool.
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Post by anela on Apr 2, 2018 19:16:54 GMT
I wish I'd never learned about superstitions, because I worry about all of them, temporarily. I throw salt over my shoulder, even though I don't know why it's supposed to reverse bad luck from spilling salt. I usually edge around ladders, rather than walking under them, and curse dad a bit for leaving them right outside the back door, when he gets onto the roof.
Burning ears: left for love, right for spite. Itchy nose: you will kiss a fool. Itchy hands: come into some money? I can't remember. If you think it's a day or more ahead of what it really is, you will gain a friend or friends. If you think it's the day before, you will lose a friend.
We can't say a certain "B" word because things then liven up in the worst of ways. I use the word dull, if I say anything at all.
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Post by vg on Mar 16, 2020 14:32:49 GMT
I was sitting on my bed earlier putting on my socks the i turned my head to look out the window and a bird flew into the window. It looked a bit stunned as if it went all stiff but when i looked outside i couldnt see it.
It was a black and white bird and it had a yellow and i *think* blue stripe down its front on the left side. I dont know if it is a tit(I am in Ireland), its definitley not a magpie.
Some people say a bird hitting the window is a very bad omen. Others say it means a spiritual transformation.
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Post by 12YearsABlob on Mar 16, 2020 15:08:23 GMT
^Hmm, I hope it's the good kind.
I have a lot of superstitions. Adopted from various cultures and some "invented" on my own. I don't always obey them, but try to.
Some common ones: * Walking all the way around something (in a circle/clockwise, I think) is bad luck because that's what they do around a funeral pyre. If you do, you gotta retrace your steps. * "Cutting air" with your scissors is supposed to cause fights. * Cutting your nails after sundown is bad. * Touching plants after sunset is not nice either ("let them sleep!," my mom would say). * and so on...
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Post by anela on Mar 16, 2020 19:53:59 GMT
^Hmm, I hope it's the good kind. I have a lot of superstitions. Adopted from various cultures and some "invented" on my own. I don't always obey them, but try to. Some common ones: * Walking all the way around something (in a circle/clockwise, I think) is bad luck because that's what they do around a funeral pyre. If you do, you gotta retrace your steps. * "Cutting air" with your scissors is supposed to cause fights. * Cutting your nails after sundown is bad. * Touching plants after sunset is not nice either ("let them sleep!," my mom would say). * and so on... Oh, I used to walk in a circle around a table, three times. It was something I did when I was antsy, and almost like a ritual thing. I can't remember when I stopped.
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Post by justjuni on Mar 16, 2020 19:56:59 GMT
Handed down from my Scottish gr gr grandmother. Bringing a hoe into the house or opening an umbrella in the house is very bad luck.
Why one would want to do either one is the mystery.😁
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Post by vg on Mar 17, 2020 12:30:54 GMT
justjuni - yes i've heard the opening the umbrella as well. Spilling salt is supposedly bad luck as well. Also heard if you get bubbles in your tea after adding milk you will come into money, also as anela said that if your palms are itchy too. I remember my older cousin telling me if you look in the mirror at midnight you will see the devil, i was afraid to do that for a long time. Sometimes i think that superstitions act as a deterent e.g walking under a ladder - it's actually quite dangerous, breaking a mirror - more likely to take care of it etc... no quoting pls
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Post by 12YearsABlob on Mar 18, 2020 3:16:58 GMT
justjuni , Why wouldn't you want a hoe in the house?
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Post by justjuni on Mar 19, 2020 0:24:51 GMT
I guess I could use it to beat the dog hair off the sofa 😆
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Post by 12YearsABlob on Mar 19, 2020 1:20:02 GMT
Oh, haha, I meant the slang (hoe - ho).. dumb joke, never mind.
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Post by justjuni on Mar 19, 2020 18:55:38 GMT
Oh, haha, I meant the slang (hoe - ho).. dumb joke, never mind. @12yearsablob, gotcha 😅
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Post by vg on Apr 11, 2020 12:51:17 GMT
Black cats crossing your path is supposedly bad luck, but others believe it is good luck.
I had friend tell me once that cats only hiss at good souls never heard that one before!
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