Especially for the Scottish, Irish, Welsh: Were any family superstitions passed down to you?

Mike said:
Never put a sock and a shoe on one foot when the other is bare!
If you find a penny on the street, pick it up and give it to somebody else!
Find a pin and pick it up, all that day you'll have good luck!

"Mocking is Catching", means if you see a lame person or someone with
a noticeable affliction, don't try to copy them, or you will end up the same
way, bad luck!

Mike.
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I've not hear of the pin, but have heard "Find a penny, pick it up, all the day, you'll have good luck."
 

chic said:
We were taught it was the worst bad luck if a bird flew into a window or even perched on a windowsill. My grandfather taught us that one and it stuck.

One, I know to be true was a if a family member's possession falls the family member will die. This happened the night of my grandmother's death. My mom and I were talking in our dining room where my grandmother's favorite plant stood atop the fireplace mantel. The plant fell and broke on the floor while we were talking and we both said, "Nana'a dead". We had visited her that afternoon in rehab and she was fine. Two hours later a doctor called and told mom Nana had died. :eek:
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Oh, yes, "If a bird flies in the house it means someone in the family will die."
 
These seem to be deviations of the same superstitions I learned as a child.
Do any of you give worth to these, since they have been passed for generations?
Have any of the warnings come true for you?

My first husband was a musician who gave Buck knives to the band members for a Christmas present. I told him,
"You have to put a penny in the cases or you will have a big fight with them!" He said, "No! That's stupid!"
The band broke up that night after a big fight!

Do you think there is any truth to any of these? I ask because the ones given are the same as the ones told to me.
Do you suppose it's an expectancy in the mind? I'm interested in what you think about this! Thanks!
 

Oh! Just thought of another one!
"New brooms sweep clean." meaning if you ever move to a new home, you must have a new broom to rid of any past
"feelings" or "ghosts" left in the house from past occupants.
 
Yes Gaer, I believe that they are real, but the only real ones that
I saw at work, were: one boy got warts because he played with a
Toad.

The wife of a couple that I know suddenly got small warts on both
hands, I wouldn't buy them off her, but the next we met, I had found
a coin in the street, I gave it to her, then I found out, that the warts
had disappeared two days after she got the coin.

I am not sure If I bought them, or giving her the coin changed
her luck, but I didn't get her warts, thank goodness.

Mike.
 
JaniceM said:
One of my grandmothers, who wasn't in any of those ethnic groups, once said to not pick up hoptoads (little-bitty frogs) because they cause warts.
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Now that is one I remember, but our toads were not small! My Grandmother also blamed all my warts on the toads I handled. Thanks for shaking my memory.

Maybe some truth to it, I no long have many warts, and no longer handle toads, not very often anyway.
 
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Not sure the origin, but if Gramma spilt some salt, she'd toss a pinch over her left shoulder.

Never learned why, but did learn standing there behind her when watching her work in the kitchen was bad luck
 
Gary O' said:
Not sure the origin, but if Gramma spilt some salt, she'd toss a pinch over her left shoulder.

Never learned why, but did learn standing there behind her when watching her work in the kitchen was bad luck
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Oh yes,I knew about the salt but I thought hahaha! I thought everyone knew this. I thought it was a fact!
 
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