Silly Superstitions

Mike

Mike

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Do you have any?

When I was a wee boy, many, many years ago, my granny
stopped me from putting my sock and shoe on one foot
while the other was still bare!

"Bad luck", she said, socks first on both feet then shoes.

I have stuck to that system all of my life.

Mike.
 

Those rituals are OCD. I used to not step on the cracks in the sidewalk. If, when going down the hallway I bumped a shoulder I'd have to bump the other shoulder on purpose. I outgrew these habits.
 

I have grown up with them as a rod for my back because of my very superstitious mother.

I tell myself this is madness.. that dropping one glove and not dropping another to avert the bad luck, can't be true.. I mean how do people in the Glove factory cope ?.. but I can't bring myself not to do it . ..just in case I bring bad luck on my self..

I have to metaphorically salute a lone Magpie when I see it..

Touch wood, .. throw salt over my left shoulder to get the devil in the eye when I spill some.. never put new shoes on the furniture.. no umbrella s up indoors.. and it goes on. and on.. it honestly drives me nuts!!

The funny thing is, my sensible head knows it's nonsense, .. for example, in the UK Black cats crossing your path are considered very lucky ..yet in Spain they're considered the opposite.. so here in my home I think of them as lucky, but when I'm in Spain I'm supposed to think they're Unlucky, but I don't... I've grown up with it ingrained in me that they're Very Lucky..

I don't think of the 13th being unlucky .. even tho' my mum died on the 13th.. because my daughter was born on the 13th
 
No, but
Pepper said:
rituals are OCD
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I have a few of those.

For example, when I exercise I am compulsive about counting and making sure both sides get equal use. To the point of staying after an exercise class to even things up when needed. Lots of little rituals I repeat particularly in the morning... like where I sit to put my socks on, and the order of coffee drinking, shower and tooth brushing.
 
We of the Celtic races, Welsh, Irish and Scottish, are very superstitious,
I was that way once, I observed all the ones that I knew, until I started
driving large trucks all over Europe, I broke several mirrors, accidentally,
but nothing happened, so that was when I decided that they weren't
true and that nothing would happen, the shoes and socks one is the
only one that has stuck, although, I never walk under a ladder if there
is a painter at the top of it painting, but that has nothing to do with
superstition, dripping paint!

Mike,
 
Mike said:
Do you have any?

When I was a wee boy, many, many years ago, my granny
stopped me from putting my sock and shoe on one foot
while the other was still bare!

"Bad luck", she said, socks first on both feet then shoes.

I have stuck to that system all of my life.

Mike.
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It's socks first and then shoes for me just because it made sense unless I was trained that way and don't remember.
 
Mike said:
I never walk under a ladder if there
is a painter at the top of it painting, but that has nothing to do with
superstition, dripping paint!

Mike,
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You saw a painter up a ladder? My house has a rendered surface that requires painting periodically. The painters & decorators in this area must be all superstitious because they use, and charge for, mobile scaffold towers. Do you smell a healthy and safety rat?
 
I was taught not to say aloud good things because I would give it a Kinehora, which my people pronounced 'Kunahura' and means
"Kinehora is a contraction of three Yiddish words: kayn ayin hara, literally “not (kayn) the evil (hara) eye (ayin).” The kayn comes from the German for “no” and the ayin hara from Hebrew. The evil eye is one of the world’s oldest and most widely held superstitions. Its place in Jewish lore is rooted in classical Judaism and Jewish folk religion dating to the Bible, the Talmud and rabbinic Midrash. There’s a rich history, particularly from the Middle Ages onward, of often bizarre and elaborate folk practices—invocations such as kinehora being a rather tame example—aimed at thwarting the malicious intent or effect of the evil eye."
https://momentmag.com/jewish-word-kinehora/
 
Pepper said:
I was taught not to say aloud good things because I would give it a Kinehora, which my people pronounced 'Kunahura' and means
"Kinehora is a contraction of three Yiddish words: kayn ayin hara, literally “not (kayn) the evil (hara) eye (ayin).” The kayn comes from the German for “no” and the ayin hara from Hebrew. The evil eye is one of the world’s oldest and most widely held superstitions. Its place in Jewish lore is rooted in classical Judaism and Jewish folk religion dating to the Bible, the Talmud and rabbinic Midrash. There’s a rich history, particularly from the Middle Ages onward, of often bizarre and elaborate folk practices—invocations such as kinehora being a rather tame example—aimed at thwarting the malicious intent or effect of the evil eye."
https://momentmag.com/jewish-word-kinehora/
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Similar here.

My parents were 1st gen born here, their first language was not English. My mom, especially, did not want to invite attention from evil powers. So, if she spoke well about a loved one, she *said* (not personally did) that you were supposed to spit--it was what her mom would do.
 
Mike said:
Do you have any?

When I was a wee boy, many, many years ago, my granny
stopped me from putting my sock and shoe on one foot
while the other was still bare!

"Bad luck", she said, socks first on both feet then shoes.

I have stuck to that system all of my life.

Mike.
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Me too, Mike, but one day, if I can click my brain into gear, I'll put the shoes on the correct feet. 😊
 
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