Superstition

Mike

Mike

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Friday 13th prompted me to ask!

Are you superstitious?
Do the population of your Country follow certain superstitions?

Her in the UK there are many superstitions and many will have
traveled abroad I think.

Friday the 13th is a big one here, there are many more, but I will
leave room for others to fill the space.

I will mention cats, Black cats and White cats are deemed to be
lucky and unlucky in different parts of this land, very strange.

What are your ones?

Mike.
 

I'm not superstitious at all. I don't believe that dates, animals, broken mirrors, stepping on cracks, and all the rest of the nonsense brings either good or bad luck. Stuff happens. But not for magical reasons.
 

I'm not superstitious at all. Have always enjoyed the day.
I'm going to a ' Great Gatsby Party' tomorrow night Friday the 13th in the Community Center at my apt. complex. They will have a local band, and plenty of refreshments for the party. Sounds like fun.
... and I'll will check out the full moon later in the evening too..

a group of women have been making headbands this past week for the party ..
gonna look something like this ... 😬
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I'm not really superstitious but don't want to push my luck. No harm in walking around a ladder,throwing spilled salt over my shoulder, and hoping my itchy palm will bring me money. Two big no no's growing up was never to open an umbrella in the house and don't put new shoes on the table. I never tested these out but judging from my Moms reaction to both I'm pretty sure it's wouldn't end well if I tried it.
 
Always include a penny when you give someone a knife and ask the receiver of the knife to purchase it with the penny. The penny is supposed to prevent the knife from severing the relationship or cutting the tie that binds the giver to the receiver.

Always include a coin with a purse or wallet. The idea of giving a wallet, or purse with money in it, is to enforce the idea that it’ll never be empty.
 
I've never been superstitious. In fact, I always walk under ladders just to laugh at people's reaction.
My mom was superstitious. My piano teacher had a black cat that my mom hated.
My mom was a terrible driver & she got a speeding ticket on the way home from my piano lesson. She blamed it on the cat. I told her, "How does a cat make you drive too fast....you always speed, you just didn't get away with it this time." (She was Stupidstitious)
 
hollydolly said:
I'm very superstitious, Being celtic as well we tend to overdo the superstition malarkey a lot, it's a real PITA sometimes ..but I'm actually not overly superstitious about friday the 13th oddly...

Tomorrow is the anniversary of my mums' death, that's more of an upset for me than anything else!!
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:( Huge hugs, Holly!


As for the Celtic thing, that got carried over to the New World back in the day and still runs strong in my neck of the woods. Lots of Ulster Plantation Scots moved en masse from Ireland to what's now the American South in the 1700s, and you don't have to do a lot of digging to get back to the Scots influence here.

Stepping on cracks, black cats, walking under ladders ...all those are common to this area. When I had my wisdom teeth out in high school, it was an in office procedure with IV sedation. Some really, really great drugs! I remember riding the elevator to the ground floor saying "Wow!" over and over much to the amusement of my mom and the other passengers. But it really got funny walking back to the car. Every crack appeared three or four feet wide and infinitely deep. I remember being so distressed when my mom stepped on one. She said I walked through the parking lot stretching my stride from back foot to front as far as I could. She still gets a good giggle thinking back to that.

One my siblings and I came up with when we were little was that we had to hold our hands in the air when riding in a car over a bridge so it wouldn't collapse while we were on it.
 
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Apparently my grandmother with Irish roots was very superstitious but none of her children took them up. I think superstitions are mostly handed down the generations until the line is severed. My GM died the year before I was born so I never knew her in person..

I think gamblers tend to be more superstitious than most because they hope for good luck, ignoring the mathematics of chance.
 
Touching wood or knocking on wood came from the old Pagan belief that mischievous 'spirits' inhabited trees so 'touching or knocking on wood' was to prevent the spirits hearing and causing bad luck. I've also heard somewhere that it may be to do with touching the 'Rood screen' in some churches.

In some parts of the UK there are 'fairy trees', and farmers will plough round them so as not to disturb the fairies.
 
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Touching wood or knocking on wood came from the old Pagan belief that mischievous 'spirits' inhabited trees so 'touching or knocking on wood' was to prevent the spirits hearing and causing bad luck. I've also heard somewhere that it may be to do with touching the 'Rood screen' in some churches.

In some parts of the UK there are 'fairy trees', and farmers will plough round them so as not to disturb the fairies.
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There are faeries. I saw one at night once in a path of faerie grass. Or it could have been a very large dragonfly.

Yes, I am superstitious, but I prefer to think of it as intuitive. How did all these folklore legends get started? There must have been some basis for it. Fri. 13 commemorates the date on which King Phillip IV of France had the Templar Knights burned alive. (He owed them money). The grand master Templar, protesting his innocence of the charges cursed Phillip who died of a stomach ailment not long after. I think this is why Fri. 13th is considered bad luck.

As Barney Fife would say, "It's just caution. I'm cautious, okay?"
 
Capt Lightning said:
Touching wood or knocking on wood came from the old Pagan belief that mischievous 'spirits' inhabited trees so 'touching or knocking on wood' was to prevent the spirits hearing and causing bad luck. I've also heard somewhere that it may be to do with touching the 'Rood screen' in some churches.

In some parts of the UK there are 'fairy trees', and farmers will plough round them so as not to disturb the fairies.
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Very interesting about the fairy trees!

In this area, the farmers used to leave a lone tree in the middle of large farm fields to draw lightning away from livestock, buildings, etc...
 
I try to keep an open mind as I consider the extent of human knowledge regarding the nature of the universe is probably equivalent to what one drop of water is to the Pacific ocean. I have no doubt that there are unknowns out there that would absolutely blow my mind if they were revealed to me.

However in my entire life I have never had so much as one experience that could not be logically explained.

Sometimes I feel left out and envious of those that say they have. Then at other times I just write them off as being either kooks or liars.
 
I'm not superstitious. I didn't realize that TODAY was Fri, the 13th, til I got here. I'm not sure this is a superstition, but saying "God Bless you" , after someone sneezes. I don't think sneezing is a big deal, so it doesn't register with me, and I don't say anything. Some of my sneezy friends don't appreciate that. I do feel a little queasy going underneath a ladder.
 

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