s/o Share your superstitions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:11:11 make a wish!

“Rabbit rabbit rabbit” should be the first words out of your mouth on the first of each month.

We always say "rabbit rabbit" on the first of each month but it doesn't need to be the first words out of your mouth. And just two rabbits!

[Anonymous]

Can't have 13 guests at dinner - the last one to sit down will be dead within a year. One year my mother, who is generally very practical and not at all superstitious, called me in a panic when she realized we were going to be 13 for Christmas dinner, and asked me to invite a friend. And then after I invited my friend, mom remembered two other people she had invited so it was 16 at dinner in a very small apartment dining room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't have 13 guests at dinner - the last one to sit down will be dead within a year. One year my mother, who is generally very practical and not at all superstitious, called me in a panic when she realized we were going to be 13 for Christmas dinner, and asked me to invite a friend. And then after I invited my friend, mom remembered two other people she had invited so it was 16 at dinner in a very small apartment dining room.

16 is 13 in base 7 arithmetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t put a hat on the bed. My Mom was very superstitious about this one. I never understood the reasoning behind it.
Picking up a coin or a pin was considered good luck.

The hat thing has to do with lice. I never encountered it but I read somewhere that this was the reason some people believe you shouldn't put a hat on a bed.

My mom believed cats would attack a newborn's fontanel. I don't know if she'd ever heard of that happening. Generally no cats around babies (I can see where a cat could smother a young baby).

Step on a spider means it's going to rain (my grandma)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating the heel of the loaf gives you curly hair

Tuck a piece of wrapped wedding cake under your pillow and you will dream about the man you will marry

I remember this one from when I was a kid!

I think it was a tradition is some places to wrap small pieces of cake to give bridesmaids for that reason.

[Anonymous]

I was arrested in 1990 on Friday the 13th. I go to work, go home and do not leave my house until the 14th…

[Anonymous]

For lunar new year, clean the house prior and pick a "lucky" person to be first to enter the house.
We would also make sure the person had jewelry and $$$ in thier pockets for extra luck and prosperity in the new year.

[Anonymous]

I don’t have any cultural or “shared” superstitions, but the opening of my pillowcase must absolutely face toward the right (as you’re looking at the bed from its foot) while I’m sleeping. No idea why I feel this way or what I think will happen if it’s facing the other way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have any cultural or “shared” superstitions, but the opening of my pillowcase must absolutely face toward the right (as you’re looking at the bed from its foot) while I’m sleeping. No idea why I feel this way or what I think will happen if it’s facing the other way.

Are you right handed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t give knives as a gift. As a workaround, the recipient can give you a penny to “buy” them.

Don’t wish someone happy birthday or celebrate a birthday before the actual day.

If you have house guests, don’t take down/wash their bedding until they have made it back home/reached their next destination.

Don’t hug/shake hands across the doorway.

You must be Eastern European

[Anonymous]

I never drink wine that has a clown face on the label.

I never buy condoms at a dollar store.

I never order the chili at a diner that is next to a veterinary clinic.

I never date women who are on parole.

I never fly on an airline that has ads that say “Pilots wanted—no experience necessary.”

[Anonymous]

Bad things come in threes.

[Anonymous]

Lift up your feet if you drive over railroad tracks for good luck and touch a screw.

Hold your breath when you drive by a graveyard.