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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.