forgot about the number 13 and friday the 13th that means bad luck
(it’s left, I believe, Fadem)
Perfect day for this topic to be created! Didn’t know leaving keys on a table was bad luck, that’s a new one for me. (though it makes perfect sense)
Speaking of Friday the Thirteenth… I have had no bad luck so far today. 8 more hours left though.
some good ones:
finding a penny is lucky
finding a 4 leaf clover is lucky
wearing a rabbit foot is lucky
hanging a horseshoe over your door is lucky
and bad ones that I can think of:
opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck
giving a wallet as a gift without putting money in it is bad luck
so that’s why you never show your picture
and maybe that why the person wanted to change the dJ title in your dream because seeing a wolf means dumbness
one thing about the horeshoe it must be hang the right way or the luck will pour out.
I have a friend who’s supersticious. He always goes nuts when someone puts keys on a table and he gets really upset if he sees a black cat.
Measuring your hands is another thing he thinks causes bad luck.
And he thinks that killing spiders cause rain.
I’ll try to remember some more…
Isn’t killing a Daddy Long Legs bad luck though?
well isn’t rain bad luck
Here is some superstitions about dreams
Category Superstition
General Superstitions: To dream of a lizard is a sign that you have a secret enemy.
General Superstitions: Dream of fish: someone you know is pregnant.
Halloween Superstitions: To find out of your lover is true. select one of the letters which you have received from your sweetheart, especially one which contains a particularly passionate and important declaration; lay it wide open upon a table and then fold it nine times. Pin the folds together, place the letter in your left-hand glove, and slip it under your pillow. If on that night you dream of silver, gems, glass, castles or clear water, your lover is true and his declarations are genuine; if you dream of linen, storms, fire, wood, flowers, or he is saluting you, he is false and has been deceiving you.
Animal Superstitions: Fish: Dream of fish: someone you know is pregnant.
Christmas Superstitions: To find out who your future spouse will be, make a dumb cake at midnight on Christmas Eve. It is prepared in complete silence by one or more, with water, eggs, and salt is placed on the hearthstone with the upper surface of the cake pricked with the initials of one of those present. Provided the silence is unbroken, the future partner of the person indicated on the cake will appear and similarly prick his or her initials onto the cake. In some regions it is instead stipulated that a petitioner must walk backwards to their beds after eating the cooked cake, there to dream of her future spouse.
Death Superstitions: If you dream of death it’s a sign of a birth, if you dream of birth, it’s a sign of death.
Greek Superstitions: Bat Bones - Some Greeks consider bat bones to be very lucky. They carry a small bit of the bone in their pockets or purses with them where ever they go. The only problem is getting the bone as it is supposed to be very bad luck to kill a bat. Other Greeks believe quite the opposite. They think that bats are unholy creatures and should be avoided at all costs, and would never dream of carrying a piece of one as a talisman.
Wedding Superstitions: If a single woman sleeps with a piece of wedding cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband.
Wedding Superstitions: On the Eve of St. Agnes (on the night before January 21) take a row of pins and pull them out, one after the other. Then stick a pin in your sleeve and you will dream of the one you will marry.
Wedding Superstitions: The New Moon.-This ceremony must be practiced on the first night of the new moon. Open wide the windows of your bedroom and sit down on the windowsill, gazing with unblinking eyes at the moon, and at the same time repeating softly and slowly the following incantation: “All hail, Selene, all hail to thee! I prithee, good moon, reveal to me this night to whom I’ll wedded be.” During the night you will dream of your future husband.
In sweden
it is said that if you pick seven different flowers on Midsummer Day and then you’ll put them under your pillow you will dream about who’s you are going to marry
I remember an old one about dreams…
Friday dreamt
Saturday told
Will come true
No matter how old
/me shudders at some of the weird dreams she has had on Friday night’s and posted on Saturday
I’ve heard that one in a different form - “if you tell someone your dreams they wont come true”. For some reason when I was younger I thought that if I didnt tell someone about a dream it would come true, which was quite worrying when I had nightmares!
Another one: crossing someone on the stairs is bad luck
Well I think this fits this topic,
if you wish someone Good luck in sweden, you can say “I hold my thumb(s) for you”
I try to break away from illusions forged pits of an ilogical mind, but then I always tell myself, “anything can happen…” But, can’t it only happen to you if you believe in it that much?
As far as my superstitions go, I split poles, open umbrellas inside, and do just about anything else to mock superstitions, but I can’t help from the occasional ‘knock-on-wood’ or ‘spit-on-the-broom’ (if a broom touches your foot you’ll go to jail) procedures. And, I can’t say that I don’t still possess a luck rabbit’s foot from years ago .
Im not superstitius , at least not to the regular stuff.
But when I play pool for instance I hate to get a to easy shot , Ill just miss.Off course it shouldnt be that way , but it is , I belive it is because Im a bit “superstitius”
Meh, I throw salt over my shouler when I spill it.
Breaking a chain letter is said to be bad luck.
Actually, our students seemed to have gotten a chain letter. 3 of them gave a letter to me. I don’t plan on resending them though. I’m not really superstitious at all but for some reason I thought I would rather see what bad things could happen to me than the good if anything would happen at all.
One bad thing has happened to me so far since I got that. In class today, I put my hand over a table so that I could lean my weight over it. I didn’t see though that there was a thumbtack where I was going to place my hand. Unfortunately, I already put my weight on my arm as I let it down the thumbtack. The thumbtack didn’t just prick my palm… it went straight through the skin. When I lifted my hand to see what happened I saw that half of the thumbtack had pierced through my skin. I had to pull it out of my hand after that.
One thing of note though was the letter said that the ‘bad luck’ shouldn’t happen until 4 days you received the letter without continuing the chain.
Okay, one more that I actually believe in–when my palm itches I believe I’ll be getting money. Actually, I am as of yet to be proven wrong of this…
Okay, one more that I actually believe in–when my palm itches I believe I’ll be getting money. Actually, I am as of yet to be proven wrong of this…
I can’t remember which hand it is, but i was always told if one palm itches it’s money coming in and if the other one does… it’s money going out
If the palm of your right hand is itchy, then it foretells that money is coming to you, but don’t scratch it as that stops the money from coming! If it’s your left palm that is itchy, then scratch away, as that means that you’ll soon be paying out money
That’s exactly what I’ve been told about itchy palms Magnus. I didn’t know to not scratch it though…
here’s one:
never let a knife’s tip, of any kind, point towards anyone. It means death will come their way.
I’m so guilty of moving everyone’s knife at the table when I see it pointing towards someone. And when we go out to dinner with other people, I break a sweat.
What is superstition? It is a conditioned response to experience in which either the cause has been misidentified or for which the rational justification has been forgotten and the response hs been ritualized.
At the back of all superstitious behavior lies some rational thought based upon someone’s original experience. Attempting to rediscover it however, is guaranteed to frustrate.
Eoghan