Whats the weirdest superstition you have heard?!?!?!?!?

Question

Like dont walk under a ladder etc and explain why??

Answer 1

When you spill salt you have to throw it over your shoulder

Answer 2

It's unlucky to give a knife as a present - I suppose the idea is that it will cut the receiver or cut the friendship. If someone gives you a knife you should always give them a coin - any value- in return.

Putting new boots on a table is also bad luck - I have heard that it either means you will not outlast the boots, or that you will have to go a long way before you can rest them again.

The old custom/superstition of putting coins on a corpse's eyes (or in its mouth) was so that the dead person's soul would be able to pay the ferryman who rows souls across the river to the Underworld (Greek/Roman mythology).

Also - don't pass someone on a staircase; if you drop a knife and it lands blade down you will soon meet your future husband; cravings in pregnancy for sweet food means you'll have a girl; if you make a mistake when reading aloud you MUST finish the sentence before correcting yourself; lighting a cigarette from a candle makes a sailor drown at sea; and you must always break the bottom of your egg shell when you finish eating a boiled egg - or witches go to sea in them and brew up storms!

Answer 3

At 15 or 16 I used to earn pocket money as a delivery boy for a florist, which occasionally brought me into contact with undertakers (morticians) in the florist's shop. One of them told me that undertakers are extremely careful what they say in the presence of the recently deceased, the belief being that the sense of hearing outlasts death by hours or even days. Highly unlikely, I know, but magnificently bizarre (how could such an idea have arisen in the first place?), and it gave me quite a scare - perhaps that's just what the undertaker meant to do! I have never come across this superstition from any other personal or printed source.

Answer 4

When i went to college, There was one room that was often used for exams. It had two entrances, one in the very back -- leading to the big hallway where the students would usually enter, and one in the front leading to the back offices where the professor would enter.
I had a superstition that I will do better on the exam if I walk in through the "professor" entrance right in front of the auditorium, not in the back.
I guess that was a "power" thing, i felt more like a professor, i.e. more smart when doing it.

I surprised 2 or 3 proctors by doing that too!

Answer 5

it incredibly is unlucky to grant a knife as a contemporary - i think the belief is that it's going to decrease the receiver or decrease the friendship. If somebody factors a knife you need to constantly provide them a coin - any fee- in return. putting new boots on a table is likewise undesirable success - I relatively have heard that it the two means you will no longer out survive the boots, or which you will ought to circulate a protracted way until eventually you could now relax them lower back. The previous custom/superstition of putting money on a corpse's eyes (or in its mouth) grow to be so as that the lifeless guy or woman's soul could be waiting to pay the ferryman who rows souls around the river to the Underworld (Greek/Roman mythology). additionally - do no longer bypass somebody on a staircase; in case you drop a knife and it lands blade down you will quickly meet your destiny husband; cravings in being pregnant for candy food means you would be wanting a woman; in case you're making a mistake whilst analyzing aloud you need to end the sentence until eventually now correcting your self; lighting fixtures a cigarette from a candle makes a sailor drown at sea; and you need to constantly destroy the backside of your egg shell once you end ingesting a boiled egg - or witches circulate to sea in them and brew up storms!

Answer 6

Triskaidekaphobia. Its the fear of the number 13. Tris (3) kai (and) deka (10) phobia - fear (of something.) Just a little history lesson - The reason 13 is unlucky, and Friday is considered a very unlucky day (Friday the 13th - STAY HOME) is because that at the Last Supper of Jesus and His twelve diciples, there were 13 people present; and Judas Iscariot , the one who betrayed Jesus, is considered to be the 13th person at the dinner. And Friday is unlucky because Friday was the day the Passover (Sabbath) meal was the Last Supper with Jesus.

Answer 7

Ah. Me old Irish mum was the queen of superstition. The weirdest she ever told me was that if you got married on a Friday you'd have bad luck. She was right! 27 years later, I'm still with Mr.bad luck!

Answer 8

i come from a fishing background and most of my relatives would enter a house by either the front or back door and they would also leave by the door they had entered the house by, even though they were standing next to a open door, they would walk through the house and leave by the way they came,
I have two reasons for this and one is that it brings bad luck and also i heard that in days gone by houses were built with only a front door and this was to prevent evil spirits from passing through your house as when they entered the house they had to turn around and leave, i am unsure what this has to do with us getting bad luck, but it was my grandmother who told me these reasons and unfortunately her memory has faded, so thats as much info as i can tell you.
Although i did not enter the fishing industry i still find myself following this superstition

Answer 9

Don't step on the crack or else you'll break your mama's back. Kids say this a lot, and I was a kid once. Avoided the sidewalk cracks like the plague, but eventually just stopped noticing. My mama's back has never been broken, but in defense of the superstition, they are just kids.

Answer 10

Don't shake hand when you are in the room and the other man outside the room, a superstition mentioned to me by my Russian friend

Answer 11

The one about magpies being unlucky. One for sorrow, two for joy etc. Its just an old rhyme for heavens sakes! Nevertheless, whenever I see a lone magpie, I salute it. If there are people around I pretend to scratch my head...