tell me some superstitions.............i just wanted to know it out of curiosity...........the one who gives the most number of superstitions will get 10 points
2006-09-07 23:41:13 · 13 answers · asked by Janani . 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Category Animal Superstitions
Subcategory: Dogs
A dog eating grass - rain
Meeting a dog - good luck (especially Dalmatians)
A greyhound with a white spot on its forehead - good fortune
Being followed by a strange dog - bad luck (especially black dogs)
The spectral black dog (barguest) - a harbinger of death
A dog howling for no reason - unseen spirits
A dog howling three times - A death has occurred
At one time a dog that had bitten someone was immediately destroyed to protect the person from rabies (even if the dog was healthy)
Subcategory: Horses
Horse brasses were used to protect horses from witches
White horses - ill fortune
Inhaling a horses breath - cure for whooping cough
Eating a hair from a horse's forelock - cure for worms
Horses standing with their backs to a hedge - rain
Changing a horse's name - very bad luck
Subcategory: Albatross
An albatross flying around a ship in mid ocean - bad weather
Thought to be the spirit of dead mariners and so bringing bad luck to those who killed them
Subcategory: Adder
To see an adder - general bad luck
To kill an adder - general good luck
A live adder on the doorstep - a death in the household
Subcategory: Ant
Believed to be the final earthly incarnation of fairies
Believed to be the souls of children who had died unbaptised
Believed to be the transmuted souls of the Druids who refused to accept Christianity
Subcategory: Badger
Carrying a badgers tooth - Good luck (especially for gamblers)
Subcategory: Bats
In a church during a wedding ceremony - bad omen
In the house - either a death or a sign that the humans will soon be leaving
Flying close to a person - that person will be betrayed
Flying vertically upwards then dropping back to earth - 'The Witches Hour Has Come'
Flying early in the evening - good weather
Chinese belief - Bats are a symbol of long life and happiness
Subcategory: Bear
Believed to gain sustenance from sucking on their own paws.
Ghost bears are believed to reside at Worcester Cathedral and The Tower of London in England
Naming a bear - provokes attack
Subcategory: Bees
If a bee enters your home, it's a sign that you will soon have a visitor. If you kill the bee, you will have bad luck, or the visitor will be unpleasant.
A bee landing on someone's hand is believed to foretell money to come, while if the bee settles on someone's head it means that person will rise to greatness.
Bees were once considered to deliberately sting those who swore in front of them, and also to attack an adulterer or unchaste person.
It was once held to be a sure sign that a girl was a virgin if she could walk through a swarm of bees without being stung.
An old country tradition states that bees should not be purchased for money, as bought bees will never prosper.
Bee-stings were once thought to prevent rheumatism, and in some places a bee-sting was also thought to cure it.
Subcategory: Beetle
Ancient Egyptian belief - Scarab revered as a symbol of the Sun God Ra
Walking over a person's shoe - an omen of death
Crawling out of a discarded shoe - ill omen
Devil's coach horse beetle raising it's tail - a curse
African belief - throwing beetles into a lake produces rain
A dead beetle tied around the neck - cure for whooping cough
Subcategory: Birds
A bird that flies into a house, foretells an important message.
The white bird foretells death.
A bird call from the north means tragedy; from the south is good for crops; from the west is good luck; from the east, good love.
If a bird poops on your car, it is good luck.
If bird droppings land on your head it is good luck.
Subcategory: Blackbird
Ancient British Belief - A messenger of the dead
Two blackbirds sitting together - good omen
Subcategory: Boar
A manifestation of the Devil
Norse belief - A traditional food of the Gods
Subcategory: Bull
Bull's testes - aphrodisiac
To hide in a bull's pen - immunity from lightning
Subcategory: Butterfly
If the first butterfly you see in the year is white, you will have good luck all year
Represents the souls of unbaptised children
Inside the house - good luck
First butterfly of the season (white) - good omen
First butterfly of the season (brown) - misfortune
To see three butterflies together - bad omen
To see a butterfly at night - approaching death
Scottish belief - red butterflies are manifestations of witches
Subcategory: Calf
If the first calf born during the winter is white, the winter will be a bad one.
To stroke a calf on the back - bad luck to both the person and the animal
Twin calves - bad luck
Giving mistletoe as a gift to the first calf of the year - good luck to the herd
Subcategory: Cat
A kitten born in May - a witches cat
A black cat crossing your path - good luck (A white cat in USA, Spain and Belgium)
A black cat seen from behind - a bad omen
Stray tortoise shell cat - bad omen
Cats bought with money will never be good mousers
Cat sneezing once - rain
Cat sneezing three times - the family will catch a cold
USA belief - A cat washing on the doorstep - the clergy will visit
Killing a cat - sacrificing your soul to the Devil
Kicking a cat - Rheumatism
A cat sneezing is a good omen for everyone who hears it. - Italian superstition
It is bad luck to see a white cat at night
Dreaming of white cat means good luck
When you see a one-eyed cat, spit on your thumb, stamp it in the palm of your hand, and make a wish. The wish will come true.
If a cat washes behind its ears, it will rain. - English superstition
A cat sleeping with all four paws tucked under means cold weather ahead. - English superstition
English schoolchildren believe seeing a white cat on the way to school is sure to bring trouble. To avert bad luck, they must either spit, or turn around completely and make the sign of the cross.
A black cat crossing one's path by moonlight means death in an epidemic. - Irish superstition
A strange black cat on your porch brings prosperity. - Scottish superstition
It is bad luck to cross a stream carrying a cat. - French superstition
A cat on top of a tombstone meant certainly that the soul of the departed buried was possessed by the devil. Two cats seen fighting near a dying person, or on the grave shortly after a funeral, are really the Devil and an Angel fighting for possession of
To see a white cat on the road is lucky.
To kill a cat brings seventeen years of bad luck. - Irish superstition
If cats desert a house, illness will always reign there. - English superstition
In Normandy, seeing a tortoiseshell foretells death by accident.
In the Netherlands, cats were not allowed in rooms where private family discussions were going on. The Dutch believed that cats would definitely spread gossips around the town.
When moving to a new home, always put the cat through the window instead of the door, so that it will not leave.
In the early 16th century, a visitor to an English home would always kiss the family cat.
When the pupil of a cat's eye broadens, there will be rain. - Welsh superstition
In 16th century Italy, it was believed that if a black cat lay on the bed of a sick man, he would die. But there's also a belief that a cat will not remain in the house where someone is about to die. Therefore, if the family cat refuses to stay indoors,
Subcategory: Cattle
Cattle were highly regarded by the Celts, and nn some areas it is thought that cattle should be informed of any deaths in their owners' household, or the cows, sensing that something was wrong, would sicken and probably die.
In mediaeval times it was thought that cattle would kneel at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve; and some people thought they were even able to speak that night, although it was considered dangerous for any human to hear their speech as misfortune w
Subcategory: Cockerel
White cockerel - good luck
Black cockerel - evil spirits
A cockerel standing in a doorway - a visitor
It is believed that the cockerels will all crow on final day to awaken the dead
Subcategory: Cows
If a plow kills a daddy long legs the cows will go dry
If you see nine cows in a shed with a gray bull next to the door, and all of them lie on the same side, you are in luck, because you will be granted one wish.
A cow lowing after midnight - approaching death
To milk a cow being sent to market - bad luck
Sprinkling the cowshed floor with primroses - a guard against witches
Cows lying down in a field - rain
Subcategory: Cricket
A cricket is a lucky house spirit that takes it's luck away when it leaves.
A cricket can tell of oncoming rain, death, and x-lovers.
Subcategory: Crow
One's bad, Two's luck, Three's health, Four's wealth, Five's sickness, Six is death.
A messenger of the gods
A familiar of the traditional witch
Harbingers of death and disaster
Subcategory: Cuckoo
First sound of a cuckoo in spring coming from the right - good luck
First sound of a cuckoo in spring coming from the left - bad luck
Hearing the first cuckoo on the 28th of April - Excellent luck
Hearing the first cuckoo on the 6th of April or after midsummer - bad luck
Your condition on hearing the first cuckoo will remain all year
Subcategory: Daddy Long Legs
If a plow kills a daddy long legs the cows will go dry.
"When I was a kid on a farm in Ohio, somewhere we were told when we picked up a Daddy Long Legs to ask it "Where are the cows?" and it would point (with it's feelers) in the direction of the cows. I remember thinking this usually worked!"
Subcategory: Dolphins
Dolphins are believed to transport the souls of the dead to the afterlife
Dolphins playing in fine weather or close to the shore - Wind
Subcategory: Donkey
Placing three hairs from a donkey's shoulders in a muslin bag worn around the neck - cure for whooping cough or measles
Sitting backwards on a donkey - cure for snakebites and toothache
A pregnant woman seeing a donkey - the child will grow wise and well behaved
Subcategory: Dove
Miners seeing a dove - bad omen
A dove circling above - an omen of death
Killing a dove - misfortune
Subcategory: Dragonfly
Catching a dragonfly - marriage within the year
Subcategory: Duck
Laying dark brown eggs - bad omen
Flapping its wings while swimming - rain
Subcategory: Eagle
Strength, divinity and immortality
Christian belief - symbol of resurrection
Several eagles flying together - peace
Eagles sitting motionless - an enemy approaching
Eagle egg eaten by two people - protection against witchcraft
Hearing the cry of an eagle - omen of death
Subcategory: Elephants
In Siam, white elephants were rare and not made to work for their upkeep, so a White Elephant is an item that is a non profit expense. Considering the value of space in our homes, items kept as memorabilia could be considered White Elephants.
Subcategory: Ferret
Drinking milk from a bowl from which a ferret has drunk - cure for whooping cough
Subcategory: Fish
Throw back the first fish you catch then you'll be lucky the whole day fishing.
It's bad luck to get married when the fish aren't biting, according to the custom of some fisherfolk.
A fish should always be eaten from the head toward the tail.
Dream of fish: someone you know is pregnant.
If you count the number of fish you caught, you will catch no more that day.
It's bad luck to say the word "pig" while fishing at sea.
Burning fish bones - unlucky
Subcategory: Flea
Suddenly leaving a body who was infested - death of the host
Flea bite on the hand - a kiss or good news
Person leaping over the midsummer bonfire - riddance of fleas
Subcategory: Fox
Seeing a lone fox - good luck
Seeing several foxes together - bad luck
Subcategory: Frogs
Frogs, like toads, were once thought to have peculiar properties, and were frequently used in healing charms, and in others of a slightly less innocent nature.
The dried body of a frog worn in a silk bag around the neck prevented epilepsy and other fits.
Frogs were used in love-magic. In one story, a girl, whose lover was untrue stuck pins all over a living frog and then buried it. The young man suffered extreme pains and eventually returned to her. She dug up the frog and removed the pins, after which t
A frog brings good luck to the house it enters.
Believed to be the souls of dead children
Shiny skinned - fine weather
Dull skinned - rain
Frogspawn at the edge of a pond - storms
Touching a frog - infertility
Killing a frog - bad luck
Subcategory: Gnat
When allowed into a sick room - removal of ailments
Flying close to the ground - rain
Flying high - good weather
Subcategory: Goat
Associated with Pan (or the devil in some religions)
Meeting a goat when on an important journey - good luck
Meeting a black goat on a bridle path - treasure hidden nearby
Subcategory: Goose
Goose eaten on Michelmas day - good luck
Brown tinted meat - mild winter
White meat - harsh winter
Geese leaving a farm - omen of a fire
A goose laying two eggs - bad omen
Subcategory: Guinea Fowl
Generally good luck
Brings sunshine
Subcategory: Hares
Good Luck.
A guise of a witch
Crossing your path - omen of disaster
Dreaming of hares - bad omen or death
Seeing a brown hare - good luck
Carrying a hare's foot - good luck
Killing a hare - bad luck
Rubbing hare's blood into the skin - cure for freckles
Subcategory: Hedgehog
Another witches guise
Killing a hedgehog - protection against bad luck
Entering the house - very bad omen
Subcategory: Hens
A hen which crows is considered to be unlucky, as is a hen with tail-feathers like those of a rooster.
Hens which roost in the morning are said to be foretelling a death, usually that of the farmer or someone in his household.
A hen which enters the house is an omen that a visitor will arrive, and this is also the case if a rooster crows near the door or comes inside.
Subcategory: Heron
Seeing a heron near the house - bad luck
Killing a heron - extremely bad luck
Subcategory: Jackdaw
A jackdaw settling on the house - an omen of death
In some cultures, a jackdaw on the roof - a new arrival
Seeing one jackdaw - bad omen
Subcategory: Horseshoes
A circular ring made from an iron horseshoe nail gives the same protection against evil as the horseshoe itself.
The horseshoe or crescent moon shape was seen as a sign of good fortune and fertility.
Witches fear horses, so they are also turned away by a door with a horseshoe mounted on it. The horseshoe must be hung with the points up to keep the luck from spilling out.
Subcategory: Jaybirds
Jaybirds go down to the devil's house on Fridays to tell all the bad things that have happened during the week. Jaybirds who remain on Friday are checking up on what people are doing.
Subcategory: Kingfisher
Greek legend
Christian Legend
Seeing a kingfisher - good luck
Wearing kingfisher feathers - promotes the beauty of a woman by magic
Subcategory: Ladybird (Ladybug)
Landing on you - very good luck
Landing on your hand - Good weather
Number of spots - number of happy months ahead
Direction after it leaves your person - the direction from which your future love will come
Subcategory: Lamb
First lamb of spring (black) - good omen
First lambs of spring (twin white) - excellent fortune
Subcategory: Lapwing (Pewit)
The call of the lapwing - 'bewitched bewitched'
Seeing a lapwing - bad omen
Subcategory: Lark
Eating three larks' eggs - improvement of voice
Disturbing a lark's peace or nest - curse
Pointing at a lark - a whitlow will appear on the finger
Subcategory: Magpie
Seeing a single magpie - bad luck
A single magpie circling the house - portent of death
Greeting a magpie is said to remove the bad omens it brings
A single magpie on a roof - the building will never fall down
Chattering in a tree near a house - arrival of a stranger
Chinese belief - a magpie is good luck and shouls never be killed
Subcategory: Martin
Nesting in a house - good luck to the household
Harming a Martin or its eggs - dire misfortune
Subcategory: Mole
Sudden arrival of molehills in a garden - someone will leave, or death
More molehills than usual - bad weather
Subcategory: Mosquito
Same omens as the gnat (When allowed into a sick room - removal of ailments, Flying close to the ground - rain, Flying high - good weather)
Subcategory: Moth
A big black moth in the house means a deceased one is just visiting reincarnated through that moth.
In the house - arrival of an important letter
Subcategory: Mouse
If somebody throws away a dead mouse, the wind will soon start to blow from that direction.
Subcategory: Muskrat
Building it's home clear of the water - heavy rains
Constructing the home with thin walls - mild winter
Subcategory: Nightingale
Heard singing before the cuckoo - Success in love
Subcategory: Nightjar (Whippoorwill)
Heard after dark - premonition of death
First call in spring - A wish made will come true
Subcategory: Owl
The ancient Greeks revered owls and believed them sacred to Athena. Affiliated with the goddess of wisdom and learning, the owl was considered wise and kind.
hearing the hoot of an owl is now associated with bad luck. To counter evil owl power put irons in your fire. Or throw salt, hot peppers or vinegar into the fire, the owl will get a sore tongue, hoot no more, and no one close to you will be in trouble.
When you hear an owl, to prevent bad luck, take off your clothes, turn them inside out and put them back on.
Any man who eats roasted owl will be obedient and a slave to his wife.
Looking into an owl's nest - sadness for life
Heard hooting by a pregnant woman - baby is a girl
If an owl lands on the roof of your house, it is an omen of death. Constant hooting near your house also foretells death.
If an owl hoots at the moment of childbirth, the child will have an unhappy life.
The Irish believe that if an owl flies into a house it must be killed immediately. If it escapes, it will take the luck of the house with it.
If an owl nests in an abandoned house, then the dwelling must be haunted. An owl is the only creature that can abide a ghost.
By eating salted owl, a person can be cured of gout.
If an owl hoots during a burial service, the deceased is bound to rise from the grave and haunt the living.
An owl living in the attic of a house will cause a pregnant woman to miscarry.
Subcategory: Oyster
Oysters should only be eaten in months with an R in them
Aphrodisiac properties (dating back to Roman times)
Carrying an oyster shell - good luck
Subcategory: Peacocks
A peacock feather has an evil eye at the end. Argus, the Greek legend, says a hundred eyed monster was turned into a peacock with all it's eyes in it's tail.
Revered by Hindus as sacred
Greek mythology - tail consists of the eyes of the giant 'Argus'
Peacock feathers indoors - bad luck
Hearing a peacock cry - storms approaching
Subcategory: Pigs
To get rid of warts involves rubbing a peeled apple and giving it to a pig.
Crossing your path - unlucky
Running with straw in its mouth - storms approaching
Driving pigs indoors On Beltane morning - good omen
Subcategory: Porpoise
Harbinger of good luck
Seen swimming north - fine weather
Seen swimming south - bad weather
Subcategory: Rabbits
Passing in front of you - good luck
Passing behind you - bad luck
Running down a street - a house will catch fire
Keeping a rabbit's foot - good luck
Because of the rabbit's ability to reproduce, the rabbit's foot became a symbol of fertility.
Rabbits were linked with darkness, witches and the devil because they live underground.
By owning a rabbit's foot as a talisman, you would have vital connections with many powerful forces.
A left rabbit hind foot, carried in the left pocket after having been removed from a rabbit that was killed during a full moon by a cross-eyed person is truly lucky. The foot is considered a powerful charm against evil because the rabbit's strong hind le
Actors may keep a rabbit's foot in their makeup cases for good luck, and will have misfortune if they lose it.
In Wales an old belief is that a new-born child rubbed all over with a rabbit's foot will be lucky for life.
Subcategory: Rat
Most relate to the rat's association with death
It is believed that rats can predict death
Rats leaving a ship - the ship will sink
Rats seen boarding a ship - lucky
A rat leaving a house - A death is imminent
A sudden arrival of rats in a house - the occupants will move soon, or (in Scotland) an occupant will come into money
An increase in numbers - an omen of war
Subcategory: Ravens
To kill a raven is to harm the spirit of King Arthur who visits the world in the form of a raven.
Seen near a sick person - no recovery
Welsh belief - A raven on a chimney is good luck to those within
Ravens leaving The Tower of London - The United Kingdom will fall
Flying towards the sun - fine weather
Subcategory: Robins
A wish made on the first robin of spring will be granted.
A robin entering the house was a sign of a death in the family.
Killing a robin - extremely bad luck
Causing a robin injury - a similar injury to the perpetrator
Entering a house or church - omen of death
Subcategory: Roosters
Roosters have long been connected with the sun, as they crow to herald its arrival at dawn, and are considered watchful protectors of humankind.
When a cock crows at midnight a spirit is passing
In England it is a death omen if a rooster crows three times between sunset and midnight. Crowing at other times is often a warning against misfortune.
If a cock crows while perched on a gate, or at nightfall, the next day will be rainy.
A white rooster is considered very lucky, and should not be killed as it protects the farm on which it lives
Black roosters are a bad omen, often associated with sacrifice.
Subcategory: Seagulls
Three seagulls flying together, directly overhead, are a warning of death soon to come.
Killing a seagull - bad luck
Seen far inland - bad weather
Subcategory: Sheep
A shepherd counting his flock - bad luck
Sitting still on the grass - fine weather
Walking about and bleating - bad weather
Subcategory: Snake
Hanging a snake skin from the rafters - protection from fire
Crossing your path - unlucky
Carrying a snake skin - protection against illness
Carrying a snake's tooth - protection against fever and luck in gambling
Wearing an emerald - protection against snake bites
Subcategory: Sparrows
Sparrows carry the souls of the dead, it's unlucky to kill one.
Believed to embody the souls of the dead
Killing a sparrow - the tree it lived in will die
Hearing a sparrow call – rain
Subcategory: Spiders
It is unlucky to kill spiders because a spider spun a web over baby Jesus to hide him from Herod.
A spider with syrup cures fever.
Seeing a spider run down a web in the afternoon means you'll take a trip.
You'll meet a new friend if you run into a web.
A spider is a repellent against plague when worn around the neck in a walnut shell.
Killing a spider - very bad luck
Seen running over clothes - a new set of clothes
Finding a spider in the morning - Sorrow
Finding a spider at midday - Anxiety
Finding a spider in the evening - Loss
Killing a spider - Bad Luck
A spider spinning in the morning - Good Luck
A spider climbing its thread - Good News
A spider dropping on its thread - Good Luck
Finding a spider on your body - Good Fortune
Seeing a spider cross a wall - Good Luck
A spider's web on a doorway - A Visitor
A spider on your clothes – Money
Arcane is said to be the missing 13th sign of the zodiac based on 13 lunar months. Arcane is associated with psychic abilities, weaving and women.
Subcategory: Sow Bugs
A Texas superstition says that a bag filled with 13 sow bugs tied around a child's neck will cure the child from the thrash, or sores in the mouth.
Subcategory: Storks
Storks deliver babies.
Storks were sacred to Venus in Roman mythology.
If a stork builds a nest on your roof, you have received a blessing and a promise of never ending love from Venus. Aristotle made killing a stork a crime, and Romans passed a stork law, saying that children must care for their elderly parents.
Killing a stork - bad luck
Building a nest on the roof - good omen
Seeing two storks - omen of pregnancy
Subcategory: Swallow
Herald of the summer
Killing a swallow - bad luck
Nesting on the roof - protection especially against lightning and fire
Storms will accompany the arrival and departure of swallows
Subcategory: Swans
A swan's feather, sewed into the husband's pillow, will ensure fidelity.
Subcategory: Toad
If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning nothing worse will happen to you all day.
Crossing the path of a bride on the way to the church - prosperous and happy union
Seeing a toad - end of drought or good fortune
Thought to be the familiars of witches
Killing a toad - rainstorms
Carrying a dried toad - protection against plague
Handling toads - causes warts
Subcategory: Tortoise
Killing a tortoise - bad luck
Wearing a tortoiseshell bracelet - protection against evil
Subcategory: Wasp
Killing the first wasp of the season - good luck
Subcategory: Vulture
Seeing a vulture - omen of death
Subcategory: Weasel
Seeing a weasel - bad luck
Keeping money in a weasel skin purse - financial security
Subcategory: Wolf
During the middle ages, wolves were ascribed magical powers and wolf parts became an important part of many early pharmacies. Powered wolf liver was used to ease birth pains. A wolf's right paw, tied around ones throat, was believed to ease the swelling
It was widely believed that a horse that stepped in a wolf print would be crippled
The gaze of a wolf was once thought to cause blindness
The breath of the wolf could cook meat.
It was believed that Wolves sharpened their teeth before hunting
Dead wolves were buried at a village entrance to keep out other wolves (some farmers continue to shoot predators and hang them on fence posts to repel other predators.)
Travelers were warned about perils of walking through lonely stretches of woods, and stone shelters were built to protect them from attacks. Our modern word "loophole" is derived from the European term "loup hole," or wolf hole, a spy hole in shelters
Seeing a wolf - dumbness
Subcategory: Wren
Harming a wren - broken bone
Category Bad Luck superstitions
Bad Luck: Friday the Thirteenth - The Scandinavian's believed that the number 13 was unlucky due to the mythological 12 demigods being joined by a 13th, an evil one, who brought misfortune upon humans. It was also said that Christ was crucified on Friday and the number of guests at the party of the Last Supper was 13, with the 13th guest being Judas, the traitor.
Bad Luck: Walking under a ladder - A leaning ladder forms a triangle with the wall and ground. Triangles represent the Holy Trinity, and violating the Trinity by breaking it (walking through it) would put you in league with the devil himself.
Bad Luck: Black Cats - In ancient Egypt, the Goddess Bast was a black, female cat. Christians, wanting to rid society of all traces of other religions, convinced the ignorant that black cats were demons in disguise and should thus be destroyed. In the process, they also destroyed the kindly ladies who cared for the cats, believing them to be witches. Being demons, a black cat crossing your path would create a barrier of evil, cutting you off from God and blocking the entrance to heaven.
Bad Luck: Spilling Salt - Salt used to be an expensive commodity used mainly for medicinal purposes. For this reason, spillage was to be avoided at all costs. The idea that it is unlucky to do so probably stems from the belief that Judas spilt salt during the last supper. Throwing spilt salt over the left shoulder is linked to its medicinal use. If it could not be administered, the next best thing was to throw it into the eye of the evil spirits that brought sickness upon us. These spirits were thought to lurk behind your shoulder, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Bad Luck: A bat flying into the house
Bad Luck: An owl hooting 3 times
Bad Luck: 3 butterflies together
Bad Luck: Looking at the new moon over your left shoulder
Bad Luck: A 5-leaf clover
Bad Luck: Breaking a glass while proposing a toast
Bad Luck: Putting a shirt on inside out
Bad Luck: Red and white flowers together
Bad Luck: Hearing a rooster crow at night
Bad Luck: Cutting your nails on a Friday
Bad Luck: Putting a hat on a bed
Bad Luck: Getting out of bed left foot first
Bad Luck: Violets blooming out of season
Bad Luck: A picture falling
Bad Luck: Breaking a mirror
Bad Luck: Singing before breakfast
Bad Luck: Opening an umbrella indoors
Bad Luck: Giving away a wedding present
Bad Luck: Stepping on cracks in the sidewalk
Bad Luck: An itch inside your nose
Bad Luck: Crossed knives
Bad Luck: seeing an owl during daylight
Bad Luck: If a dog suddenly barks for no apparent reason in a house that has a sick person then
Bad Luck: You must wear new clothes at Easter or you will have bad luck
Bad Luck: There will be an argument if knifes are crossed at a table. Also, if a lover gives you a
Bad Luck: Breaking a mirror means 7 years of bad luck, unless you take the pieces outside & bury them in moonlight. Also, an undisturbed mirror in a house suddenly fall & smashes then it means that there will soon be a death.
Bad Luck: Unless you were born in October, the wearing of an Opal will be ill-fated
Bad Luck: If pepper is spilt, then you will have a serious argument with a friend.
Bad Luck: Sparrows are said to carry the souls of the deceased to the after-life. To kill one means that you will be cursed.
Bad Luck: It is extremely unlucky to open an umbrella inside a house.
Bad Luck: If a groom drops the ring during the ceremony then the marriage is doomed to failure.
Bad Luck: Breaking a plate, especially if it had not already been cracked.
Bad Luck: To see the new moon for the first time through glass. Upon seeing the new moon you should turn whatever silver you have in your pockets or handbag, and thus ensure prosperity for a month.
Bad Luck: To upset pepper
Bad Luck: The blossom must never be cut from the tree and brought into the house before May 1, or ill fortune will attend you.
Bad Luck: Never mend a garment while you are wearing it, or misfortune will follow.
Bad Luck: Breaking a mirror portends seven years of bad luck. It is also extremely unlucky to receive a mirror as a present
Bad Luck: To make a present of a knife or any other sharp instrument unless you receive something in exchange.
Bad Luck: Walking under a ladder, unless you cross their fingers while doing so.
Bad Luck: It brings ill fortune if a lease or any contract is signed in the months of April, July, or November.
Bad Luck: To spill ink threatens worry, annoyance, and the failure of a project that is on foot.
Bad Luck: Crossing two table-knives by accident portends bad luck.
Bad Luck: To give a pair of gloves to a friend unless you receive something in exchange.
Bad Luck: To encounter a gravedigger coming towards you. Usually this means there will be a severe illness.
Bad Luck: For those who completely rake out a fire before retiring. A few embers should always be left.
Bad Luck: To break a glass bottle portends misfortune
Bad Luck: If you fasten a button into the wrong buttonhole
Bad Luck: if a candle falls over
Bad Luck: For a golfer to borrow your partners umbrella
Bad Luck: Throwing stones into the sea cause bad luck
Bad Luck: Starting a cruise on a Friday
Bad Luck: Stepping on board a ship with your left foot
Bad Luck: To open an umbrella in the house
Bad Luck: It is unlucky to sit on a table unless one foot is touching the ground
Bad Luck: If a person stumbles when leaving his house at the beginning of a journey, or trips or stumbles more than once during the course of the journey, it is advisable to postpone it.
Bad Luck: To pass anyone on the staircase.
Bad Luck: New shoes should never be left on a table
Bad Luck: To put on the left shoe before the right, and it is worse still to put the right shoe on the left foot, or vice versa.
Bad Luck: Spilling salt. If both salt and pepper are spilt at the same time, the force of this ill omen is doubled.
Category Christmas Superstitions
A Yule Log must not be bought and must be kept burning all night.
Christmas candles should be left burning until Christmas morning and should rest undisturbed from time of lighting until they are snuffed.
Look to the shadows cast by those gathered round the fire on Christmas night -- if any of these shades appears to lack a head that person will die within the year.
Difficulty lighting the fire on Christmas Day is particularly unwelcome, as this presages a bad year ahead.
Christmas cakes were usually eaten on Christmas Eve in the 19th century, though it was deemed most unlucky to cut into one (or any Christmas food) before that day dawned. A portion also had to be preserved until Christmas Day itself.
As many mince pies as you sample at different houses during the festive season, so you will have happy months in the year to come. Mince pies must not be cut, however, lest you cut your luck. None must be eaten before Christmas Eve nor after Twelfth Night.
If Christmas pudding is on the menu, then all present must take part in stirring it if the household is to prosper. Traditionally, one has to stir the mixture at least three times, seeing the bottom of the pot each time. Even tiny babies take their turn, with parents guiding a little one's hand on the spoon. Unmarried girls who forget to give the pudding its requisite stirs might as well forget about finding a husband in the upcoming year.
It's customary to make a wish while stirring Christmas pudding. Such wishes are kept secret until they come true - to speak them to anyone else jinxes them.
When making Christmas pudding, drop into a silver coin, a thimble, and a ring. He who is served the coin finds luck, he who retrieves the thimble brings himself prosperity, and he who comes up with the ring hastens a wedding in his family.
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.
The doors of a home used to be flung open at midnight on Christmas Eve to let out any trapped evil spirits.
A Christmas candle left burning in the window all night guarantees the household's good luck in the coming year. If the candles goes out, it is bad luck.
The first member of the household to open the door on Christmas morning might well shout, Welcome, Old Father Christmas! to the empty street. In other homes, one might be expected to sweep the threshold with a broom to clear it of trouble.
Particularly good fortune will attach to the household if the first visitor on Christmas happens to be a dark-haired man. The arrival of a red-haired man is a bad omen, and it's utter catastrophe if the first foot is a woman.
First foots (the first Christmas visitor to your house) who bring evergreens (especially holly) or coal are prized for their thoughtfulness. When the first foot is a man, he should be welcomed with a drink and perhaps a bit to eat. A boy, however, should be given a coin or two. First foots often kiss all the women in the house.
It is very unlucky to send Christmas carolers away empty-handed, no matter how badly they sing. One could be a king in disguise. Offer food, a drink, or a bit of money.
Singing Christmas carols at any time other than during the festive season is unlucky.
Contrary to popular belief, wassailing has nothing to do with singing Christmas carols at people's houses and then getting drunk with them. Wassailing is the custom of honoring one's livestock and crops during the Christmas season in hope that this salute will increase yield in the coming year. Toasts are drunk to corn, cows, and fruit trees. Celebratory fires are lit in fields and cider drunk in barns and orchards while men shoot guns into the air to scare off evil spirits. A plum pudding might well be stuck on a cow's horn and the beast frightened into running until it tosses the pudding -- if the pudding falls forward, a good harvest is predicted, but if it falls backwards, the harvest will be poor.
In parts of Scotland at Christmas time, ale is poured into the waves to entice the deep to yield up her fishes in the coming year.
Stockings are hung by the chimney at Christmas, in remembrance of the largesse of St. Nicholas. Out of compassion he was said to have tossed three coins down the chimney of the home of three poor sisters. Each coin fell neatly into stockings left drying by the hearth. We therefore leave our stocking out in hopes that a similar bit of good fortune will befall us.
Dogs that howl on Christmas Eve will go mad before the end of the year.
It is unlucky to do any unnecessary work on Christmas Day. This day is deemed too holy for ordinary work.
Those born on Christmas day will never encounter a ghost, nor will they have anything to fear from spirits. They are also protected against death by drowning or hanging.
Mistletoe is considered lucky to hang in the house at Christmas. Mistletoe is not allowed to be used as a church decoration because it is associated with paganism.
It is good luck to kiss under the mistletoe. It is bad luck to deliberately to avoid doing this.
Take three leaves of holly and on them prick the initials of three of your admirers. On Christmas Eve place the leaves under your pillow, and it is said that the one whom you will marry will appear to you in a dream.
Sew nine holly-leaves on to your nighttime clothing, borrow a wedding ring and place it on the third finger of your left hand, and then go to bed. During the night, your future husband will appear to you in a vision.
Make a chain of holly, mistletoe and juniper, and tie an acorn between each link. You need to have 2 other girls to assist you. At midnight on Christmas Eve the 3 of you must go into a room where a fire is lit, lock the door, hang the key over the mantelpiece and open the window wide. Then wrap the chain, which you have made around a log and sprinkle it with oil, a few pinches of salt and some earth. The log and chain must be placed on the fire and all lights turned out. Each girl sits around the fire with a prayer-book upon her knees, opened at the marriage service. As soon as the chain has been burnt, it is said that each girl will see the vision of her future husband crossing the room. If such a vision does not appear to a girl, she will never marry; or if she sees a phantom, such as a skeleton, which causes fear, it is also taken to be a sign that she will remain a spinster.
Tie a sprig of holly to each leg of your bedstead, and before you go to bed eat a roasted apple. Your future partner in marriage will come and speak to you in your dreams.
The yule log should be lit by a piece of the log used on the previous Christmas. Once that is done, no evil spirit can then enter into the house. The remains of the Yule log were also considered lucky, and would be a protection against lightning or fire.
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2016-03-17 10:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by Gail 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't walk under a ladder
don't let a black cat cross u
any relationship started on fri the 13 is doomed
what ever direction a lady bug(u flicked) flys u can find your ideal mate
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2006-09-08 13:51:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad luck if:
You walk under a ladder
Have your path crossed by a black cat
put your shoes on a table
Go out a different door you came in
2006-09-07 23:56:48 · answer #6 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
-if a grasshopper flies on to you, then there's a good event that's going to happen soon
- if a lizard falls on the right side of your body, you will do well in whatever endeavour you're setting out for
-if a crow makes that gurgling sort of cry outside your house (signifies the arrival of guests),
-if the palm of your right hand itches, you're going to get money, if it's the left, you're going to have to shell it out.
-if your nose or eye twitch, then someone is thinking of you.
2006-09-08 00:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by srirambm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't walk under a ladder
don't spill salt
don't hold a horseshoe upside down
don't walk the path of a black cat
don't break a mirror
don't step on a rack
If someone sneezes they will die if you don't say god bless you
2006-09-07 23:48:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
dont walk under a ladder
black cats are bad luck
if you break a mirror then u have 7 years of bad luck
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2006-09-07 23:44:03 · answer #9 · answered by misery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-08 00:34:31 · answer #10 · answered by man of ape 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-07 23:44:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋