just like when the silverware fall and with the old saying someone is coming as a visitor, a spoon for a woman and a fork for a guy. or perhaps when a mirror broke and it will relates to 7 years bad luck, unless you throw it with the water flowing like a river then it will not come true?
just curious if others believe that there is a truth to it..
2006-10-08 14:18:13 · 7 answers · asked by salome 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
My Mother was raised a Scot and is a christian but also has many beliefs from the old religion, as do many Gaels. We were brought up with supertstition and "signs."
The closest I come to this is the logic of the old sayings like:
A stitch in time saves nine.
Empty vessels make most noise.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Faint heart never won a fair lady.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Don't sink the ship for a halfpennies worth of tar.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Charity begins at home.
As for things like gloves left on a table suspending ones wedding for seven years and spilling salt to be bad luck, I think, are just social reminders to good ettiquette and thrift (although as a highly logical person, because of my upbringing, I still throw salt over my left shoulder, for good luck, if I have spilled some salt. LOL.
2006-10-08 15:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by kellring 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is one that says "if you start the day by biting the head off a frog the rest of the day will be much better." I can believe that even though I don't know anyone who tested it.
2006-10-08 21:21:34 · answer #2 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe in the myth of Atlantis
2006-10-08 21:20:31 · answer #3 · answered by jtracer48 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The only 1 I believe in is, "What goes around comes around".
2006-10-08 21:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Walk under a ladder and you can fall on your head and get hurt. It has happened. Ladders usually have workers on them with tools. Don't mess around with ladders walk around them. I have known too many to get hurt.
2006-10-08 21:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by Nevada Pokerqueen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe in knocking on wood.
2006-10-08 21:23:25 · answer #6 · answered by madeira 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They all fall under the relm of truth or they would not be a myth............
2006-10-08 21:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋